parse tokens in url for field values

I would like to populate field values based on tokens in the url, like

index.php?option=com_chronocontact&chronoformname=remove_request?Email=test@test.com=Dec07

I have searched, didn't find anything. I am converting a site to Joomla and need this functionality. I am a Joomla novice.

The old way was a forming a url like

http://site.com/remove.htm?Email=test@test.com=Dec07

and using JS in the form

		<script type="text/javascript"><!--
a=location.href;if(a.indexOf("=")>-1){a=a.split("=");
			document.forms[0].Email_address.value=a[1];
			document.forms[0].Newsletter.value=a[2];}
// -->
		</script>

How would I get this done in Joomla with CF? I am not restricting this to registered users, so pulling from a DB table won't work. Any help is appreciated.

Hi dtcinc,

<?php
$email = getVar('Email');
?>

should give you a value from the url.

But your url needs to be correctly formed - one ? at the beginning of the query string then a series of &name1=value1&name2=value2 pairs.

Bob

Bob,

I am adding this to the top of the form code

<?php
$email = getVar('Email');
?>

and get an error

Call to undefined function getVar()

I am a novice, so please don't assume I know what I'm doing... thanks

I believe that should be something like this instead:

<?php
$email = JRequest::getVar('Email');
?>

Then, to prefill your form (if I understood your request correctly), you'd do something like this:

Enter email address: <input type="text" name="email" value="<?php echo($email); ?>" />

thanks, that code works great.

Hi dtcinc,

Yes that's good, apologies for my mistake.

Bob

Merci beaucoup !
Fonctionne également pour passer des variables d'un formulaire à un autre.
A la place de :
<?php
$nom1=$_POST['nom1'];
$mail1=$_POST['mail1'];
?>
mettre :
<?php
$nom1 = JRequest::getVar('nom1');
$mail1 = JRequest::getVar('mail1');
?>