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Hi,

Is it possible to combine a dynamic subjectfield with custom text?

example "Your car will be picked up on {date}"

Thanks!
Marcel

Found it🙂

<?php
$form->data['subject'] = "Some text {$form->data['input_name']} some more text";
?>

Than type 'subject' in dynamic field

Hi Marcel,

Well found, there's also this FAQ

Bob

Hi guys,

Loving 4.0 but pretty frustrated with this part of it... I know its going to be something really easy...

Form Fields:
First Name (first_name)
Last Name (last_name)

Trying to combine those two fields into full_name (which is a hidden field in the form)

the code I'm using is:

$form->data['full_name']="{$form->data['first_name']  $form->data['last_name']}";

then i'm putting full_name in the dynamic from name field (no curly brackets).

no joy😟 I'm trying this with several fields - so if I can get one working - I can get them all🙂

thanks

Hi rodsdesign,

I think that this is a PHP syntax question. Apologies for the slightly long answer.

There are several ways of mixing PHP and HTML; and here the space in the middle is HTML:

You can use quotes to go into and out of PHP:

$form->data['full_name'] = $form->data['first_name'].' '.$form->data['last_name'];

which is fine for a short clause like this.

Or you can use double quotes round the whole clause and use {} to mark out each PHP variable (they must begin with a $ for this to work, and each variable has it's own set of brackets:

$form->data['full_name'] = "{$form->data['first_name']} {$form->data['last_name']};

This makes for much easier reading when you have moderately complex clauses. This is my preferred format.

Note that the clause must be in double quotes - if you use single quotes then PHP will not parse the clause to find the variables and will treat the whole thing as a literal string.

Bob

PS There's also a HEREDOC syntax and there is a style where you duck in and out of ?> <?php echo tags which I find messy and hard to read.