Steve, I’m way ahead of you, speed up man! Just kidding!
When you say "insert the contents of any variable into a placeholder" I guess that you mean a placeholder that you can use in an eForm? If so, you can do it this way:
Create a snippet that you call "uncle68". If you want to use another name thats ok
In that snippet you create a function like this:
function uncle68_4ever(&$fields) {
}
Whithin the {} you define your placeholder by doing like this: $fields[nameofplaceholder] = ’content of placeholder’;
Content of placeholder can be what ever you want, like your own varible:
$myVarible = ’Hi! My name is Steve’;
$fields[’nameofplaceholder’] = $myVarible;
You can actually even do like this to have dynamic forms:
$myVarible = ’<input type="text" name="email" size="40" maxlength="40" eform="Your Email Address:email:1" /> ’;
$fields[’nameofplaceholder’] = $myVarible;
The problem with that is that validation does not work! But if you only are going to use it for hidden fields that would be no problem!
In the document from which you call eForm, you should add a call to the snippet you made *before* the call to eForm. And also add this to the eForm call: &eFormOnBeforeFormMerge=`nameOfYourFunction`
The complete snippet you made should look something like this:
function uncle68_4ever(&$fields) {
$myVarible = ’Hi! My name is Steve’;
$fields[’nameofplaceholder’] = $myVarible;
//more placeholders //
return true;
}
return ’’;
As I said, this may not be what you asked for, and I hope you don’t think my instructions asumes that you didn’t already know this
Good luck
/Anders
EDIT: As I understand it might be better to use the eFormOnBeforeFormParse for creating form elements dynamically, but I just can’t get that event to work. The function I’ve created seems not to be called. I’ll test some more... does it work for anyone else?
