[solved] Use standard PHP form processing rather than Eform?

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sunwukung Reply #1, 16 years, 11 months ago

Well, I guess the title is pretty self explanatory. Is it possible to use a custom PHP form snippet instead of eForm? i.e.

if (isset($_POST['submit'])){
$response = validate($_POST);
}

if (!isset($_POST['submit'])||(!empty($response))){

  //display the form and any errors}

elseif(isset($_POST['submit'])&&(empty($response))){

    //mail the form
}

Or is eForm (or other module) usage mandatory?

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Garry Nutting Reply #2, 16 years, 11 months ago

You can process your forms anyway you want - with or without eForm.

If you don’t want to use eForm: just create your form on a MODx page, place your processing code into a snippet and call the snippet on the page where the form is so that it can process any postbacks from the form. Simple really

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sunwukung Reply #3, 16 years, 11 months ago

Hmm, that’s promising!

Perhaps you can help me understand what’s going wrong here?

<?php
var_dump($_POST);

if (!isset($_POST['submit'])){
  echo"<form action='' method='post'>
  <label for='name'>Name:</label>
  <input type='text' name='name'>
  <textarea name='message'></textarea>
  <input type='submit' name='submit' value='submit'>
  </form>";
}else{
  echo 'Form recieved';
}
?>

This code works as a standard PHP page, but not when I try and include it as a snippet. It’s only a test form, but in principle it should display the contents of the $_POST array - at least an empty associative array.

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bunk58 Reply #4, 16 years, 11 months ago

Works for me

Use the code as the content of a snippet named Whatever
Call your snippet on the page like this [!Whatever!]

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sunwukung Reply #5, 16 years, 11 months ago

a-Ha! I was calling the snippet like this:

[[contact_form]]

I was calling it with the caching tags... DOH!

Thanks for your patience everyone - blush...

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bunk58 Reply #6, 16 years, 11 months ago

We’ve all done it.