I've placed a copy of the webform-submission page in my sites theme folder, and am modifying it to display the submissions pages how I would like. At the moment, to print an elements value, I use:
$submission->data[n]['value'][0]
Where data[n] is specific to the element in the webform. Is there any way I can use something more like $submission->data[element_key]['value'][0] to get the field info. It just makes for much easier reading, especially since I won't be the person maintaining the site.
Thanks.
p.s. this is in Drupal 7, webform 3.0
The $usbmission array is built in the function webform_get_submissions.
Notice that the table which contains the element_key data you're looking for (webform_component table) is not queried in this function.
So if you want that data, you would have to fetch the element_key information yourself and rebuild the $submission array in an implementation of hook_webform_submission_load.
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I have a database of different stores.
When a user clicks on a store name, I want an Ajax function to run displaying information about the store in a different div.
Information categories for all stores wll be the same: products carried, location, general information, etc.
I could easily make it so that each different store uses a different file name as an argument to the ajax function, and all files would have the same layout/format but with different data.
However i feel like this is bad form. How can i make it so that i have one fixed template and all that changes is the information specifics imputed into the template?
Please note that the store information display pages will also need to be able to have clickable links of their own (i.e. click on location and a google map pops up).
Is it something to do with XML? I dont know much about it.
Instead of returning a template, return the data.
So it says getstore.php?id=2 which returns a json string
{"name":"my store", "info" :"blah"}
Then you use java script to insert a new div, populated with that data.
I am working on a pair of form fields the directly effect one another. Specifically the problem I am dealing with is that we have thousands of groups users can join on this website that I have been working on. We are creating some administrative analytics forms for the site. Part of those forms is filtering by group.
The problem is that most of the people don't know the name of a group off the top of their heads, only what it starts with. So instead of using auto-complete we came up with two dropdowns. The first contains the options A through Z, letters of the alphabet which the group names begin with. The second dropdown contains all of the groups beginning with the selected letter.
The concept is simple enough and we were able to implement the AJAX pretty easy with jQuery. But this causes validation errors. After some research I found that this has to do with Drupal form caching. The solution is to use the ahah functions.
The problem with that is that all the instructions I have found so far deal with ahah actions for the specified field updating itself, not another field. So I am trying to figure out how to get the list of letters to update the group list using ahah and registering the new values with the form cache.
One solution I found was to simply load all the values on the page in a hidden dropdown and then just load up those in the set in the visible one as needed. But that creates a bunch of problems because the client uses almost exclusively IE and we have seen IE choke when given huge lists like that. Especially with the lists stored in JavaScript. So we need a light-weight solution.
Any thoughts? Ideas?
In a nutshell AHAH works like this:
Form gets generated with an empty $form_state
When an element that has the #ahah property gets changed an ajax call is made to the url specified as path in the #ahah property.
The callback at that url does this:
Retrieves the form from the form cache
Processes the form
Rebuilds the form with a current $form_state so that it can add / change elements based on that
The form is put in the form cache to avoid validation errors
The form is rendered and returned as JSON
Drupal replaces the contents of the wrapper div with the new form.
In your case you'll need to make your form generation function aware of the values selected in $form_state. It would have to:
Generate the letters drop-down
Look into $form_state and see if there is a letter selected. If so, generate the second drop-down based on the selected value.
The callback function would implement the form caching and rebuilding.
There are good explanations with code for the callback function here:
http://drupal.org/node/348475
http://drupal.org/node/331941
I actually got the answer on another StackExchange site. His suggestion to use the example module to come up with the solution worked very well.
Solution found here: https://drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/35048/using-drupal-6s-form-ahah-to-have-one-dropdown-field-update-the-values-of-a-sec
i got a form (using form api and drupal_Get form ) and i got a form with 50 fields and some of them are non frequently chaning data like hobbies, year of birth , city/country etc...
i currently do just them in array in file and put them in #options=>$array ... is that the fastest way to save resources? or should i use taxonomy/variable_set/database query/block/node or whatever?
variable_get/variable_Set : Is generally used to store admin preferences for the site. If these are user specific I don't think it's a good idea to save them using variable_set
taxonomy : Can also be used for populating the values of
drop-downs, that is for options in the listing. In your case create a vocabulary
called hobbies and add
swimming,reading,drupaling as terms.
Then use the content-taxonomy
to use taxonomy terms as drop downs using CCK moudule.
nodes : Anything that is user
specific should go in as nodes. And
any content that can be created by
the users should also go in as nodes.
For administering forms you can use variable_set/variable_get.
But for your task it seems like that users enter their bio, so in this case you should store each form submission to new "row", as you do now for file (wonder why you don't use DB storing).
I know this is not a drupal forum but, as I’m not getting any response there, I decided to give it a shot here.
I’m creating a web site that accepts custom content from users. So, for that matter, this site has a form and a custom module. Instead of using admin theme, this form is placed inside custom template which is created to have a uniform look with the rest of the pages. As a result, creating form elements through hook_form is out of question. Here’s where my problems lie. As this form uses custom theme, I’m not sure as to what can I do to make drupal know that user is submitting new content data when the form is submitted?
Would I need to use same query string that of content submission page of admin page like - ?q=node/add/page for action attribute of the html form?
(OR)
the only way is to map the url to my custom function and invoke some sort of hook inside of it?
Thanks
You can literally create any markup you want for your form, all you need to do is use the #theme attribute when you define the form. With it you can set theme functions for the form itself and any of the elements.
It is a very bad idea, not to use Drupal's FAPI. It solves so many problems for you, and not using it would be the first step to take if you want to open up a security hole in your site. A development framework like Drupal is not of much worth, if you don't use it's APIs.
Edit:
First thing to do, is to go to Drupal's FAPI reference. You can learn almost everything about the FAPI there.
You could use a template if you want, is just basic Drupal theming, but I would advise against it. It would be a lot more maintainable if you created theming functions for all the elements and used that instead, you could just loop through all the elements and render them like Drupal does, instead of having to edit a template file each you need to change the form. It might be a but more work now, but there's a reward to that work: cleaner and more maintainable code.
In code it looks something like this:
$form['item'] = array(
...
'#theme' => 'theme_function',
);
Doing this, the element will be rendered using the "theme_function". You can see an example of such a theme function for textfields.
I'm building a website using Wordpress. The WP-Events plugin is being used to display a list of upcoming events. What I need is for people to be able to confirm their attendance at any particular event.
WP-Events is a bit awkward in that it's customised using a template that is only able to be edited with the Wordpress admin. I used this template in combination with the Wordpress 'Loop' to generate a form for each event that could be filled in and submitted. I then was going to use jquery to toggle the display of each form as to not make the page massive. This plan collapsed when I wasn't able to implement any form validation.
What I have now is a list of events on one page, and a confirmation form on another. What I now need is to pull the event name, date and location from the selected event, and pass them across for use in the form. The problem is that wordpress' permalink structure doesn't seem to allow me to add a variable (ie. example.php?variable=1 ).
It it possible to do this?
thanks in advance,
Greg.
Unless you modified something, out of the box Wordpress will allow you to use GET variables, because it uses them too (for previewing posts).
If you installed something that removed all of the GET parameters, you might want to uninstall that. But out of the box Wordpress will let you use GET parameters.
I have tried both GET and POST with no effect. If you have PHP processing a GET variable on a WP Page, the URL is:
/page/?variable=something
And PHP is not recognizing this at all.
Use add_query_arg function. Codex.