Visforms Subscription 5.6.1

New Features​

• Form configuration: Advanced caching protection

Bug Fixes​

• Fixed: The input field for the Visforms Captcha is automatically focused in the UI framework ‘None’.
• Fixed: Missing space between custom CSS classes for input field and standard CSS classes for input field.
• Fixed: Records in the _save table are displayed as checked out.

Improvements​

Code Refactoring:​

• Joomla 6 ready

New Features​

• Form configuration: Set the color for required field text and asterisks via configuration
• Provide a dedicated Visforms CSS class to hide fields
• PHP 8.4 compatibility

Bug Fixes​

• Fixed: Custom error message for date field results in JavaScript error
• Fixed: hCaptcha validation always returns invalid when performed from an untrusted server IP.
• Fixed: Invalid label-for attribute in hCaptcha and reCaptcha labels
• Fixed: Bootstrap 5 layout: The label layout is shifted when a label icon is used and the label text is hidden.

Improvements​

Code Refactoring:​

• Completed PHP code refactoring to address all Joomla 6 deprecated features.
• Revision of the file structure:
  • Focus: All Visforms PHP classes are in the Visforms namespace
• Started revising of the JavaScript code in the administration:
  • Focus: Inserting JavaScript solely via Joomla web assets.
  • Remove the use of HTML event attributes.

New features​

• Added the Text and Hidden field types as additional permitted types for placeholders in email addresses in the form configuration.
• Email Logging: New form option for each email type to separately activate implicit email logging.
• Inspector: All essential Visforms log files integrated for direct viewing in the inspector.

Bug Fixes​

• Fixed: Fatal Error: Failed to open administrator/components/com_visforms/helpers/visFieldPluginHelper.php
• Fixed: Selecting the Custom Text Position does not work correctly for some field types.
• Fixed: Some frontend search options do not work as expected.
• Fixed: Form Layout None: The accordion form is involuntarily submitted when the accordion area is closed.

Improvements​

• Form Configuration: Multi-Page Form:
  • Button Alignment: Added a note about confusing missing button text.
  • Changed default option label text to Mixed Alignment with Arrows and No Text.
  • Added online help description.

Code Refactoring:​

• Accessibility: Added aria-readonly attribute to pseudo-read-only fields.
• Focus on the first field does not work if the first field is of the field type Radio, Checkbox Group, Field Separator, or Calculation.
• If the Set Focus on First Fieldoption is enabled:
  • Ensure that focus is set to the first field in which the user can enter data.
  • Explicitly consider all read-only fields.
• Make the sorting direction in sorting list boxes easier to recognize visually with arrows.
• Started revising the PHP code with regard to all Joomla 6 deprecated functions.
• Started revising the JavaScript code:
  • Focus: Inserting JavaScript solely via Joomla Web Assets.
  • Remove the use of HTML event attributes.

Bugfixes​

• Quotation marks in placeholder not working
• Custom error message in fieldtype tel not working

New form options​

• Spam protection: Integration of the H-Captcha service

New field options​

• Complete refactoring of the field configuration layout
• Create your own PHP validation error message that is displayed when user input is recognized as incorrect in the server-side validation.

This is the first stable release of Visforms 5. Visforms 5 is the first Visforms version that is natively fully compatible with Joomla 5. In addition, numerous new features that were suggested in the forum have been implemented.

New Feature​

• New option Label Icon Class: Allow to add an icon to the field label.
• New option Add Honeypot Field: Allow to add a honeypot field to the form as additional spam-protection.
• New option Display as list: Replace the placeholder of select-fields with values as option list.
• Mail configuration: New Options Mail CC and Mail BCC for recipient Mail.
• New field-type Phone.

Improvements​

• Complete Review in regard to current WAI Standards (Web Accessibility Initiative).
• Include visIcons CSS in all Frontend Data Views.
• Add Support for tmpl Query parameter to all Links and Redirect URLs in Visforms Views
• Add alt attribute to captcha image

Bugfixes

• Administration: Fast switch listbox for menu selection is displayed as text field on server
• Hiding conditional fields is not work properly, if a readonly listbox is the trigger field
• Administration: Fields view: Limit listbox is not displayed as the right most item in search bar

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New Feature​

• Placeholder: Added new format parameter: Display options as list

Bugfixes​

• HTML rendering: Invalide Bootstrap HTML nested elements: row > row

Improvements​

• Improvements in regard to security

New Feature​

• Joomla 5 Compatibility
• Inspector: PHP and MySql system check

Improvements​

• Fix some still existing PHP 8.2 deprecated warnings
• Make sure new Visforms module has default layout selected
• Improved testing of system requirements on installation/update
• Improved logging during installation/update