Author Topic: How can one collect some information on homepage with completion on form page? (Read 1068 times)

admsh · September 01, 2011, 03:59:27 pm

Hope this will make sense - we're trying to build two action items on our homepage: a simple donation form, where an initial amount is already filled in, and an email collection field. In both cases, once the user hits submit, the next page should be the complete form - donation form will then have the amount that was entered on the homepage, newsletter signup will be populated with the email address, but other fields need to be completed (ZIP code is mandatory in our case).

The email collection form element looks like this:

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<form action="/civicrm/profile/edit" method="post" name="Edit" id="Edit" >
I've tried creating a simple form with the email field, changing the code above to the full path, but get an error. When I try to change "/civicrm/profile/edit" to "/civicrm/profile/edit?gid=13" (which is the ID of the form in question), I get to an empty form.

Any help would be greatly appreciated...

Donald Lobo · September 01, 2011, 04:12:59 pm

I would probably do the foll:

1. On submit of the below, use a redirect to the profile or contribution form and send the entered form values as GET variables, thus:

civicrm/profile/edit?reset=1&gid=13&email=USER_ENTERED_EMAIL

2. Implement a hook that checks for the GET variable and then sets the default email / donation amount

You can potentially geenralize this code quite nicely so others can use it. Please publish your code so others can benefit

lobo

jhofer · February 19, 2012, 08:50:25 am

Did you get this to work? Would be helpful to see the code.

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Author Topic: How can one collect some information on homepage with completion on form page? (Read 1068 times)

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