What has Horizon QCMS 5.0 to offer?

Horizon QCMS 5.0 supports real-time version check

Easy upgrade: you can upgrade from any version of Horizon QCMS to 5.0 via upgrade/upgrade.php after you have downloaded version 5.0 from source forge.

Formbuilder offers CAPTCHA protection.

PDF generator: Horzion QCMS 5.0. has a PDF generator.

URL_REWRITE: Horizon QCMS 5.0. fully supports URL_REWRITE on apache webserver

Better protection against SQL injections: Horizion QCMS 5.0 is more secure and better protected against SQL injections. Horizon also loads the navigation menu faster.

MySQLi: Horiozon QCMS fully supports the MySQLi extension

PHP assistant: Horizon QCMS 5.0 has a built-in PHP assistant, works only with PHP 5.2 or higher.

Querybuilder: Horizon QCMS 5.0 has a Querybuilder so that you can create your own customized queries

PHP Plugin creator: Horzion QCMS 5.0 has a PHP Plugin creator

CPanel editor: with Horizon QCMS 5.0 you can rename all the items for the control panel and the user panel so that you can create your own language pack without adjusting the source code of the control panel: all items are loaded dynamically with MySQL.

Formbuilder to CRM: If you use the FormBuilder and a visitor is using your web form, then the information will be sent to you by email, and the information will be stored in the MySQL database so that you can assess it with the CRM module.

Formbuilder to MySQL: formbuilder can also create MySQL tables for you and will create a plugin to access the information stored by Formbuilder, which you can use in your webpages if you want

Members only pages are now hidden from the navigation menu, if you use the MySQLi extension.

CRM tickets: Horizon 5.0 now also offers CRM tickets. You can now send messages directly to your clients.

E-commerce: Horizon QCMS 5.0 fully supports Paypal, you can now sell items on your website with Horizon QCMS on each webpage.

Twitter: Horizon QCMS 5.0 supports twitter

Disk cache: Horizon QCMS 5.0 also offers a disk cache system: if you don't update your website on a regular basis, then you can use the cache system to load your webpages even faster because horizon doesn't have to display a page dynamically.

Simple Gallery: now comes together with JQuery Photobox.

Simple Gallery edit: editing your photo album is now easier than ever.

Newsletter: with Horizon QCMS 5.0 you can now send newsletters to your clients if you use Formbuilder to newsletter.

Improved database framework: it's now faster and more secure.

Check the tutorials on the wiki pages (www.hnqcms.com/wiki)

How to add a form in your website with Horizon?

Go to Site management, Plug-ins, Form builder, if you want to create a web form.

First you have to tell what email address will be used to send the required information:

Then type your thank you message:

Then you need to define the fields that you want to use in your form.

Explanation of the input field:

Label
Label is meant to describe your fields except for the field type radio, checkbox and list. For these types, the label will be used as a value that will be sent with the form.

If you are using a list, then each item must be separated by a semicolon.
Somthing like: United States of America;Canada;Australia;United Kingdom;Japan;China;South Korea;Netherlands

Extra
Extra will be used only for the field-type radio, checkbox and list.

The extra label will be added on the left site of the form as a description.
Field name
Field name is the name of the field in your form.
Field's type will be used to define the type of the field.
Field type
Field type defines your field name. You can choose between:
textfield, textarea, hiddenfield, password, radio, checkbox, list
Required
If you select required than the field in your form is required for the user of your form on your site.
Validation
When you select validation type than the field must be either a valid email address, a valid URL, may only contain numbers or must have a valid date format (m-d-Y) or (d-m-Y).