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I have a sign-up form I have created that adds a user to an activity. The form uses two DB tables: one that identifies multiple activities and the other participants associated to a given activity. I would like to use this form with the Chronoforms Plugin on a content page for a specific activity, but need to pass the form the activity identifier so the correct activity gets associated with the added participant. I don't want to create separate forms if I can avoid it, and don't want the user to have to select the appropriate activity. I am using Chronoforms v4.0.6 and gradually converting to v5.0.4 on Joomla! 3.3.3.

Is there a way to pass the activity identifier using something like {chronoforms data:"activity=2"}ActivityForm{/chronoforms} as described in this forum thread http://www.chronoengine.com/forums/posts/f4/t88901/chronoforms-plugin-parameter-and-show-form-action-support.html?hilit=plugin+parameters?

If not, how would you suggest I address this requirement?

Hi MainsailSoftware,

Please try this with v5:

{chronoforms5}form_name&activity=XYZ{/chronoforms5}

Now a field named "activity" in your form should have the XYZ value set.

Regards,
Max

Thanks Max,

I tried

{chronoforms5}Activity&activity_id=XYZ{/chronoforms5}

and the following is what is seen using the Debug action.

Array
(
[Activity] =>
[amp;activity_id] => XYZ
)

It working, but not as I expected... Any suggestions?

I also tried

{chronoforms5}Activity&activity_id=XYZ&member_name=Name{/chronoforms5}

and got

Array
(
[Activity] =>
[amp;activity_id] => XYZ
[amp;member_name] => Name
)

I think that your text editor in the article has replaced the "&" by "&", please disable the editor and fix this then save and retry!

Regards,
Max

Hummm...

I am using Chrome browser and the latest Joomla! admin JCE editor...

I will try looking into what exactly is being generated and get back to you.

Looking at what the JCE editor is producing, you are exactly correct! If I Toggle the editor to show the generated html, I get...

<p>{chronoforms5}Activity&activity_id=XYZ{/chronoforms5}</p>

I had to save the article with the JCE editor in Toggled to the html view. If you toggle back, it changes back to &.

I tried my code with this article plugin reference and change my data reference from amp;activity_id to activity_id and it works perfectly.

This is an editor issue as you suggest, but I would think most Joomla! admins will use the built-in content editing tools.

Perhaps you might consider allowing other separators in addition to &, such as $ or ? or colon or semi-colon or comma?

For now I can keep this issue in mind and perform direct HTML editing of the plugin reference before saving.

Thanks, I added a fix for that!

Regards,
Max

Thanks Max...

Perfect Bob!

First, I want to say how great you guys provide support for your product! I am really happy that I purchased Chronoforms!

Bob, I made the change you suggested and that fixed the DB Save issue, but after I changed the Article back so that the JCE editor once again produced <p>{chronoforms5}Activity&activity_id=XYZ{/chronoforms5}</p> in the saved HTML, another error appeared.

The form I created initially does a DB Read to make sure the participant has not already registered for the Activity. As part of the conditions for the DB Read I have this snippet of PHP code:

<?php return array( 'activity_id' => $form->data['activity_id']); ?>

The error that appears on the frontend is as follows:

Notice: Undefined index: activity_id in /hsphere/local/home/a965916/mbiyc.com/joomla/administrator/components/com_chronoforms5/chronoforms/actions/db_read/db_read.php(67) : eval()'d code on line 4

Debut show:

Array
(
[Activity] =>
[amp;activity_id] => XYZ
)

I have look at the code in the admin component indicated at line 67. I guess I could hack something there, but I am not so sure I would be correcting the code in the right location. If I go back to making sure the saved Article HTML does not convert & to &, everything works correctly.

So, it appears that a fix to some other location in the code maybe needed. I will leave it up to you two to tell me how to proceed.

Jim

Sorry Guys.... Please ignore my previous 2 posts... The change you recommended worked fine.

Evidently, when I FileZilla'ed the new plugin code up to the server, it did not initially take... I assume a Caching issue.

I also modified your debug action to include pr($form->actions_config) so I can see what the action is getting...

Again, thanks to the both of you for a great job with support and the components you have developed!

Jim

Hi Jim,

Great, no problems!🙂

btw, no need to hack the debugger action, just use your code inside a "custom code" atcion:
<?php pr($form);

Regards,
Max

Dah!... I should have thought of that! But I was in coding mode in my local NetBeans editor.

Thanks again... love working with you guys!

Jim