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I’m new to Joomla and have had fun learning it along with Chronoforms. I’ve built a simple user input form with the form wizard and it works perfectly! I would really like to dazzle the users by having the “name” field self populate since all who use the form are registered at the website. I saw a forum post with Joomla 1.5 code that does this and have been trying to adapt it to my simple little form, but apparently I have a long way to go toward learning manual coding. I can get the example form code to work on my website, (but not a combination of the two forms).

[attachment=0]MileageReportv2.txt[/attachment]

First is the code snippet I've been trying to adapt followed by the code of my original form - Can anyone help me combine the two into a working form? Thanks in advance.

Hi Mjudge,

Replace this

<?php
$user =& JFactory::getUser();
?>
<div class="form_item">
  <div class="form_element cf_textbox">
    <label class="cf_label" style="width: 150px;">Member Name</label>
    <input class="cf_inputbox required" maxlength="80" size="30" title="Enter User Name!" id="text_1" name="text_1" type="text" />
  
  </div>
  <div class="cfclear"> </div>
</div>

with this

<div class="form_item">
  <div class="form_element cf_textbox">
    <label class="cf_label" style="width: 150px;">Member Name</label>
    <input class="cf_inputbox required" maxlength="80" size="30" title="Enter User Name!" id="text_1" name="text_1" type="text" value="<?php echo $user->name; ?>" />
  
  </div>
  <div class="cfclear"> </div>
</div>

Bob

Thanks for your feed-back. I had a little trouble getting the hybrid form to work, but when I replaced your database reference line with the one from that original forum post it worked great. I needed that guidance on where to place code modifications and the html syntax, etc. Thanks again to both of you!

<div class="form_item">
  <div class="form_element cf_heading">
    <h2 class="cf_text">Mileage Report Form</h2>
  </div>
  <div class="cfclear"> </div>
</div>

<div class="form_item">
  <div class="form_element cf_textbox">
    <label class="cf_label" style="width: 150px;">Member Name</label>
    <input class="cf_inputbox required" maxlength="80" size="15" title="Enter User Name!" id="text_1" name="text_1" 

type="text" value="<?php $user = &JFactory::getUser();echo $user->name;?>" />
  
  </div>
  <div class="cfclear"> </div>
</div>

<div class="form_item">
  <div class="form_element cf_textbox">
    <label class="cf_label" style="width: 150px;">Year-To-Date Total Mileage to Report</label>
    <input class="cf_inputbox required validate-number" maxlength="30" size="15" title="Enter Numbers!" id="text_2" 

name="text_2" type="text" />
  <a class="tooltiplink" onclick="return false;"><img height="16" border="0" width="16" class="tooltipimg" alt="" 

src="components/com_chronocontact/css/images/tooltip.png"/></a>
				<div class="tooltipdiv">Enter Mileage for the Year :: Numbers Only Please!</div>
  </div>
  <div class="cfclear"> </div>
</div>

<div class="form_item">
  <div class="form_element cf_textarea">
    <label class="cf_label" style="width: 150px;">Send Private Message to Prez? (Optional)</label>
    <textarea class="cf_inputbox" rows="3" id="text_3" title="" cols="34" name="text_3"></textarea>
    <a class="tooltiplink" onclick="return false;"><img height="16" border="0" width="16" class="tooltipimg" alt="" 

src="components/com_chronocontact/css/images/tooltip.png"/></a>
				<div class="tooltipdiv">Private Message to Prez? :: Optional</div>
  </div>
  <div class="cfclear"> </div>
</div>

<div class="form_item">
  <div class="form_element cf_button">
    <input value="Submit Your Entry" name="button_4" type="submit" />
  </div>
  <div class="cfclear"> </div>
</div>

P.S.
Also, how do you insert code into the forum post in that snazzy code text box?

Hi Mjudge,

Click the 'Code' button above the message edit window. Or add [.code]code here[./code] without the .s

Bob

Thanks again!