Prepopulate name field in submitcontent form

Greetings.

Love the component and the submitcontent form. I had only one complaint with it, which is that I wanted registered users to be able to submit articles under their names without having to type it in -- in other words, I wanted to prepopulate the name field with the user's Joomla username. Wasn't hard, in the end, and I thought I'd share it for others.

In the form code, add a "value" attribute to the input tag, as follows:

<input value="<?php
$user =& JFactory::getUser();
 
  if ($user->guest) {
    echo "";
  } else {
     echo $user->username;
	 }
?>" class="cf_inputbox required validate-alpha" maxlength="15" size="30" id="text_7" name="created_by_alias" type="text">

Works perfectly in Joomla 1.5.8.

Hi,

How can you make this field not editable?

Regards,

Jaap

Hi Jaap,

Add the readonly="readonly" attribute. Or just add the name into ordinary html.

<div>your name is <?php echo $user->name; ?>, isn't it!</div>

Bob

thank you lnemeth,
it's exactly what i was looking for!!!