I want to generate a PDF letter using some fields e.g. name, nationality etc. that the user will submit using a form on a WordPress website. The letter has a certain template and only these fields change depending on the input.
Without much detail in the question or knowledge of access to code (API) in Wordpress, you could use an API like TCPDF
Via JetPack perhaps?
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i have something planned and i don't really know how and what kind of technologies i can use for it.
I want to create a website where I can use a CMS system or manually create a template. I make this template available to the user and he can change or edit content in it. For example, if I define a div that takes 20% of the page. Then the user can color the whole thing with a color code. Or if I define an H1, then the user can insert a title there. At the end he can export the whole thing as PDF.
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I create a contact form with many fields. The customer can fill in everything, e. g. address, telephone number . . . he sends this form and I define internally where the fields have to be positioned in a PDF. And especially how the whole thing should look like (CSS). Is that possible?
Is there such a thing already? A plugin for any CMS system like wordpress?
I don't think that the first option will work.
You will need a form that the user will fill in.
You can use WordPress and a form builder plugin, such as Contact Form 7.
Now, regarding the exporting into PDF...do you have any programming knowledge?
If you can work with PHP, then you can use DomPDF library to export all data into a PDF file.
You can also see a similar thread here Exporting form results from Contact form 7 to PDF (fPDF)
If you don't have any PHP knowledge then you will have to google and see if there is a plugin that does what you want. You may have to use a different form builder depending on that plugin.
I want to have a template when people from support group want to add bugs.
Here is an example (https://github.com/photonstorm/phaser/issues/new) in GitHub that I want to implement in Phabricator if possible.
Phabricator supports customizing forms, including the 'create task' form. There are a couple of ways to go about it and they are covered in the documentation.
The simplest way to customize forms is to provide default values in the URL for the links you provide, for example, say you link to the bug submission form from your documentation. You can supply the template text as part of the link itself. This can result in long ugly URLs but that can be masked by using a url shortening service.
I'll use Wikimedia's phabricator as an example of how this works. If you want to make a link to the create task form with your template text pre-filled, you construct a url like the following:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?description=[insert template text here]
The other way to do this, which doesn't require you to store the template text in the url, is to edit the form and specify a default value for the description field. Editing forms is covered in the phabricator upstream documentation so I won't go into that, instead I refer you to the documentation section under the heading creating new forms.
Alfresco simple search field searches on document content and folders as default.
Because I'm thinking of using a tag taxonomy I would like to default the simple search field to only search on tags without using the "TAG:" prefix and exclude content and folders. Content and folders can stay as a search option in Advanced search.
The default query looks like this:
cm:name cm:title cm:description my:authorisedBy
ia:whatEvent ia:descriptionEvent lnk:title
lnk:description TEXT TAG
Can anyone give me an idea how this query can be modified only to search on tags?
I'm going to assume that by "simple search" you're referring to the search box in the header bar displayed in Share. This is rendered by the Aikau widget alfresco/header/SearchBox and provides a number of options for customizations.
I think that your best option is going to be to extend the default widget with your own version and override the generateSearchTerm function. This will allow you to take the term provided (e.g. whatever the user has entered into the search box) and manipulate it with the additional advanced search text before it is used in calls to the search REST APIs.
This old blog post provides and example of extending a widget, however you should use the approach outlined in this blog post to add your custom package (rather than editing surf.xml directly)
I'm completely new to the whole WordPress scene so I kind of don't know the "WordPress way" of doing the desired task:
Create a form where a user would fill in some details (such as name, surname, upload a video or post a youtube iframe link)
Submit it, once it's done - an admin must verify that everything has been filled out correctly and after that the video can be seen on the website.
Should I write a plugin of some sort that would do that or how does it happen?
Thank you.
The Gravity Forms plugin allows you to do exactly what you're looking to do. With it, you can set up a form that creates a post and sets it to be 'Pending Review' in WordPress. This tutorial contains everything you need to know about what you'll need to do.
If you want to create a Custom Post Type (ie. 'User Page') to better separate user submissions, you'll need to employ this special add-on (as mentioned in the tutorial above).
I'm trying to use the value of one custom field on multiple pages and posts. I'm a newbie to PHP and custom fields so what I'm trying to accomplish could possible be done using a different method.
I have a WPMU setup with all new sites created from a default blog that includes multiple custom post type templates. When users create a new site they are redirected to their site admin dashboard.
Here comes my challenge, I want users to be able to enter information into form fields contained in metabox(es) on their admin dashboard (not post editor) that will be used on the various custom post type templates. For example, a user will need to enter their company name, address, logo, etc.
Depending on the temple, the information entered into the form fields will be used on the frontend of the site. For example, the company logo will be display where the custom field or shortcode is placed on the post template.
I'm having issues using custom fields for this because each custom field is specific to each post. In addition, I'm having issues rendering a form on the admin dashboard for this.
I'm also thinking that custom fields may not be the best way to accomplish my objective because they are usually post specific. I'm really asking for a variable that will be used globally and is static unless the user updates the form.
I'd appreciate any assistance on this.
The options API is what you will need for this:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Options_API
There's also some plugins and frameworks you can use to help such as:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/options-framework/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/redux-framework/