Field auto filled

Hi,

I can't find this question in the forum.

I've made a form 'test' with the following fields which stories the submissions in a tabel jos_test. In this table the following columns exist (and a couple more):
- cf_id
- uid
- name
- email
- country

With Connectivity i created two connections. The first only shows a list of the names which are links. When a link (name) is clicked the second connection comes in and shows the cf_id, name, email and country on a page. There is also a link on this page to a second form 'newform'. When someone clicks this link for openening then i want to 'passthrough' the name into a computed field. The link contains a variable (&chronoformname=newform&name={name}) but how can i achieve it that it gives the value into the field. I hope it makes sense.

Thanks in advance,

Jaap

Hi Jaap,

In your form html you should be abel to get the value with:

<?php
$name = JRequest::getString('name', '', 'get');
?>

Bob

PS 'name' is not a good fieldname to user - it has too many other uses and can cause problems, try 'uname' or something else if things don't work as you expect.

Hi Greyhead,

Due to a holiday i haven't be able to test it earlier. Thanks for the tip. I've tested it but i can't get it to work, i've also tried another field because of your PS comment/tip. The result stays empty. When i click the button for the newform the url is (example of one of the entries):

index.php?option=com_chronocontact&chronoformname=newform&swimmer=Jaap

On the form i've placed the code(form code tab,form html):

<strong> him and<?php
$swimmer = JRequest::getString('swimmer', ' ', 'get');?></strong>

Because i'm still struggling with it i removed everything else so that i should only see the text below and de Joomla Professional Work link. I thought i would see 'Him and Jaap'. I can't see what i'm doing wrong because it's all rather new to me.

Regards,

Jaap

Hi Jaap,

You need to add an echo to have it show up in the output:

<strong> him and<?php
echo JRequest::getString('swimmer', ' ', 'get'); ?></strong>

Bob

Thanks Greyhead. I thought it was something simple and it was.

Regards,

Jaap