Update form entry using the Guest Entries plugin

Question

I am trying to create a form that anyone can submit regardless if they are logged in or not. I found the Pixel & Tonic Guest Entries plugin for this. Now that I've installed and configured the plugin updating entries doesn't work. Whenever I want to update an entry a new one is created instead.

Here is the code I use:

<form method="post" accept-charset="UTF-8" id="loginForm">
    {{ getCsrfInput() }}    

    <input type="hidden" name="entryId" value="88">        

    <input type="hidden" name="action" value="guestEntries/saveEntry">
    <input type="hidden" name="redirect" value="entryform?hash={{ hash }}">
    <input type="hidden" name="sectionId" value="3">
    <input type="hidden" name="enabled" value="1">

    <input type="hidden" name="title" />

    <label for="text-naamSite">Wat is de naam van uw organisatie/onderneming?</label>
    <input type="text" id="text-naamSite" name="fields[naamSite]" />

    <button type="reset" style="float:left;">Reset</button>

    <button id="send-btn" type="submit">Opslaan</button>

    <div class="clear"></div>
</form>

Thanks!

Answer 1

In Craft 3 / Guest Entries 2, you could pull this off without hacking Guest Entries by writing a module that listens to the beforeSaveEntry event, and sets the id on the entry.

use Craft;
use craft\elements\Entry;
use craft\guestentries\controllers\SaveController;
use craft\guestentries\events\SaveEvent;
use yii\base\Event;
use yii\web\BadRequestHttpException;

// ...

public function init()
{
    // ...

    Event::on(SaveController::class, SaveController::EVENT_BEFORE_SAVE_ENTRY, function(SaveEvent $event) {
        $request = Craft::$app->getRequest();

        // Get the entry being edited
        $entryId = $request->getValidatedBodyParam('entryId');
        $currentEntry = Entry::find()->id($entryId)->anyStatus()->one();

        if (!$currentEntry) {
            throw new BadRequestHttpException('Invalid entry ID: ' . $entryId);
        }

        // Populate the guest submission with the entry ID, UID, and content ID
        $event->entry->id = $currentEntry->id;
        $event->entry->uid = $currentEntry->uid;
        $event->entry->contentId = $currentEntry->contentId;
    });
}

Then in your form, add an entryId input set to the hashed entry ID.

<input type="hidden" name="entryId" value="{{ entry.id|hash }}">

It’s important that you hash the entry ID and use getValidatedBodyParam() instead of getBodyParam() so users can’t repurpose the form to edit any entry on your site.

Answer 2

I've figured it out

Go to GuestEntriesController.php and add this line of code on the 182nd line

$entry->id = craft()->request->getPost('entryId');

Then add an hidden input field with the id you wish to edit like so:

<input type="hidden" name="entryId" value="{{ entry.id }}">