Solspace Support Forums

Can Form Helper Help me do this..

2008-06-25T09:31:23-08:00

I have a requirement from a client who wants to have a members only area of their site, I want to do this in expression engine as it is wot i know. They need:

Members are given a username and password
Members when logged in can edit and add details to their profile, the details will include the ability to add upto 3 images along with custom information such as industry type etc.
Member profiles can be searched and viewed
Members can view and use a forum

I have spent a few hours looking at the ee forums but their doesnt seem to be a simple way of doing this.

I am hoping that it can be Solspace to the rescue!!

Cheers

Steve

Field Labels with Form Helper?

2008-07-07T08:05:53-08:00

Is there any way to retrieve the field label (the content that the {field_label} tag would produce if one was using the {custom_fields} loop) for a specified custom field using form helper? Something like (note the which="label”):


{exp:form_helper:field_grabber field_name="summary" which="label"}

Categories not updating on submit

2008-06-30T19:20:05-08:00

Folks:

The form works great except for one thing: The categories are not updated when the form is saved. Additional selections are added but deselected options are not removed.

I did make a slight adjustment from radio buttons to checkboxes but that was necessary to accommodate more than one category selection/ The code:

{exp:form_helper:categories entry_id="{entry_id}" }
<input type="checkbox" name="category[]" value="{cat_id}" {checked}>{cat_name}
{/exp:form_helper:categories}

Any help would be great.

URL problems on edit

2008-07-01T06:12:57-08:00

Folks:

I’m not sure why this is happening. One of the custom fields holds a web address. This address is automatically turned into a link.

When I use Form Helper to edit the address the address is not displayed. Instead,


<a href=

appears in the field and the rest of the address and closing tag


http://www.google.com" />

appear below the field as text.

Source code looks like this:

<input style="width:500px" type="text" name="field_id_6" value="<a href="http://www.google.com">http://www.google.com</a>" />

Form Helper code looks like this:

{exp:form_helper:field_parser}<input style="width:500px" type="text" name="{exp:form_helper:field_grabber field_name="website"}" value="{website}" />{/exp:form_helper:field_parser}

Any ideas?

Weird javascriot when editing incldues an email address

2008-04-25T13:14:15-08:00

Hello again

I’m using Form Helper to edit entries. In the admin, I have “Automatically turn URLs and email addresses into links?” marked to Yes. When Yes is selected, and I try and edit a page that has an email address on it, I get a bunch of weird gobbledygook in the edit box. Looks like this:

email for FULL NAME:  
//<![CDATA[
var l=new Array();
l[0]='>';l[1]='a';l[2]='/';l[3]='<';l[4]=' 116';l[5]=' 101';l[6]=' 110';l[7]=' 46';l[8]=' 101';l[9]=' 110';l[10]=' 105';l[11]=' 97';l[12]=' 109';l[13]=' 45';l[14]=' 109';l[15]=' 111';l[16]=' 99';l[17]=' 115';l[18]=' 117';l[19]=' 115';l[20]=' 64';l[21]=' 110';l[22]=' 101';l[23]=' 115';l[24]=' 110';l[25]=' 101';l[26]=' 114';l[27]='>';l[28]='"';l[29]=' 116';l[30]=' 101';l[31]=' 110';l[32]=' 46';l[33]=' 101';l[34]=' 110';l[35]=' 105';l[36]=' 97';l[37]=' 109';l[38]=' 45';l[39]=' 109';l[40]=' 111';l[41]=' 99';l[42]=' 115';l[43]=' 117';l[44]=' 115';l[45]=' 64';l[46]=' 110';l[47]=' 101';l[48]=' 115';l[49]=' 110';l[50]=' 101';l[51]=' 114';l[52]=':';l[53]='o';l[54]='t';l[55]='l';l[56]='i';l[57]='a';l[58]='m';l[59]='"';l[60]='=';l[61]='f';l[62]='e';l[63]='r';l[64]='h';l[65]='a ';l[66]='<';
for (var i = l.length-1; i >= 0; i=i-1){ 
if (l[i].substring(0, 1) == ' ') [removed]("&#"+unescape(l[i].substring(1))+";"); 
else [removed](unescape(l[i]));
}
//]]>

But, if I tell the system to not parse the email addresses, by selecting No in the admin, this dissapears. And I can then edit properly using Form Helper. I do not see this wen I edit from the CP, only using Form Helper.

Thank you for your help!

A simple matter: SAEF allow comments checkbox doesn’t work for me.

2008-01-06T23:26:10-08:00

Hi!

I just tried Form Helper and got Stand Alone Entry Forms working. Thanks to you guys!

Though, I somehow can’t get my Allow Comments checkbox to work.

<h2>Discussion </h2>
<input type="checkbox" name="allow_comments" class="checkbox" checked="{checked}"  value="{allow_comments}" />

This returns the following code and a checked checkbox, even though the value is set to ‘n’.

Discussion
<input type="checkbox" name="allow_comments" class="checkbox" checked="{checked}" value="n" />

Note that the value for checked is {checked}, the variable doesn’t return any value.
What am I doing wrong?

