Q: two forms in series, pass the info and send two emails

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bwente Reply #1, 18 years, 10 months ago

I have a short form that send an email, that I would like to redirect to a longer version of the form with the the previous information pre-filled out.

I tried referring to the fields in the chunk but had no luck, I also tried using session. What would be the best way to do this?

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TobyL Reply #2, 18 years, 10 months ago

Have a look at this example and alter it to your needs...

http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,8572.0.html

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bwente Reply #3, 18 years, 9 months ago

Thanks Toby, I was trying to do something simpler.

I have a mini form on the first page, to capture name and email. I want to email the info to me, then on the thank you page have a more in-depth form to collect additional information.
I ask name and email again, and want to pre-populate the fields again.

Here is what I have...

I tried this, and the placeholders are passed, but the template doesn’t change
[!eForm? &formid=`QuizForm` &subject=`Web Contact` &to=`[email protected]` &tpl=`miniq` &report=`quizReport` &thankyou=`28` !]

The template changes, but does not populate the placeholders
[!eForm? &formid=`QuizForm` &subject=`Web Contact` &to=`[email protected]` &tpl=`miniq` &report=`quizReport` &gotoid=`28` !]

This is on doc 28, my thank you page

<input id="txtFirst" maxlength="50" name="txtFirst" tabindex="0" type="text" value="[+formFirst+]" />

Any ideas?

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TobyL Reply #4, 18 years, 9 months ago

Hmm, I’ve never tried this but possibly this could work.

On the original (first) eform form use the eFormOnMailSent event to store the values in the session. For instance

function onBeforeMailSent( &$fields){
    $_SESSION['eform_name] = $fields['name'];
    $_SESSION['eform_email] = $fields['email'];

    return true;
}

On the &gotoid page create a new eForm call with a different formid and template and use the &sessionVars to import the session values.

[!eForm? &formid=`different_form` &tpl=`different_template` &sessionVars=`eform_name,eform_email` ...!]

In your second template you would have these fields with a placeholder...

...
<input name="name" type="text" value="[+eform_name+]" eform="Your Name::1"/>
...
<input  name="email" type="text" value="[+eform_email+]" eform="Your email Address:email:1" />
...

AsI said, I’ve never tried this, but give it a go....

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