See which page(url) the form was sent from

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pocketp Reply #1, 13 years, 2 months ago

If i have the same contactform on 20 different pages would it be possible to retrieve the url from which page the form was sent from?

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samba Reply #2, 13 years, 2 months ago

Hi,
I know what to do, but not how with FormIt.

I think you’d just need to get $_SERVER[’REQUEST_URI’] into a hidden variable on the form, and bing bing bada bing.

Maybe a FormIt expert will chime in. This, btw, is a nice feature to have, I bet the developer will do it! (or maybe it’s already there)

Cheers, Dave

MODx and Wordpress development
Linux, PHP 5.2, MySQL 5.0, Evo 1.05, Revo 2.08-pl, Firefox 4

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pocketp Reply #3, 13 years, 2 months ago

Do you have an example of how this would be possible to get lets say in subject line?

Im completely lost when it comes to php and how to integrate this

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whistlemaker Reply #4, 13 years, 2 months ago

You don’t say whether you are using Revo or Evo...
The following are Revo tags, Evo is similar I’m sure - you can look it up if you need to.
Either way you do not need any php code.

You could just use [[*id]] or [[~[[*id]]]] in the form - in a hidden field or whatever - a hidden field might be a good idea so that the user is less likely to mess with this input, used in the subject line of an email as I show below the user might erase ’your’ subject and create their own; do both perhaps.

[[*id]] would give the id of the form page
if FURLs are on [[~[[*id]]]] will give you the URL without the base of the form page

for example
put this code on the page: mysite.com/contact.html

<a href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=from-[[~[[*id]]]]">[email protected]</a>

and when clicked the user will get an email with the subject: from-contact.html

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whistlemaker Reply #5, 13 years, 2 months ago

I’m not thinking clearly here - you are using formit

if you wanted the page in the subject you alter the subject to this

&emailSubject=`Some Sucker Bought Another CDO - sent from [[~[[*id]]]]`

would add the page URL (minus your base URL) - should work... I did not stop and test.

code borrowed from the formit docs on the modx site

[[!FormIt?
   &emailTpl=`CentralizedDebtObligationEmailTpl`
   &emailSubject=`Some Sucker Bought Another CDO`
   &emailTo=`[email protected]`
   &emailCC=`[email protected]`
   &emailBCC=`[email protected]`
   &emailBCCName=`CDO Fraud Informant`
]]

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pocketp Reply #6, 13 years, 2 months ago

Lovely solution whistlemaker

Cant believe i didnt think to try something like this!

Yes im currently using revo.
It works with revo and new formit

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pocketp Reply #7, 12 years, 10 months ago

Is there any way to this in eform in evolution btw?

tried doing it same way as above but no go