Passing a parameter to a form?

#1 / Nov 04, 2010 6:16pm

soopafly
5 posts

Hello,
I’m developing a site for a training center and have run into a wall.

Each class has about three dates that a user can inquire about by clicking on a “Learn more” button, which will take them to a form where they can fill out. What I want is a single form with a “subject line” that will change depending on where they clicked in from. So for example, if the user clicks on button for the December 5th class, s/he would be taken to a form with one of the fields pre-populated with something that read “I am inquiring about the December 5th class”

I’m planning on using FreeForm if that matters.

Any help would be great! Thanks!

#2 / Nov 04, 2010 11:44pm

soopafly

5 posts

Thanks for the reply!! I’ve tried exactly what you wrote and cannot get it to work. I cannot get the class title passed on to the form. Here are the parts of interest in my code:

This is the link TO the form FROM the class page

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="class-detail" disable="member_data|pagination|trackbacks" limit="1" url_title="{segment_2}"}
<div class="reserve">
    <span>{location}</span>
    <a href="http://{site_url}training-classes/request-more-information/">Reserve class</a>
</div><!-- #reserve -->
{/exp:weblog:entries}

“Reserve class” is the link to the form.

And here is the form page:

{exp:freeform:form
        required="phone|company|email"
        collection="Class Info Request"
        return="/contact-us/thank-you"
        form:class="contact-us" 
        notify="[email protected]"
        send_user_email="yes"
        template="contact-class"
        user_email_template="contact-class-user"
    }
    <label for="name">Inquiring About</label>
    <input type="text" name="subject" value="{cf_class_subject}" id="subject" />

I guess I’m just confused on where {cf_class_subject} is pulling from

#4 / Nov 12, 2010 8:53am

the3mus1can

426 posts

On the class details page you will need to pass the url_title for the class in the url that links to the form page. Note that segment_3 contains the url_title.

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="class-detail" disable="member_data|pagination|trackbacks" limit="1" url_title="{segment_2}"}
<div class="reserve">
    <span>{location}</span>
    <a href="http://{site_url}training-classes/request-more-information/{url_tilte}/">Reserve class</a>
</div><!-- #reserve -->
{/exp:weblog:entries}

On the form page you will need to get the url_title out of the url and use it to look up that class’s entry. Note we are passing segment_3 to the weblog entries loop in the url_title parameter.

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="class-detail" disable="member_data|pagination|trackbacks" limit="1" url_title="{segment_3}"}
{exp:freeform:form
        required="phone|company|email"
        collection="Class Info Request"
        return="/contact-us/thank-you"
        form:class="contact-us" 
        notify="[email protected]"
        send_user_email="yes"
        template="contact-class"
        user_email_template="contact-class-user"
    }
    <label for="name">Inquiring About</label>
    <input type="text" name="subject" value="{cf_class_subject}" id="subject" /> 
{/exp:freeform:form}
{/exp:weblog:entries}

The form needs to be wrapped in a weblog entries loop. The {cf_class_subject} represents the field in your weblog entry that holds the value of the class subject. I did not know the structure of the your weblog fields so I had to make up a field name. So substitute the tag for the field that holds the class subject in the entry whatever it is called.

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