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  le_block Reply #141, 20 years, 2 months ago

  Oups. You’re right. I did forget the &subject=`contact request`. Thanks.
  
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  xwisdom Reply #142, 20 years, 2 months ago

  Hi,
  
  Just to let you know that as of version 2.0 eForm will support a new field tag format as shown below:
  
  in form:
  

  <input type="text" name="firstname" value="#:firstname#" />
  <input type="text" name="lastname" value="#:lastname#" />

  
  in report:
  

  Dear #:firstname# #:lastname#, ...

  
  This tag will replace the [+placeholder+] format but will still be able to parserand render previous forms that makes use of [++].
  
  eFom 2.0 will be compatible with forms designed for version 1.0.
  
  
  
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  Ryan Thrash Reply #143, 20 years, 2 months ago

  And here’s my collected patch as committed into subversion. Note also that it includes a sample tell a friend form chunk and an improved email validator.
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  TobyL Reply #144, 20 years, 2 months ago

  Ehm,... did you really mean to zip up all the svn info as well? Not much use to me besides finding out the svn repository details
  
  Anyway, great patch, thanks!
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  Ryan Thrash Reply #145, 20 years, 2 months ago

  I wondered how it got so darned big! LOL
  
  I’ll fix it later... (maybe)
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  ZAP Reply #146, 20 years, 2 months ago

  This feature doesn’t quite work the way I expected:
  

  &mailselector (Optional)
  Sets the name of the form field to use as a selector to select
  a single email from the comma (,) delimited emails assigned
  the &to parameter. This selector field will act like a numeric
  index to select an email. It will start at 1 for the first email
  and ends at N for the last email in the list.
  
  For example:
  &to =`[email protected],[email protected],[email protected]`
  &mailselector=`topic`
  
  on the web form the topic fields is actually a dropdown menu.
  when the selects a topic from the list the value 1,2 or 3 will
  be sent to eForm which will then be used to select one of the
  three emails assigned to the &to parameter. This email address
  will be the address used to send the email to.

  
  I have a form asking people what they’re contacting us about. If they’re interested in placing an order, I want their message to go to one email address, but if they’re interested in anything else it goes to a different one. However I want to know what their interest was and display it in the email sent.
  
  I thought that this feature would allow me to do this, but only after a lot of banging my head against the wall did I realize that I had to use numerical values in the drop-down list instead of the interest values. Silly me: I was expecting it was using the index value of the menu.
  
  Since others may be as thick as I am (and may even prefer the behavior I describe), I thought I’d mention it here.
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  sottwell Reply #147, 20 years, 2 months ago

  Line 307 in eform.inc.php:
  

  ... <a href=\"[*id*]\">submit another form</a></p></div>";
  

  
  gave me grief because I don’t have friendly URLs turned on. Should be:
  

  ... <a href=\"[~[*id*]~]\">submit another form</a></p></div>";
  
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  Ryan Thrash Reply #148, 20 years, 2 months ago

  Thanks for that catch Susan. I’ve updated it and will commit it into the SVN repository.
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  sottwell Reply #149, 20 years, 2 months ago

  Ok, using Ryan’s fully patched version. Still can’t figure out how to maintain select options selected on reload for errors. My test template (taken from the original eFormParse announcement post, http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,2122.msg35514/topicseen.html#msg35514):
  

  <p><span style="color:#900;">[+validationmessage+]</span></p>
  <form method="post" action="[~[*id*]~]" name="testForm">
  <input type="hidden" name="formid" value="testForm" />
  <table>
  <tr valign="top">
  	<td>Name</td>
  	<td><input type="text" name="fullName" maxlength="60" eform="Your Name:text:1" value="[+fullName+]" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr valign="top">
  	<td>Email</td>
  	<td><input type="text" name="email" size="40" maxlength="40" eform="Email Address:email:1" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr valign="top">
  	<td>Any Ideas?</td>
  	<td>
  		<input type="radio" name="frmIdea" value="Yes" eform="Any Idea:radio:1" /> Yes 
  		<input type="radio" name="frmIdea" value="No" /> No 
  		<input type="radio" name="frmIdea" value="Maybe" /> Maybe 
  		<input type="radio" name="frmIdea" value="Dont Know" /> Don't Know
  	</td>
  </tr>
  <tr valign="top">
  	<td>Language</td>
  	<td><select name="frmLanguage">
  		<option value="en-au">AU English</option>
  		<option value="en-gb">UK English</option>
  		<option value="en-us" selected="selected">US English</option>
  </select></td>
  </tr>
  <tr valign="top">
  	<td><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" /></td>
  	<td></td>
  </tr>
  </table>
  </form>

  
  [later...] got it figured out. Added eform="Language:select:1" to the <select> tag:
  

  <select name="frmLanguage" eform="Language:select:1">

  and now it works just fine!
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  TobyL Reply #150, 20 years, 2 months ago

  [later...] got it figured out. Added eform="Language:select:1" to the <select> tag:

  
  I understand from what you’re saying that it doesn’t remember the value if you don’t make it required? That’s a bit of a bug(ger).. I’ll look into improving that.
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