Dynamic Content in Webform Module?

By dignosis on 30 Dec 2008 at 18:55 UTC

I have a letter writing campaign on a client's site and I want the name of the person to dynamically be added to the message textarea to be sent with the letter.

I have tried

%session[first_name]
%get[first_name]

I've tried

$first_name

with PHP snippets turned on.

I'm a newbie and I'm baffled.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Comments

What is 'first_name'? A core

WorldFallz commented 30 December 2008 at 19:03

What is 'first_name'? A core profile field?

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it's one of the 'keys'

dignosis commented 30 December 2008 at 19:48

it's one of the 'keys' created in webform denoting the textfield containing the variable $first_name, one of the variables that i want to dynamically populate my letter.

thanks!

Ah ok-- but where are you

WorldFallz commented 30 December 2008 at 19:52

Ah ok-- but where are you capturing the first name of the user filling out the form? You can't prepopulate the field if you don't first capture the value somewhere.

right. the form looks

dignosis commented 30 December 2008 at 20:00

right. the form looks roughly like this

first_name
last_name
street
city
state
zip

message (which has editable content by default)

i want to add

first_name last_name
city, state

to the signature of the letter.

here's the URL

http://bootblago.com/node/7

duh-- the fog has finally

WorldFallz commented 30 December 2008 at 20:35

duh-- the fog has finally cleared, lol. What about $_POST [ 'first_name' ]?

i just tried that both with

dignosis commented 30 December 2008 at 20:46

i just tried that both with and without the <?php tags and it just tries to read those as cleartext.

i also tried it as %post[first_name] and no such luck either.

it seems like the textarea is not able to handle the PHP tags for some reason, which was why i was trying to use the % keys.

it's odd cuz the main descriptions, etc for the webform can handle PHP but the textarea itself doesn't seem to be able to collect any variables.

Ahh... we're looking in

WorldFallz commented 30 December 2008 at 21:58

Ahh... we're looking in different places. I think you need to do this in the form configuration 'additional processing' section which does accept php and provides the entire $form and $form_state variables for you to use.

this is probably a very

dignosis commented 3 January 2009 at 21:33

this is probably a very stupid question, but where would i find the form configuration 'additional processing' section?

hyelp.

dignosis commented 5 January 2009 at 15:52

hyelp.

Sorry-- i was away for the

WorldFallz commented 7 January 2009 at 15:34

Sorry-- i was away for the holidays.

The 'additional processing' textbox is in the 'Webform advanced settings' fieldset right on the node/edit form for the webform. Just edit the webform node, expand the fieldset, and you should see the 'additional processing' textbox at the bottom of the fieldset.