And… what is the suggested donation for this plugin?

Thank you!

Combo box value reverting using Preview

2008-06-20T10:15:03-08:00

EE 1.6.3, FH 1.9

I understand the code pulls from the db on a refresh, so when using the built-in {preview} call/submit in EE SAEF, the preview shows the change, but the drop down field value gets reset to the previous value and thus if the user doesn’t change again before submitting their change for that field “basically” doesn’t occur.

So this is more of a quick question on whether there is some simple trickery with the FH code that I can preserve this OR is the only to build my own PHP/javascript based preview?

I know we keep trying to ring more and more out of FH… you got to love feature creep! Thanks again for a great plug.

Backslashes being removed

2008-06-17T23:50:38-08:00

EEv1.6.3 with FH v1.9
on a textarea field set as br (although setting as xhtml doesn’t seem to make a difference)

I’m putting in the line:


\servernamefolder1folder2

in an edit SAEF. I submit/update and the entry looks as entered above. However, when I go to edit, the textarea field populates as:


servernamefolder1folder2

each single backslash is stripped and only 1 left from a double backslash it left. I’ve tried leaving out the ‘parser’ enteries even though I’m using the default so only P and BR tags are supposed to be removed, but it doesn’t seem to make a difference. Editing thorugh EE CP doesn’t seem to effect the content (although the ‘view’ after update in the CP shows the same, but viewing from the ../index.php/weblog/entry_id/xx show’s its fine).

So basically I’m assuming the grabber function, when pulling the content to populate the textarea field, is stripping out the backslashes. I’ve tried enterying them in with the


&#92;

, but they get translated to backslashes in the edit form. Fine for the first edit, but they get posted back to the entry as actual backslashes, thus the next edit, they get stripped.

Anyway to stop this, or am I missing something obvious?

Textarea formatting Problem: TinyMCE

2008-06-16T10:45:23-08:00

Hey there,

I have a custom field with formatting set to none. I’m using a standalone Edit form (formhelper), and the content of this field sometimes contains preformatted text blocks.

When I edit the entry in the Control Panel, it preserves the preformatted text, but in the formhelper form, it strips out the HTML between the PRE tags.

Example, here is the field data as entered:

<pre>
<xml>Here is a sample of XML code</xml>
<b>Here is some bold text</b>
</pre>

The EE control panel honors the formatting as ‘none’, so in my wysiwyg editor, the XML and Bold tags are preserved between the preformatted tags.

But when editing the entry in the standalone form, it converts the B tag to STRONG, and removes the XML tags.

Any ideas on how to preserve the raw html code when using formhelper?

FYI, here is my template code:

<p>KB Content<br />
<textarea  dir='ltr'  style='width:100%;' name='{exp:form_helper:field_grabber field_name="kb_answer"}' id='{exp:form_helper:field_grabber field_name="kb_answer"}' cols='90' rows='22' class='textarea'>
 {exp:form_helper:field_parser}{kb_answer}{/exp:form_helper:field_parser}
</textarea></p>
<input type="hidden" name="{exp:form_helper:field_grabber field_name='kb_answer' which='format'}" value="none" />

Tx.

Extra spacing populating at begining of custom field content - !solved!

2008-06-11T03:55:03-08:00

First time setting up an SAEF entry editor with Form Helper. Everything seems to work, but when the edit form renders, the custom fields (textareas in my case) are pre-pended with extra spaces and carriage returns. The following code shows my two textareas. The first field has data and the second one is empty from creation. However, when I load the edit page, the first field is pre-pended with about 28 spaces, a carriage return, 28 spaces and then what seems to be a tab. The second field which is supposed to be empty is populated with 28, carriage return, 28, tab and 28 spaces.

Below is the calling code, anyone have any ideas? Type of fields in EE is


auto <br />

. I’ve tried manually adding the


parse="<br />|<p>"

which is supposed to be default if not specified, but no changes. Odd thing is if I update, this pre-pended spacing is not added (at least not viewable) when viewing the entry, almost like its being stripped back out.

So end result it doesn’t affect much, but it confuses the users. Any ideas?

<tr>
  <td class="form_outer">Body: <br />
   <textarea name="{exp:form_helper:field_grabber field_name='news-body'}"  rows="20" cols="70" onclick="setFieldName(this.name)" />
 {exp:form_helper:field_parser}
  {news-body}
 {/exp:form_helper:field_parser}
   </textarea>
   <input type="hidden" name="{exp:form_helper:field_grabber field_name='news-body' which='format'}" value="br" />
  </td>
 </tr>
  
 <tr>
  <td class="form_outer">Update:<br />
   <textarea name="{exp:form_helper:field_grabber field_name='news-update'}" rows="10" cols="70" />
 {exp:form_helper:field_parser}
  {news-update}
 {/exp:form_helper:field_parser}
   </textarea>
   <input type="hidden" name="{exp:form_helper:field_grabber field_name='news-update' which='format'}" value="br" />
 </td>
 </tr>