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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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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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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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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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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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Delete items from frontend with ajax
That looks perfect!
Obviously this code doesn't prompt the user to confirm deletion, but that can easily be added. (Or perhaps you stripped that out of your example.)
You are specifically doing two ...
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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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_includes/forms documentation on field types
For anyone looking for more information, you can find all of the form macros for _includes/forms here:
/craft/app/templates/_includes/forms.html
and the child templates here:
/craft/app/templates/...
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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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Ajax front-end user registration form - not returning JSON
EDIT
Craft 2.4 is now available, and the users/saveUser action will now return a JSON response for AJAX requests.
The original answer is still valid for <2.4 builds:
No, there's no way to ...
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How to populate Category field form frontend form?
Couple things. First, I believe you need to add an extra set of brackets to the name attribute. The reason being that category fields (as well as all 'related' fieldTypes) store more than one element, ...
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Get the ID of a new entry when it's saved
If you wanted to do this without having to write your own plugin, you can achieve this with a simple custom route and an extra parameter in your template.
Your hidden fields could look like:
<...
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What is the best way to append CSRF token without using a form?
You need to pass the token and name into javascript. Easiest is to just have a script tag somewhere.
<script type="text/javascript">
window.csrfTokenName = "{{ craft.config.csrfTokenName }}"...
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Allow user to change or delete their photo for their profile from the front end
FWIW, Niall, I've always just created an additional Profile field for people's images. The weird "not really an asset" aspect of the profile pictures is gone in Craft 3, but I found enough annoyances ...
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Display list of countries in form using a dropdown
This doesn't really address the problem either, but for anyone looking for "States" data (to replicate what Douglas McDonald did), here it is:
{"options":[{"label":"Alabama","value":"AL","default":""}...
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How do I retain form input values after submitting error-ridden form containing matrix field inputs
As you've discovered, your Matrix Field behaves a bit differently than many other basic fields. The Matrix Field, is composed of several Matrix Blocks and, like Entries themselves, Matrix Blocks are ...
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Is it possible to cache a faceted search form?
There're various ways of doing this. The simplest would be to just use the submitted slugs to generate a new cache key for each different search, like Jamie suggests. This is a very straightforward ...
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Sprout Forms: Localized version of form with translated labels?
Currently, Sprout Forms (v1.1.0) is translatable, but we have not yet added support for Craft's localization feature.
You can find a template of a translation file on our Github Account.
We want to ...
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What is the best way to append CSRF token without using a form?
This is the syntax for Craft 3:
<script type="text/javascript">
window.csrfTokenName = "{{ craft.app.config.general.csrfTokenName }}";
window.csrfTokenValue = "{{ craft.app.request....
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Sprout Form Not Saving Entries
Re-installing the Sprout Invisible Captcha plugin and including the following line before the closing tag got it working:
{{ craft.sproutInvisibleCaptcha.protect() }}
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Is it possible to POST to an action if the system is offline?
Completely untested, but something like this in your craft/config/general.php file should work:
return array(
'isSystemOn' => (isset($_REQUEST['action']) && !$_REQUEST['action'] != '...
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How do I relate a user to a channel entry from a form?
When saving an entry field type as part of your plug-in it needs to be an array of IDs in order to work correctly. This can either be handled via a plug-in or in the form by passing the value as an ...
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get post data after submitting User Profile Form for success message
Not possible – any input values added to your profile editing form (such as test in your case) will be included in the POST request to the users/saveUser controller action, but they won't actually be ...
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Change entry status on front end
You need to include a hidden field with the value of 0 before the checkbox to ensure that the value is included in the form data if the checkbox is unchecked. See the docs on templating for checkbox ...
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Editing entry in front-end
I managed to find a solution, using hidden input fields :) Thank you for all the help :)
Edit: Ended up solving this by using tables and saving the username and ID in that. Used a plugin called Super ...
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Update form entry using the Guest Entries plugin
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 ...
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