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#1 2009-06-07 13:58:47

yeahdisk

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Registered: 2006-01-23

Posts: 17

Passing information between different instances of zem_contact forms

(Dear Mods: I originally put this post in the zem_contact Author Support thread – but I figure that it is probably a broader question than fits there so I posted it here as well. Please feel free to delete one of the posts if it is in an offending section)

Hi – I’m trying to split my existing contact form into 3 parts – and I would like to pass a text-field variable from the first part into the other parts…

Essentially, I want the first part to collect the USER ID and 2 other pieces of info.

Something like

<txp:zem_contact from="defaultfromemail" subject="User Details" to="mycompanyemail" >
       <txp:zem_contact_text label="USER ID" />
       <txp:zem_contact_text break="" label="Idea" />
       <txp:zem_contact_text break="" label="Timeframe" />
       <txp:zem_contact_submit label="Submit" />
</txp:zem_contact>

Then, when the user clicks submit, they should be presented with the second form.

I would like the text entered into the USER ID field from the first page to be pre-populated into the form on the second page??

Something like

<txp:zem_contact from="defaultfromemail" subject="User Details" to="myothercompanyemail" >
      <txp:zem_contact_text label="USER ID" />  //  This should be prepopulated with the USER ID entered on the first page?
      <txp:zem_contact_text break="" label="Company Name" />
      <txp:zem_contact_text break="" label="Job Title" />
      <txp:zem_contact_submit label="Submit" />
</txp:zem_contact>

Then, a third and final page with a separate form again – again prepopulated with the original USER ID in a text field??

Is that possible to pass variables between zem_contact using (i’m guessing) some txp:php tags??? And what would be the best way to go between forms? Would it be tp include the next zem_contact form in the ‘thanks’ form of the previous one???

I hope that makes sense – any help would really be appreciated!

(I am doing this because my existing form is a little bit long and unwieldly – If I can split it up it would really help me and my users).

Last edited by yeahdisk (2009-06-07 13:59:40)

#2 2009-06-08 16:57:42

MattD

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From: Monterey, California

Registered: 2008-03-21

Posts: 1,254

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Re: Passing information between different instances of zem_contact forms

Maybe you should look at a javascript/css solution to simulate the mutliple steps. Something like this wizard or this other wizard which use jQuery.

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