How to autofill text area with joomla user's username?

Hello,

I have tried really hard to find out how to autofill text area with joomla user's username. But although reading lots of posts and the documentation I could not get it to work.

Let's say I have a form with just one text field "username" and a submit button. What do I have to do on setup page when using Wizard designer to make it autofill with the logged in user's username? I understand that it has to do with custom code and maybe also DB read. And I need to fill in some custom code, but I don't now what and where exactly.

Could anyone with experience give me a short step by step info how to set it up? That would be great 😀

Thanks and regards,
Andy

Btw, it worked in CFv4 and I'm not quite sure it works in v5. But it's worth trying😉

Hi innoads,

Please see this FAQ

Bob

@marcinwolejko: Thank you, this works well in V5, too!

@GreyHead: Thank you, I have read that FAQ already 5 times befor I asked the question, but it was not sure to me how and where to output the data in V5.

For everyone interested, it works for id, name, username, and email when you just put following code into a custom code FIELD in the Designer (nothing neccessary in Setup):

<?php
$user =& JFactory::getUser();
$form->data['id'] = $user->id;
$form->data['email'] = $user->email;
$form->data['name'] = $user->name;
$form->data['username'] = $user->username;
?>

<div class="ccms_form_element label_over" id="email_container_div" style="">
  <label for="id" size="250">ID</label>
  <input id="id" value="<?php echo $id; ?>" name="id" 
    type="text" <?php echo $readonly; ?> />
</div>

<div class="ccms_form_element label_over" id="name_container_div" style="">
  <label for="name" size="250">Name</label>
  <input id="name" value="<?php echo $name; ?>" name="name" 
    type="text" <?php echo $readonly; ?> />
</div>

<div class="ccms_form_element label_over" id="name_container_div" style="">
  <label for="username" size="250">Username</label>
  <input id="username" value="<?php echo $username; ?>" name="username" 
    type="text" <?php echo $readonly; ?> />
</div>

<div class="ccms_form_element label_over" id="name_container_div" style="">
  <label for="email" size="250">Email</label>
  <input id="email" value="<?php echo $email; ?>" name="email" 
    type="text" <?php echo $readonly; ?> />
</div>

Maybe it is not the most elegant solution, but it works for me.

.. well, I just realized, that the email part is not working! It outputs an error in the text field saying, that email is not displayed because of spam protection (I have Honeypot enabled). And submitting the form results in an endless loading..

Maybe someone knows how to get that to work, too?

I think think the code I posted is not working at all if you want to send an email including that data. Sorry, I was too rash 😶

The same for marcinwolejko's code. It is displaying the user data, but it is not included in mail when send on submit.

Hi innoads.
I've put the code in a custom element PHP/ HTML (CFv4), gave the element name: username, id: username.
Then in the email template action just put the username in brackets {username} and on test email I've got it to work and send all the data I needed.

Hi marcinwolejko,

I have set it up pretty similar in V5. Used your code. Only difference is that for custom element it is only possible to set the label in the designer (not name or id). It was however inserted automatically into the mail template like <tr><td>Custom</td><td>{custom}</td></tr> in Email element on setup page.

But does not send the value via mail, only the label Custom.

in v5 the custom element doesn't get a name or id, because it may not contain an input at all, or may contain many, so its the user's duty to include the input's name in the email if they do so!🙂

Regards,
Max

That makes sense and works fine with the username.

What I still do not get to work is joomla user's email. If I use email instead of name in marcinwolejko's code following is displayed in the form field as plain text (and email value is empty):

<script type='text/javascript'> <!-- var prefix = 'ma' + 'il' + 'to'; var path = 'hr' + 'ef' + '='; var addy92611 = 'MY-EMAIL' + '@'; addy92611 = addy92611 + 'gmail' + '.' + 'com'; document.write('<a ' + path + '\'' + prefix + ':' + addy92611 + '\'>'+ addy92611+ '<\/a>'); //-->\n </script><script type='text/javascript'> <!-- document.write('<span style=\'display: none;\'>'+ 'Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist vor Spambots geschützt! Zur Anzeige muss JavaScript eingeschaltet sein!'+ '</'+ 'span>'); //--> </script>

PS: The German output means "This e-mail adress is protected against spambots! To display it JavaScript must be enabled" (which is enabled in browser)

.. while no spam protection element is used.

Hi innoads,

Please see this FAQ

Bob