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Do the email and general options depend on the form elements being explicitly stated in the form code?

If that doesn't make sense, what I mean is that I am trying to make my form code, not explicit, I want someone in the future to be able to change it by just changing a couple numbers rather than editing the form code itself. However, recent testing of this has sent me blank emails, and sometimes, emails don't come at all.

So if I have a form field

{selection1}

does that depend on an input field being explicitly stated like so:

<input type='text' name='selection1' id='selection1' />

Rather than part of a php statement like so:
for($i=0;$i<4;$i++)
echo '<input type="text" name="selection'.$i.'" id="selection'.$i.'" />'

Thanks in advance for any input.

Post edited by: rstruber, at: 2007/12/13 07:49

Post edited by: rstruber, at: 2007/12/13 07:50<br><br>Post edited by: rstruber, at: 2007/12/13 07:51

Hi rstruber,

Yes, ChronoForms parses the 'Form HTML' to find field names so it will only find explicit declarations.

Sorry, I can't think of any workaround to this one, it's pretty fundamental to the way the extension works.

Bob

Okay thanks, maybe I'll just make a page that generates the html for the form, and then someone can copy / paste it into the form field.