URL Problem

How to fix a broken edit link when migrating from ChronoForms 7 to 8.

Overview

The issue occurs because the URL parameter name for the edit page changed from 'gpage' to 'chronopage', and the encoding method for the URL needs adjustment.
Update your server-side PHP code to use 'chronopage' as the parameter and ensure the art_id value is properly encoded using rawurlencode before constructing the full link.

Fr Fredolino 27 Jan, 2026

Hi,

In CF7, the link to the edit page from a server-side processing PHP page worked correctly. Now I'm trying it in CF8, but it's not working. The URL is also displayed correctly in the browser with the ID.

What's the problem?

CF7: ?art_id=3&gpage=edit

CF8: /index.php/redaktionsbereich/hauptliste-bearbeiten?art_id=' . htmlspecialchars($art_id, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8') . '&chronopage=edit">';

F.

Max_admin 28 Jan, 2026

Hi Fred

Where do you place this link ? in a PHP action ?

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Fr Fredolino 28 Jan, 2026

no, in PHP File of the server (server-side processing PHP)

for CF7 ok: $ret = '<a href="/index.php/redaktionsbereich/hauptliste-bearbeiten?art_id=' . htmlspecialchars($art_id, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8') . '&gpage=edit">';

Fr Fredolino 31 Jan, 2026

Answer

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This thread can be closed. This is the answer:

$url = '/index.php/redaktionsbereich/hauptliste-bearbeiten?art_id=' . rawurlencode($art_id) . '&chronopage=edit';

echo '<a href="' . htmlspecialchars($url, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8') . '">';

Fr Fredolino 04 Feb, 2026

Thank you for the information.

In CF7, the code in the server-side processing PHP file works without any problems:

[
            'db' => null, 'dt' => 14, 'export' => null,
            'formatter' => function($d, $row) {
                $art_id = $row['art_id'];
                $ret  = '<a href="/index.php/redaktionsbereich/hauptliste-bearbeiten?art_id='
                      . htmlspecialchars($art_id, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8') . '&gpage=edit">';
                $ret .= '<i class="fa fa-edit"></i>';
                $ret .= '</a>';
                return $ret;
            }
        ]

In CF8, the code doesn't work, even when "&gpage=edit" is replaced with "&chronopage=edit".

However, this code produces the correct URL in the frontend and works without any issues:

foreach ($columns as $c) {
                $rowData[] = $row[$c['db']] ?? null;
            }
            // zusätzliche virtuelle Spalte (Edit-Link) falls du sie brauchst:
            $art_id = $row['art_id'] ?? '';
            $url = '/index.php/redaktionsbereich/hauptliste-bearbeiten?art_id=' . rawurlencode($art_id) . '&chronopage=edit';
            $rowData[] = '<a href="' . htmlspecialchars($url, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8') . '"><i class="fa fa-edit"></i></a>';

            $data[] = $rowData;
        }

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