In WordPress JetEngine Forms you can create forms. When a user submits it, where does the data go? In GravityForms, you can edit a form and see a list of all submissions so far. Does JetEngine honestly lack that? Can't find it in the docs; can't find them in the DB either.
As a workaround you can auto-create a post of the (JetEngine) custom post type (i.e.) "form submission".
First set up the custom post type. Make sure to exclude it from the search. You can set it to private too, but then it doesn't appear in the forms dropdown anymore where we're gonna need it. (You can make the CPT public first, then set up the action, and make the CPT private afterwards. The association in the action's dropdown still stands, albeit now the dropdown value is empty … Seems a bit buggy and dangerous to do it that way)
Create a Meta Field for each form field.
Then edit the form and, next to "Send mail" or whatever your primary submit action is, add another action which is to "Insert/Update Post". Choose the CPT and map the form fields to the meta fields.
It's a bit cumbersome because of this redundant field management … But it's doable.
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Right now I am using the ultimate member plugin to register users. But the company asked me to change the form and allow users to insert their education qualifications in a table when registering. Users need to have a button that has the ability to insert more rows (If they have more qualifications).
As far as I know, I can't use the Ultimate Member plugin for that. I searched for many table plugins but didn't find anything that can do this task. I once had done this using code. But I don't know how to apply it to this registration form. If anyone can figure out a way to embed the code to Ultimate member (to save that table data) or any plugin that can do this, please let me know soon as possible.
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I have tried that shortcode and got confused as it ruined the page. Now I'm trying a PHP method to solve this problem.
Thank You
Well you have many options to solve this problem. What you are actually looking for is Custom Fields.
WordPress has the ability to allow post authors to assign custom fields to a post. This arbitrary extra information is known as metadata.
Now, custom fields can be created in 2 ways.
Either you write php code in a plugin/theme
Or you you install plugin which helps you build custom fields.
What you are actually looking for is to create Repeatable Field Groups. These are the field which can be replicated. As many as you want.
Some plugins which provide facility to add them in no particular order are:
Advanced Custom Fields - Repeater Field : https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/repeater/
Toolset - Repetable Field Group : https://toolset.com/course-lesson/creating-and-displaying-repeatable-field-groups/
Metabox - Meta Box Group : https://metabox.io/plugins/meta-box-group/
They all will give you ability to create repeater fields.
Repeater field can be made for both users and posts or Custom Post Types(CPT). You need them for Users. I am not sure which one of them allows you to create repeater field for Users but you can check on there website.
PS : These are all paid plugins. (They may have free version of them but repeater field comes with PRO).
Once you have created a field for users you can use that field in your registration form.
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As the question author wants to add the field using PHP, the field can be added as so.
After looking at all the hooks available to the user by UM (Ultimate Member) plugin. I found two hook that can be used to add fields and save in the backend.
um_after_form : Some actions after register form fields.
add_action( 'um_after_form', 'my_after_form', 10, 1 );
function my_after_form( $args ) {
// add your repetable fields here.
}
um_after_save_registration_details : Action on user registration after save details. This runs after the form is submited and user is registered. Use this to save data inside the user database.
add_action( 'um_after_save_registration_details', 'my_after_save_registration_details', 10, 2 );
function my_after_save_registration_details( $user_id, $submitted ) {
// Save field here.
// You have user_id and submitted data, do your thing here.
}
i am building a wordpress website for a client. i need to build 1 template type of page with a list of fields that the client can fill in to populate the page. so lets say i build a template page called Person Template. On it i have an empty picture placeholder on the left and an empty Name Field below that. On the right i have an empty "persons phone number" and "Persons email" field.
what i need to create somehow is a system that the client can enter these 4 items into wp-admin somewhere and save that as a new Person. Then they can repeat and save another Person until they have created say 100 Person pages.
How do I do this? I tried building a Custom Post Type called Person CPT. I have built a Page called Person Template. I have built some "Person CPT" posts and put them on a page but i dont know how to create the Entry Fields page for my client to use.
You're correct that you'll need to use a custom post type. To add the fields you have two options:
Add the fields using add_meta_box(). You'll then need to save this data as post meta. Then in your single-person.php template you would retrieve the meta using get_post_meta(). It's a tad cumbersome, as you need to write the markup for the meta box, hook it into an action to add it to the admin page, and verify the content before it's saved. Here's an article that walks you through it
Alternatively get yourself the Advanced Custom Fields plugin: it makes adding additional fields very quick and easy. I use it all the time.
Here's my scenario: I have a drupal 7 site. It's categorized by a taxonomy. Each taxonomy term is panelized to display its main page. For each of those pages, I want to add a webform that would allow the visitor to email the person responsible for that area. The responsible person is defined in a hidden field on the taxonomy term.
If I add custom content to the panelizer page with the token
%taxonomy_term:field-generic-email-address
the email address is displayed. However, I need to get that into the webform, and I can't get it to pull the value from the token - it just displays that exact text (I'm trying to add it to a hidden field, but I'm sticking it into the body just to see, and in either place, it shows the token text instead of replacing it with the email). Does anyone know how to do this?
You might want to check out a module called EntityForm https://drupal.org/project/entityform
It allows you to use regular Drupal fields to build a user-submittable form.
There are other ways to do this, but this method may allow you to get what you want and more.
I am having trouble finding sources of information or example code for a creating a custom module (or any means) to edit the node edit/insert pages.
I am trying to create a Flickr Integration for a node. The Flickr API is not an issue and i can resolve those, it's the Drupal API issues i could use some help or resources of information on.
Here is what i am trying to achive.
User attempts to add or edit a node
User inserts a keyword into a field and presses a button (Get Photos)
Flickr API returns and displays a few images
User clicks on an image and the URL of the image is then added to an input field
on node save or node update a field such as $node->flickrImage[0][value] is updated with the URL selected in 4.
the variable is the available when ever the node is rendered.
I'm not quite sure how to achieve this - I simply need some example code of modifying the node edit/insert pages and I think I can work the rest out.
Please Help!
Thanks,
Shadi
It looks for me, that you can write own CCK field type, so that you can add this to desired content type and process user's input & work with flickr API.
this way, it's easier to manage this field and control it, plus it will be automatically added to node edit/create forms, node loads, etc.
This article might help http://www.lullabot.com/articles/creating-custom-cck-fields
Second way, is to use hook_form_alter
function module_form_alter(&$form, &$form_state, $form_id) {
if ($form_id == 'product_node_form') {
//do smth
}
}
In this case, form_id you want to change, will be {content_type}_node_form.
there you can add your field, and process it on
hook_nodeapi
Here is a link for node edit form alter solution ..
http://drupal.org/node/101092
I need a help displaying a specific View result in a page which the user created it.
story...
"User X has created a Page called My Store and UserX has products which was created in custom Content Item."
Now how do I show this UserX's products in his My Store page?
I have already made a view called User_Store_View, I added a Page Display and on Page Settings:Path, the value was "node/%".. now I guess my problem is on the Arguments?
The path should be something like my-store and it should have an argument of user id. Given your requirements I think setting the default behaviour for the argument being invalid or not being supplied to an empty result set would be the most sensible(I think the default is show all). That may be all you really need.
However, if your product is a type that you've created yourself you will need to do some behind the scenes wiring to expose all your fields to Views; it's almost always better to build a content type using CCK so it's already hooked up to Views. And D7 is a different beast in this regard, with fields part of core and whatnot, so I can't help you out there.