[Snippet] eForm - The Electronic form Snippet

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  Ryan Thrash Reply #181, 20 years, 1 month ago

  TheBear,
  
  It would seem your template is not right.
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  TheBear Reply #182, 20 years, 1 month ago

  Quote from: rthrash at Sep 02, 2006, 02:40 PM

  
  TheBear,
  
  It would seem your template is not right.
  

  D’oh. Having gone through the dozens of pages of this thread, I think I’m a little lost with how all of this is supposed to work, especially when it comes down to the eForm parser. This is (hopefully) a detailed list of what did and what I have going; can anybody check to see what I’m doing wrong?
  
  - I have installed the original eForm snippet as shown on the original post. I’ve replaced and included the eForm Parser.
  - I made a new chunk titled "contactform" and in it includes the following:
  

  <div style="margin-top: 20px;"><p>Fields mark with <span class="title">*</span> are required.</p>
  <p><span style="color: #900;">[+validationmessage+]</span></p>
  	<form method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
  		<input type="hidden" name="formID" value="contactform" />
  		<label style="float: left; width: 90px;"><span class="title">*</span> Your Name:</label>  
  			<input type="text" name="form_element0" size="40" eform="Your Name::1:" /></span><br /><br />
  		<label style="float: left; width: 90px;"><span class="title" eform="Email Address:email:1">*</span> Your e-mail:</label>  
  			<input type="text" name="form_element1" size="40" /><br /><br />
  		<label style="float: left; width: 90px;"><span class="title">*</span> Subject:</label> 
  			<select name="form_element2" eform="Subject::1:">
  				<option value="Sales Related">
  					Sales Related
  				</option>
  				<option value="Tech Support Related">
  					Tech Support Related
  				</option>
  				<option value="Other">
  					Other
  				</option>
  			</select><br /><br />
  		<label style="float: left; width: 90px;"><span class="title">*</span> Message:</label> 
  		<textarea name="form_element3" rows="8" cols="38" eform="Your Message::1:"></textarea><br /><br />
  		<input class="form-input-button" type="submit" name="submitButton" value="Submit" />
  		<input class="form-input-button" type="reset" name="resetButton" value="Reset" /> 
  	</form></div>

  
  
  - I then called the snippet eform with the following on my contact page:
  

  [!eform? &formid=`contactform`  &to=`[email protected]` &gotoid=`1` &tpl=`contactform`!]

  
  
  Perhaps I have to create a report template? Thank you in advance for your support.
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  Ryan Thrash Reply #183, 20 years, 1 month ago

  You do in fact need a report template.
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  Si Reply #184, 20 years, 1 month ago

  I need to get the error messages for when someone doesn’t fill in a field to appear at the page.
  I have a form that appears at the bottom of a long page so when someone clicks the send button
  and an error appears because they haven’t filled in a field they don’t see the errors because the page refreshes
  
  Have a look:
  Click on the send button without filling in any fields... you’ll see you need to scroll down to see the error messages
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  sottwell Reply #185, 20 years ago

  It’s a placeholder. Put it wherever you want it.
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  Si Reply #186, 20 years ago

  I’ve tried it but it dooesn’t work!
  This is the code I’m placing at the top of the page but it doesn’t show anything:
  
  <p><b><span style="color:#FF0000;">[+validationmessage+]</span></b></p>
  
  
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  TobyL Reply #187, 20 years ago

  I’m not completely sure if this will work but try to make the document itself the template for eForm. So your document would look something like this:
  

  <h1>Adrenalin Games Paintball - Booking & Prices</h1>
  <p><strong>Promotions</strong></p>
  <form name="contact" action="booking_paintball_prices" method="post">
  <input name="formid" value="MyForm" type="hidden">
  <p class="whatever-error-class">[+validationmessage+]</p>
  
  ...more normal page content...
  
  <ol>
      <li>
        <label for="yourname">Your name:<em>*</em></label>
        <input id="yourname" size="27" class="" name="yourname" value="" type="text">
      </li>
  ...rest of form...
  </ol>
  </form>
  
  <!-- call snippet -->
  [!eForm tpl=`document_id` report=`etcetera` !]
  
  

  
  
  Where document_id is the id of the page. As I said, I’m not sure if this works but give it a try... I don’t know what eFormParse does with the rest of your content (meaning I can’t remember). When I’ve got a bit more time I’ll have a look into it.
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  Si Reply #188, 20 years ago

  Just an idea...
  
  Is it possible to edit the code to it goes to a URL on error (and shows the error messages)?
  What I’m thinking is to use an anchor tag to go to the bottom of the page.
  
  so on error the code goes to:
  &gotourl=`[~[*id*]~]#error`
  
  and the follow anchor can be placed at the top of the form chunk
  <a name="error" id="error"></a>
  
  If it is possible then can someone edit it for me as I have no PHP knowledge.... YET!
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  PaulGregory Reply #189, 20 years ago

  Well, if you could specify a URL, then you’d be better off having a duplicate (hidden) page that didn’t have any of the top text.
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  Si Reply #190, 20 years ago

  I agree with that but I thought it may be easier if the phaser stayed on the same page
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