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Just can’t get it to work. The catch is, the form is in an entry and I use allow_ee to show form in template. I want the form to report what URL it has been submitted from. Any suggestions?

create a hidden field in the form and populate the value with the URI.

<input type="hidden" name="page_uri" value="{segment_1}/{segment_2}/{segment_3}" />

don’t use the name URI as it is already used by the system. Let me know if it doesn’t work.

EDIT:

I speculate that if you create a freeform field called URI, it will automatically be populated since the form has a URI hidden input. I will try that.

Hi, I tried the URI field and it just posts as blank. And I tried the hidden line and is doesn’t parse {segment_1}, {segment_2}, etc. Maybe because I have the form within the entry. Any way to get the URI to send with the notification e-mail. I still want to get the segment tag to work thought because for the return URI needs to be based on the URI. IE: http://www.site.com/product1/thank_you_page/

May I ask why you have the form in an entry? I may be able to help you with an alternative if I understand the overall goal.

Well the site is for a company with several locations. Each location has it’s own “site” under the domain. Something like http://www.site.com/store1 and www.site.com/store2. So I’ve managed to make each location dynamically populate the different pages with the correct info using 1 template. That was a challenge by itself because I’m not using the Pages module to get links like http://www.site.com/store3/products/product1 etc. Everything is currently controlled with a series of weblogs. The each page is a different entry in the weblog. The page containing the form is an entry and the form works but I need it to dynamically populate a hidden field to let me know what store location the form was submitted from. I also need to send the user to a return page relative to the location site. I probably want to CC the store manager so I need to look into the store weblog and get that info.

The page already looks into the stores weblog to show other information such as phone numbers and whatnot. I do stuff like {exp:weblog:entries weblog="locations"}{phone_number}{/exp:weblog:entries}

Hmm….wonder if I could just open the weblog at the beginning of the entry, then use the url_title tag in the freeform tag. Will try when I get back from lunch. I’ll let you know.

Got it working. Thanks!

Hmm….wonder if I could just open the weblog at the beginning of the entry, then use the url_title tag in the freeform tag.

You can use {exp:weblog:entries ...} as many times you want on a page. I do the same thing.

I wrap my HTML-header include with it so I can pass the page title to it. something like this:

{assign_variable:css='<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" href="/css/css.css" />'}
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="rsvp" show_future_entries="yes" show_expired="yes" limit="1"}
{embed="includes/header" title_tag="{title} - RSVP - {site_name}" extra_css='{css}'}
{/exp:weblog:entries}

...

Just make sure you have limit=1 otherwise you get it many times.

Regarding the form,

if all stores have similar fields, you could have the form in a template, then the page will embed the form and pass the {url_title} to it. Then you can use PHP and whatever you need with those forms.

If all stores have a different form, you could still have the form on a separate template. Then you add a Custom Field in the weblog entry called “Form Fields”. Then enter content in it like this:

text:visitor_name:Your Name
text:visitor_phone:Your Phone
text:visitor_address:Your Address
textarea:description:Enter a Description

then in the form template use PHP to explode the line breaks, then again explode the (:) so you get an array of form field arrays.

<?php
/* PHP parse = input */ 

global $FNS, $TMPL;

$form_fields_raw = explode("\n", $TMPL->embed_vars['embed:form_fields']);

$form_fields = array();

foreach ($form_fields_raw as $raw)
{
    $form_fields[] = explode(":", $raw);
}
?>
{exp:freeform:form form_name="STORE_<?=$TMPL->embed_vars['embed:url_title']?>"}
    <input type="hidden" name="page_uri" value="<?=$FNS->fetch_current_uri()?>" >
    
    <? foreach($form_fields as $field): ?>
    
    <? if ($field[0] == 'text'): ?>

    <label><?=$field[2]?></label>

    <input type="text" name="<?=$field[1]?>" value="" size="40" />

    <? elseif ($field[0] == 'textarea'): ?>

    <label><?=$field[2]?></label>

    <textarea name="<?=$field[1]?>" cols="60" rows="8"></textarea>

    <? endif; ?>
    
    <? endforeach; ?>

{/exp:freeform:form}

Good stuff to know. I’m bookmarking this page for future reference. But I got the forms acting right now with something like this in the webblog entry.

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="stores"}
<h1>Contact Form</h1>

Contact <em>{contact_name}</em> at {company_name} today for your next purchase.
<b>Call Now: {contact_phone}</b>

{exp:freeform:form form_name="contact_us" return="{url_title}/form_submitted/" template="contact_us" required="nameFirst|nameLast|email|zip|phoneDay"}
<input type="hidden" name="store" value="{company_name}" />
    <fieldset>
        <legend>Contact Us</legend>
            
            <label for="nameFirst">First Name</label>

            <input name="nameFirst" id="nameFirst" type="text" size="25" class="" value="" maxlength="">
            

            
            <label for="nameLast">Last Name</label>

            <input name="nameLast" id="nameLast" type="text" size="25" class="" value="" maxlength="">
            
            
            
            <label for="email">E-Mail Address</label>
            <input name="email" id="email" type="text" size="25" class="" value="" maxlength="">
            
        
        
        <label for="street">Street Address</label>

        <input name="street" id="street" type="text" size="25" class="" value="" maxlength="">
        
        
        
        <label for="city">City</label>
        <input name="city" id="city" type="text" size="25" class="" value="" maxlength="">
        
        
        
        <label for="state">State</label>

        <input name="state" id="state" type="text" size="25" class="" value="" maxlength="">
        
        
        
        <label for="zip">Zip*</label>
        <input name="zip" id="zip" type="text" size="25" class="" value="" maxlength="">
        
        
        
        <label for="phoneDay">Phone</label>

        <input name="phoneDay" id="phoneDay" type="text" size="25" class="" value="" maxlength="">
        

    </fieldset>

    Please click "Submit" below & someone from our office will contact you shortly.

    
    <input name="submitForm" type="submit" value="Submit" class="button">
     
{/exp:freeform:form}
{/exp:weblog:entries}