Field Object

Introduction

The Field object contains all settings for a particular field. It is part of the Form Object and is available in most Gravity Forms hooks. It can be manipulated to dynamically change the way the field is displayed.

Usage

// returns the label of the first field on the form
$form['fields'][0]->label;
// displays the types of every field in the form
foreach ( $form['fields'] as $field ) {
   echo $field->type . '<br/>';
}

Properties

Basic Properties

  • adminLabel string When specified, the value of this property will be used on the admin pages instead of the label. It is useful for fields with long labels.
    Applies to: All fields
  • adminOnly bool Determines if this field should only visible on the administration pages. A value of 1 will mark the field as admin only and will hide it from the public form. Useful for fields such as “status” that help with managing entries, but don’t apply to users filling out the form. Applies to: All fields
  • allowsPrepopulate bool Determines if the field’s value can be pre-populated dynamically. 1 to allow field to be pre-populated, 0 otherwise. Applies to: All fields
  • choices array Contains the available choices for the field. For instance, drop down items and checkbox items are configured with this property. Applies to: select, checkbox, radio, post_category
$choices = $field->choices;
$choices[0]['text'] = 'Drop down item 1';
$field->choices = $choices;
  • Each choice in the array has the following Properties:
    • text string The text to be displayed to the user when displaying this choice.
    • value string The value to be stored in the database when this choice is selected. Note: This property is only supported by the Drop Down and Post Category fields. Checkboxes and Radio fields will store the text property in the database regardless of the value property
    • isSelected bool Determines if this choice should be selected by default when displayed. The value 1 will select the choice, 0 will display it unselected.
  • Conditional Logic array Controls the visibility of the field based on values selected by the user.
  • content string Content of an HTML block field to be displayed on the form
    Applies to: html
  • cssClass string Custom CSS class to be added to the <li> tag that contains the field. Useful to apply custom formatting to specific fields.
    Applies to: All fields
  • defaultValue string Contains the default value for the field. When specified, the field’s value will be populated with the contents of this property when the form is displayed.
    Applies to: hidden, text, website, phone, number, date, textarea, email, post_title, post_content, post_excerpt, post_tags, post_custom_field
  • description string Field description.
    Applies to: All fields
  • enableChoiceValue bool Determines if the field (checkbox, select or radio) have choice values enabled, which allows the field to have choice values different from the labels that are displayed to the user
    Applies to: checkbox, select and radio
  • errorMessage string Contains the message that is displayed for fields that fail validation
    Applies to: All fields except html, section and hidden
  • id integer Field Id
  • inputName string Assigns a name to this field so that it can be populated dynamically via this input name. Only applicable when allowsPrepopulate is set to 1.
    Applies to: All fields except section and captcha
  • isRequired bool Determines if the field requires the user to enter a value. 1 marks the field as required, 0 marks the field as not required. Fields marked as required will prevent the form from being submitted if the user has not entered a value in it.
    Applies to: All fields except section, html and captcha
  • label string Field label that will be displayed on the form and on the admin pages
    Applies to: All fields
  • noDuplicates bool Determines if the field allows duplicate submissions. 1 to prevent users from submitting the same value more than once, 0 to allow duplicate values.
    Applies to: hidden, text, website, phone, number, date, time, textarea, select, radio, email, post_custom_field
  • size string Determines the size of the field when displayed on the page Applies to: All fields except html, section and captcha
    Possible values: small, medium, large
  • type string The type of field to be displayed
    Applies to: All fields
    Possible values: html, hidden, section, text, website, phone, number, date, time, textarea, select, checkbox, radio, name, address, fileupload, email, post_title, post_content, post_excerpt, post_tags, post_category, post_image, post_custom_field, captcha

Post Fields

  • postCustomFieldName string The name of the Post Custom Field that the submitted value should be assigned to.
    Applies to: post_custom_field
  • displayAllCategories bool Determines if all categories should be displayed on the Post Category drop down. 1 to display all categories, 0 otherwise. If this property is set to 1 (display all categories), the Post Category drop down will display the categories hierarchically.
    Applies to: post_category
  • displayCaption bool Controls the visibility of the caption metadata for Post Image fields. 1 will display the caption field, 0 will hide it.
    Applies to: post_image
  • displayDescription bool Controls the visibility of the description metadata for Post Image fields. 1 will display the description field, 0 will hide it.
    Applies to: post_image
  • displayTitle bool Controls the visibility of the title metadata for Post Image fields. 1 will display the title field, 0 will hide it.
    Applies to: post_image
  • inputType string Contains a field type and allows a field type to be displayed as another field type. A good example is the Post Custom Field, that can be displayed as various different types of fields.
    Applies to: post_custom_field

