Dynamic placeholder problem

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jdelight Reply #1, 17 years, 2 months ago

I seem to have a problem whereby dynamic placeholders used within the &subject parameter do not get picked up.
Here’s the snippet call:

[!eForm? &formid=`ContactForm` &subject=`[+name+]` &to=`[email protected]` &tpl=`ContactForm` &report=`ContactFormReport` &gotoid=`14` !]

Here’s the form:

<form method="post" action="[~[*id*]~]" id="ContactForm" name="ContactForm" class="basic">
	<fieldset>
 
		<input name="formid" type="hidden" value="ContactForm" />
 		<ol>
			<li>
			  <label for="name">Your name:</label>
			  <input name="name" id="name" class="text" type="text" eform="Your Name::0:" />
			</li>
			<li>
			  <label for="email">Your Email:</label>
			  <input  name="email" id="email" class="text" type="text" eform="Email Address:email:1"  />
			</li>
			 
  			<li>
			  <label for="message">Message:</label>
			 <textarea rows="5" cols="30" class="text t-area" name="message" id="message" eform="Message:textarea:1"></textarea>
			</li>
			<li class="submit">
			 <label> </label>
			 <input type="image" src="/img/buttons/send.gif"  name="contact" id="cfContact" class="button" value="Send" />
			</li>
		</ol>
  	</fieldset>
 </form>

All the details come through on the report but in the subject of the email I get "0" (the number zero)
However, if I change the subject param to:

&subject=`message from [+name+]`

I just get "message from"

Very strange...

Also could someone point me to some documentation of the eform attribute as I haven’t found any

thanks

I’m using modx 0.9.5 and eform 1.4.3

Your help would be much appreciated.

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BB2 Reply #2, 17 years, 2 months ago

Hi,

I don’t think the &subject parameter accepts dynamic content with placeholders such as [+name+] , unless you have another approach of setting this value into the snippet call. ... TobyL or others may help you more with that

Why not give a general subject line with &subject=`Mail sent by domain.com`

And have the details of the [+name+] included in a report "contactformreport":
f.i.

<p>Deze mail werd gestuurd door "[+name+]" via de website domain.com. Details van dit bericht:</p>
<table>
<tr valign="top"><td>Naam:</td><td>[+name+]</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td>Email:</td><td>[+email+]</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td>Onderwerp:</td><td>[+Onderwerp+]</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td>Bericht:</td><td>[+Bericht+]</td></tr>
</table>

The call to eform is then like this:
[!eForm? &formid=`contactform` &tpl=`contactform` &to=`[email protected]` &report=`contactformreport` &subject=`Vraag via site pcvo-gent.net` &vericode=`1`!]

Hope this helps

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jdelight Reply #3, 17 years, 2 months ago

According to TobyL (who I think wrote the snippet) you should be able to have any placeholder from the form.
See his explanation: http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,10720.msg72768.html#msg72768

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TobyL Reply #4, 17 years, 2 months ago

Yes, that’s more or less correct. I just copied and pasted your form template and snippet call and the subject displayed the name fine. It is as if the name field is seen as a number or boolean value. I did notice that you have the name set as a none-required field though. Did whoever posted the form fill in a name at all? If they didn’t this behaviour makes sense, otherwise I’m at a loss why this wouldn’t work for you. .

Perhaps change the name field to:

<input name="name" id="name" class="text" type="text" eform="Your Name:string:1:" />

As far as documentation goes look in assets/snippets/eform/docs/eform.htm

eForm | eForm support | eForm @ wiki

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BB2 Reply #5, 17 years, 2 months ago

Quote from: jdelight at Feb 24, 2007, 10:46 PM

According to TobyL (who I think wrote the snippet) you should be able to have any placeholder from the form.
See his explanation: http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,10720.msg72768.html#msg72768

You are right! I was thinking about the dynamic content of using a tv as parameter option. My apologies

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BB2 Reply #6, 17 years, 2 months ago

Could it not be that two attributes "name" and "id" is causing this?

<input name="name" id="name" class="text" type="text" eform="Your Name:string:1:" />

My [+Naam+] placeholder comes through in the subject line. I have

<input type="text" name="Naam" maxlength="60" size="40" eform="Uw naam::1" />

as input tag.

The documentation of TobyL also doesn’t mention

<input name="name" id="name"