[resolved] Today's Date

Hi I might be approaching this from the wrong angle but would appreciate any ideas.

I have a quote request form which uses eform on my website which is working fine. I now want to format the report so it produces what we call our enquiry form that we can then print off rather than filling it in manually.

The bit I am struggling with is the date. Is there a way to get the form to send the date on which is was submitted as a field without the user having to input it, i.e. a hidden field? Or is there a simple way I’m missing?


Thanks.

There’s probably a jabijillion ways to do it

You *could* make a template variable called "current-date" and in it :



where the date function is from : http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php.

In your template, have a hidden field with :



http://wiki.modxcms.com/index.php/EForm#Hidden_fields for more info.

Otherwise, if you don’t like to use the @EVAL, make yourself a quick snippet, and have :



Aware of course, that your eform is uncached ([! !])

@Pinky

Take a look at the eForm Snippet Parameters

Special placeholders available are: [+validationmessage+], [+postdate+],[+verimageurl+] & [+debugText+]. You should have the [+validatiomessage+] placeholder in all your forms. The others you may need depending on other parameters.

Add "[+postdate+]" to your eform report - its that easy.

I use the code below in my eForm report:


Cheers

Thank you for your help! [+postdate+] worked fine - very simple lol new I was missing something