Populate form with page information

Is it possible to populate a form when the page loads with the current article, category and section information i.e. page title?

it appears we actually need the information from a previous page 😲 i.e. if a user wanted to request information about a product (within the article title) then they click a request information button that then takes them to the chrono form - would it be possible to then auto fill a text box for 'product' within the form with the preious pages title?

Is this a javascript function?

Hi,
The simplest approach here would probably to add the needed information to the link URL. IE: http://www.example.com/index.php?option=com_chronocontact&chronoformname=example&product=Some+Product
or
http://www.example.com/myform.html?product=Some+Product

Then, in your Form HTML code, retrieve the value using the JRequest class and insert it into the desired field:

<input type="text" name="product" value="<?php echo JRequest::getString('product', '', 'get'); ?>" />

/Fredrik

That's what I thought, but there's almost 50 pages of items and this would be reflected by the links within the module which is placed on the right of the page.

I think your on the right lines with

<input type="text" name="product" value="<?php echo JRequest::getString('product', '', 'get'); ?>" />

I've seen something similar to this to call the information for the page requested, but nothing for the previous page yet.

Any ideas?

I've discovered this:

[ VB ]
Public ReadOnly Property UrlReferrer As Uri

[ C# ]
public Uri UrlReferrer {get;}

[ C++ ]
public: __property Uri* get_UrlReferrer ( );

[ JScript ]
public function get UrlReferrer ( ) : Uri;

I assume for chronoforms it would be the JScript function?

Ok well I've fathomed this out, within the table properties under form code then expanding the HTML menu, I amended the code with the addition of 'value="<?php echo @$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']; ?>' - this then calls the previous pages url and posts it within the form for me.

So I went from:

<div class="form_item">
  <div class="form_element cf_textbox">
    <label class="cf_label" style="width: 150px;">Product</label>
    <input class="cf_inputbox required" maxlength="150" size="50" title="" id="text_5" name="preqProd" type="text""/>
  
  </div>
  <div class="cfclear"> </div>
</div>

to

<div class="form_item">
  <div class="form_element cf_textbox">
    <label class="cf_label" style="width: 150px;">Product</label>
    <input class="cf_inputbox required" maxlength="150" size="50" title="" id="text_5" name="preqProd" type="text" value="<?php echo @$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']; ?>"/>
  
  </div>
  <div class="cfclear"> </div>
</div>

So yay - but now if I could get the article title that would be even greater - if anyone knows a fix then I'd really appreciate it🙂

Bump bump 😀 just wondering if anyone does know how to parse the page title of the referring page?

Hi,
You could do something like this:

<?
$app =& JFactory::getApplication();
if ($app->isSite()) {
  if (array_key_exists('HTTP_REFERER', $_SERVER)) {
    $router =& $app->getRouter();
    $parts =& $router->parse($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']);
    if (array_key_exists('id', $parts) && array_key_exists('catid', $parts)) {
    // We have successfully identified the refering article.. let's proceed
      $article =& JTable::getInstance('content');
      if ($article->load($parts['id'])) {
        // We've successfully loaded the article.. now to print something useful?
        echo "You visited this form from the \"" . $article->title . "\" article.";
      }
    }
  }
}
?>

If you simply need the article or category id, you won't have to do the final step of loading the article, as these are already available in $parts['id'] and $parts['catid'], otherwize access the various properties of $article (see http://api.joomla.org/Joomla-Framework/Table/JTableContent.html for details on the JTableContent object and available properties).

/Fredrik