eForm Events

Looking for some assistance in using eform and a snippet. I’m trying to call an event using eform’s OnBeforeFormMerge. "myTest" is a function in the "formToggle" snippet. Here is the code in my page:



Here is the code in the formToggle snippet. It doesn’t do anything yet because eForm is telling my myTest is an unknown function. It’s the same error you get when you try to run a function from another script which you haven’t included yet in PHP.



Any ideas?

Try with cached snippet call for the event snippet:

[[formToggle]]

No difference, the error is still:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mytest()

edit: if it says ’Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mytest()’, then try renaming the function to my_test() and changing the event param the same.

1. Is the page cached? Try uncaching it.

2. add an echo to myTest function and call it by itself on a page to test it

3. have myTest print_r the $fields

4. try calling formToggle with [!formToggle? !] (add the ? after it)

Arrg! I don’t think I EVER would have thought of caching being the issue. I turned off the ’cachable’ option in ’Page Settings’ and it’s good to go. Thanks.

Ok, next question is, how do I set a placeholder when I’m using eForm? I’m using an event as you can see in the above code, but in my snippet, when i call the setPlaceholder() function, my chunk isn’t reflecting the placeholder. I also need to set more than one placeholder so I think I need to use another strategy other than returning the $modx object but I’m not sure how to do it. Here is the code:

What exactly are you trying to do? Because you might not need to set a placeholder.

In MODx 96, if somethings not working- check the cache, then check ` ? and other input errors. Those 2 things will get it 90% o the time.

I’m trying to set placeholders which contain the HTML to hide/display specific forms on my page. This way I can control which forms are shown or hidden for the error and thank you pages in eForm. It really all stems from a JS effect I’m using on the page which hides and displays forms based on a radio button click.

Not sure what you mean by `?

Not sure what you mean by `?

I think ProWebscape is saying check you are using ` (backticks) and ? (question mark) in your snippet call i.e.

Quote from: bunk58 at Jun 01, 2008, 04:41 PM

I think ProWebscape is saying check you are using ` (backticks) and ? (question mark) in your snippet call i.e.

[[MySnippet? &param=`1`]]

Bunk is correct.

So let me get this straight (im being a dunce today). You have 4 forms. You want the user to:
1. submit the first form
2. check validation per your snippet and show the second form
3. repeat for next forms

Is that correct?