Visforms 5.2.0

Date: November 21, 2024
Stability: Beta
Compatibility: PHP 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
System Requirements: Joomla 5

Note: This is a feature release with significant new functionality. Please always test the beta version thoroughly before using it on a production system.

New Feature

  • New form option: Spam protection: Integration of the hCaptcha service.
  • New field option: Store your own PHP validation error message that is displayed when user input is detected as incorrect in the server-side validation.
  • New field option: Complete refactoring of the field configuration layout.

Bugfixes

  • Quotation marks in wildcards do not work.
  • Custom error message in field type Phone does not work.

Improvements

Release Notes

Note: This version is fully compatible with PHP 8.3.

Visforms and Visforms Subscription 5.2.0 - Feature Release for Joomla 5

Today we released Visforms and Visforms Subscription 5.2.0. We received numerous feature requests and improvements via the forum. We are pleased that we were able to implement them with this release.

New features always mean extensive changes to the code. That is why feature releases with many new features are always released as beta versions. We test all changes very thoroughly, but we are the only ones who test them.

Note: We endeavor to fix every reported error as quickly as possible.

Note: If you are interested in one of the new features and are using this Visforms version, please test thoroughly before using this beta version on a productive system.

List of new features in Visforms and Visforms Subscription

New form options:

  • Spam protection: Integration of the hCaptcha service.
  • PDF: In frontend data views, offer several PDF templates for download at the same time.
  • PDF: In success notification, offer several PDF templates for download at the same time.
  • PDF: Send several PDF documents from different PDF templates as email attachments at the same time.
  • New option to control button placement in multi-page Bootstrap 5 forms.
  • New option Reply to email address in user email.

New field options:

  • Complete refactoring of the field configuration layout.
  • Use more data from user profile and custom user fields in more Visforms field types as default values.
  • Deactivate validation individually in the data editing view in the frontend.
  • Store your own PHP validation error message that is displayed when user input is recognized as incorrect in the server-side validation.

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