select a category in the "submit an article" form

Hi, 😀

I'm using the submitcontent form, which is really great🙂
but I need to have each article writer to select a category as in the classical "submit an article" page from the Joomla Core. I tried many things (pasting the code from the "submit an article" page to my form, etc.), but none works.

I'm a beginner in PHP, but I tried to code myself. Maybe I took a wrong way right from the start, or maybe I've done a huge and obvious error. Anyway I think that won't be hard for you to find out!!!😉


So far I have something like this in the "Form HTML" part :

Choose a category : <div class="clear">
  <form action="" method="post" name="category" id="category">
  <label></label>
  <select name="category" id="category">
    <option>category1</option>
    <option>category2</option>
 <option>category3</option>
  </select>
  </form>
  </div>

and this in the "On Submit code - after sending email" part :

<?php
$category=$_POST['category'];
$goandfind_req= "SELECT id FROM jos_categories WHERE ".$category."= title";
$goandfind=mysql_query($goandfind_req);
 
$_POST['catid'] =  $goandfind;
$_POST['id'] = ' ';
$_POST['sectionid'] = '1';
$_POST['state'] = '0';
$_POST['created'] = date("Y-m-d H:i:s");
?>

Thanks a lot for helping me 🙂

Hi tergra,

There are a couple of things that might be causing problems but one that surely is - please remove the <form> tag from the Form HTML, ChronoForms write sit own and two will cause problems.

Which version of Joomla are you using?

Bob

Thanks for answering me, I'm using J1.5🙂
What do you mean by "please remove the <form> tag from the Form HTML"? Where is that "form" tag?

Thanx a lot

Hi tergra,

those are the form tags :

<form action="" method="post" name="category" id="category">

and

</form>

other issue, use directly this code in your form and remove the SQL you have :

<select name="catid">
<option value="1">Category 1</option>
<option value="2">Category 2</option>
</select>

Cheers

Max

Hello !

So it can be this as well :

<?php
$category=$_POST['catid'];
$_POST['id'] = '';
$_POST['sectionid'] = '8';
$_POST['state'] = '1';
$_POST['created'] = date("Y-m-d H:i:s");
?>

Works perfect for me🙂

Just need to understand a bit more the component, but it seems this is what I desperatly needed...
Just a question : can I edit again the form thru front office ? (not as an article, but as the original posted form ? )

You rocks !😀

http://www.chronoengine.com/forums/index.php?option=com_chronoforums&cont=posts&f=2&t=11241&p=14487&hilit=edit+form#p14487

ok...🙂

Hi crony,

you even don't need this line :

$category=$_POST['catid'];

that's if you will use my dropdown code above.

Cheers

Max

Ok, thanks a lot, I will try this as soon as I can. 😀