Simple initial value for a text field using eForm

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pbm Reply #1, 15 years, 2 months ago

All I want is an initial value in the field - so I don’t have to use an external label. Purely for style, but for whatever reason value="" is not working when using eForm. I don’t need dynamic entries, just a simple value in the field, so the user knows what to type in each box.

Curious, what am I missing here?

<p> <input type="text" name="email" size="38" maxlength="38" eform="Your Email Address:email:1" value="Enter your email address" /></p>

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pbm Reply #2, 15 years, 2 months ago

Any help here?
Seems like it should be simple. huh

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Eoler Reply #3, 15 years, 2 months ago

Quote from: pbm at Feb 20, 2009, 06:29 AM

All I want is an initial value in the field - so I don’t have to use an external label. Purely for style, but for whatever reason value="" is not working when using eForm. I don’t need dynamic entries, just a simple value in the field, so the user knows what to type in each box.

Form template:

<input ... value="[+fieldname_default+]" />

efOnBeforeParseEvent:

global $modx;
 $postback = (count($_POST)>0 && $fields['formid'] == $modx->event->params['formid']) ? true : false;
 if (!$postback) {
  $fields['fieldname_default'] = "fieldname default value";
 }

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TobyL Reply #4, 15 years, 2 months ago

Check what version of eForm you are using and download the latest version if needed. Default values should be honoured by eForm.

eForm | eForm support | eForm @ wiki

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pbm Reply #5, 15 years, 2 months ago

I do have 1.4.4.5 installed.

Eol. I’ll give your suggestion a try, where would the code "global $modx...." go exactly?

I attempted to put the code into eform.inc.php - yet still no initial values will appear in the text fields. *shakes head*

Thanks for the help so far, but I’m still totally lost on how something this simple is so difficult.

? eform.inc.php

global $modx;
 $postback = (count($_POST)>0 && $fields['formid'] == $modx->event->params['formid']) ? true : false;
 if (!$postback) {
  $fields['name'] = "Please enter your full name";
 }

? In my chunk

    <div class="medium">
    <p> <input type="text" name="name" value="[+fieldname_default+]" size="34"  eform="Your Name::1:Expected at least two words:#REGEX /^\w+\s\w+/i" /></p>
    </div>

Net HTML result:

<form method="post" action="index.php?id=7">
    <input type="hidden" name="formid"  value="contactform" />
    
    <div class="medium">
    <p> <input type="text" name="name" size="34"  value="" /></p>
    </div>

    <div class="medium">
    <p> <input type="text" name="email" size="34"  value="" /></p>
    </div>

    <div class="medium">    
    <p><input type="text" name="department" size="34"  value="" /></p>
    </div>
    
    <div id="message"">
    <p><textarea cols="74" rows="11" name="comments" ></textarea></p>

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TobyL Reply #6, 15 years, 2 months ago

As I said... upgrade to the latest version should help, 1.4.4.6 was released specifically to address your problem (and some others)

# eForm now retains default values for check boxes and radio buttons
# text input fields now retain default value set in form template
# ...

http://modxcms.com/eForm-1003.html

p.s. The version numbering of the files was stupidly not updated correctly in this version so don’t be fooled by that

eForm | eForm support | eForm @ wiki

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pbm Reply #7, 15 years, 2 months ago

Hey thanks! I’ll go get the lastest rev. and see if that does the trick!

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pbm Reply #8, 15 years, 2 months ago

Thanks everyone!
It was indeed a version problem. 1.4.4.6 is now installed and appears to have solved the issue.