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How do you create a front-end form for users to submit content?
If the users are authenticated and have permission to post to the event section, you would use an entry form to accept posts from the front end.
Example from the above linked page...
<form method=...
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Does anyone have a working example of frontend form with multiple file upload, drag & drop etc?
OK, figured it out (or at least it works, so correct me if a better way is available):
This method assumes logged in frontend users, not sure if it's possible for guests, have not tested that. Might ...
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Allow user to change or delete their photo for their profile from the front end
Before you can allow a user to manage their profile photo in your front-end profile edit form, be sure to update your form tag with the enctype="multipart/form-data" parameter:
<form method="post" ...
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Is it possible to change a user's password in the front-end?
It is! To do so, they will have to be logged in and input their old password. They need the old password to change their email or update a password.
Here's an example:
{% macro errorList(errors) %}
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Display list of countries in form using a dropdown
This is not the answer you were looking for, but if you decide to just go with a normal drop-down, then you can paste the following into the dropdown field in the database. This would go in the ...
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User registration: How do implement "Confirm password" and "Confirm email"?
If anyone is interested in confirming passwords still, I have wrote a plugin which does just this, it doesn't rely on it's own controller either so there is no bypassing of Crafts own workings :)
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How do I enable redactor rich text editor in a front-end form?
It’s technically possible to include Craft’s copy of Redactor on the front end:
{% includeJsResource "lib/redactor/redactor.js" %}
{% includeCssResource "lib/redactor/redactor.css" %}
<textarea ...
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Allow user to change or delete their photo for their profile from the front end
If you want a user to be able to upload a profile photo from the front-end, the you should be able to add enctype="multipart/form-data" to your form that saves your user and have a file input called '...
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How do you delete assets from a frontend form?
You can create a POST request via Ajax to the assets/deleteFile (Craft 2) / assets/delete-asset (Craft 3) controller action:
Craft 2:
$('#delete-file').click(function() {
var data = {
...
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Can I accept file uploads using the Craft Guest Entries plugin?
I don't see why you couldn't. That is unless the plugin needs to handle file uploads as opposed to the Entry Model.
Take a look at Uploading Files from a Form. You need to make sure your form tag has ...
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Front end edit: entry doesn’t get saved
I've run into this situation in various scenarios as well where a front-end entry form fails to save anything and just seems to be reloading the page. Almost always it has had to do with overlooking a ...
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Populating tables and matrix fields using GuestEntries
See here for example front-end HTML code for all of Craft's default field types: https://straightupcraft.com/articles/craft-cms-field-guide-twig?view=input
Matrix:
{# You need to include the 'type' ...
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Forms are triggering CSRF Protection. Why would CSRF Protection trigger false positives?
We got this sorted before I finished my Stack Exchange question so I figured I'd share if anyone else runs into similar behavior.
After some troubleshooting, we learned that the issue here was that ...
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What are the different scenarios to plan for when using $allowAnonymous in a controller?
Here are the new constants that Craft 3.2 introduced:
const ALLOW_ANONYMOUS_NEVER = 0;
const ALLOW_ANONYMOUS_LIVE = 1;
const ALLOW_ANONYMOUS_OFFLINE = 2;
By default every controller will have the ...
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Email Notification When Post Submitted
Currently there isn't a native way to do this, but you could write a plugin which would work like this:
Wait for an event like: content.onSaveContent or entries.onSaveEntry
Get all users from a ...
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Unsure whether to use Sprout Forms or code forms regularly
Sprout Forms offers you a lot of the same functionality as standard Craft Entries. Both Sprout Forms and Entries allow you to create front-end forms that allow users to submit data to the database. ...
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Email Notification When Post Submitted
For those that are looking for a plugin that simply notifies users (without all the overhead), take a look at Brief. It's a super-light plugin that simply notifies users whenever a new entry is added ...
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How do I setup a password administration workflow using setPasswordPath and a forgot password page?
The form that lives at setPasswordPath assumes that the user arrived there by clicking on the link in the validation email that was sent to the provided email address. That link includes a code=...
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How do you delete entries from a frontend form?
It's going to be virtually identical to this answer, with the exception that you're posting to the 'entries/deleteEntry' controller action instead of 'assets/deleteFile' and you're posting the '...
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How do I extend another plugin?
I believe what you asking about are Hooks and Events. Craft has several of them listed in the Hooks Reference and Events Reference. And Craft also allows us to add Hooks and Events in our plugins, ...
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Edit a table field type from the front end
Each input name needs to have the following format:
fields[FieldHandle][RowId][ColId]
It doesn’t matter what you set RowId to, as long as it’s the same for all of the columns in that row. (Table ...
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Update form entry using the Guest Entries plugin
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\...
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How does Craft automatically wrap `fields[]` around name attributes?
I believe its the namespace twig template function - and fields typically use the default namespace as fields. This is defined under templates/_includes/fields.html
Looking at that file (below), you'...
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Looking for an advanced form plugin for Craft CMS
To answer your questions in regards to how they will fit with Freeform...
If what you mean by pre-populating fields with existing data is being able to fill fields with data from other elements, ...
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Can you set the redirect path for system forgot password form?
You can. You have to build some front end forms:
Forgot Password Form (http://buildwithcraft.com/docs/templating/forgot-password-form)
Set Password Form (http://buildwithcraft.com/docs/templating/set-...
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Where do I begin troubleshooting a Form in Craft that is redirecting to /login on iPad and iPhone?
Just an idea, but are you Allowing Anonymous Access to Actions? Maybe you are logged in on your Desktop, but not on your iPhone.
Example:
protected $allowAnonymous = true;
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Category as select dropdown box
So looks like I was just missing the extra [] in the name.
fields[borough][]
Since categories are arrays the name also needed to be an array!
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Front end edit: entry doesn’t get saved
The possible reason for no errors being shown is that you re-define your entry variable before displaying the errors. Make sure you have
{% if entry is not defined %}
{% set entry = craft.entries....
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where can I find manual for craft forms
At this time, there is no manual for it.
It's an incredibly useful chunk of code, but it's buried pretty deep in the system. I think the belief is that "if you're capable of finding it, you're ...
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How do you correctly handle errors using PT Contact Form when submitting via AJAX?
If you want the error messages to be displayed identical to P&T's template/macro default, this should do the trick:
$(function(){
$('#ajax-form').submit( function(ev) {
// Prevent ...
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