Advanced Fields

Number

  • numberFormat string Specifies the format allowed for the number field. Applies to: number
    Possible values: decimal_dot, decimal_comma
    • decimal_dot: 9,999.99
    • decimal_comma: 9.999,99
  • rangeMin float Minimum allowed value for a number field. Values lower than the number specified by this property will cause the field to fail validation.
    Applies to: number
  • rangeMax float Maximum allowed value for a number field. Values higher than the number specified by this property will cause the field to fail validation.
    Applies to: number

Date

  • calendarIconType string Determines how the date field displays it’s calendar icon
    Applies to: date
    Possible values: calendar, custom, none
    • calendar: Displays the standard calendar icon shipped with Gravity Forms
    • custom: Allows administrators to specify a custom icon
    • none: Disables the calendar icon
  • calendarIconUrl string Contains the URL to the custom calendar icon. Only applicable when calendarIconType is set to custom
    Applies to: date
  • dateFormat string Determines how the date is displayed
    Applies to: date
    Possible values: mdy, dmy
    • mdy: 01/25/2010
    • dmy: 25/01/2010

Phone

  • phoneFormat string Determines the allowed format for phones. If the phone value does not conform with the specified format, the field will fail validation.
    Applies to: phone
    Possible values: standard, international
    • standard: Phone must be in the format: “(###)### – ####”
    • international: Phone can be in any format

Name and Address

  • nameFormat string Determines the format of the name field
    Applies to: name
    Possible values: normal, extended, simple
    • normal: Displays first and last name fields
    • extended: Displays prefix, first, last and suffix fields
    • simple: Displays one name field
  • addressType string
    Determines the type of address to be displayed.  
    Applies to: address
    Possible values: international, us, canadian
    • international: State input is displayed as a text field and the country drop down is displayed
    • us: State input is displayed as a drop down with US states and the country drop down is hidden
    • canadian: State input is displayed as a drop down with Canadian provinces and the country drop down is hidden
  • defaultCountry string Contains the country that will be selected by default. Only applicable when addressType is set to international
    Applies to: address
  • defaultProvince string Contains the province that will be selected by default. Only applicable when addressType is set to canadian
    Applies to: address
  • defaultState string Contains the state that will be selected by default. Only applicable when addressType is set to us
    Applies to: address
  • hideAddress2 bool Controls the visibility of the address 2 field. A value of 1 will hide the address 2 field, 0 will display it.
    Applies to: address
  • hideCountry Controls the visibility of the country drop down. A value of 1 will hide the country drop down, 0 will display it. Only applicable when addressType is set to international
    Applies to: address
  • hideState bool Controls the visibility of the state field. A value of 1 will hide the state field, 0 will display it.
    Applies to: address
  • inputs array For fields with multiple inputs (i.e. Name, Address), this property contains a list of inputs. This property also applies to the checkbox field as checkboxes are treated as multi-input fields (since each checkbox item is stored separately).
    Applies to: name, address, checkbox
$inputs = $field->inputs;
$inputs[0]['label'] = 'First Name';
//sets the label for the first input
$field->inputs = $inputs
  • Each input has the following properties.
    • id float The input id. Input Ids follow the following naming convention: “FIELDID.INPUTID” (i.e. 5.1), where FIELDID is the id of the containing field and INPUTID specifies the input field. For example, inputs for the name field are numbered as follows:
      • FIELDID.2 Name Prefix input id (i.e. 4.2)
      • FIELDID.3 First Name input id (i.e. 4.3)
      • FIELDID.6 Last Name input id (i.e. 4.6)
      • FIELDID.8 Name Suffix input id (i.e. 4.8)
    • label string Input label
    • name string When the field is configured with allowsPrepopulate set to 1, this property contains the parameter name to be used to populate this field (equivalent to the inputName property of single-input fields)

File Upload

  • allowedExtensions string Contains a comma delimited list of file extensions that are allowed to be uploaded. (i.e. jpg,gif,png)
    Applies to: fileupload, post_image

CAPTCHA

  • captchaType string Determines the type of CAPTCHA field to be used Possible values: recaptcha, simple_captcha, math
    NOTE: simple_captcha and math CAPTCHA fields are only available when the “Really Simple CAPTCHA” plugin is installed
  • captchaTheme string Determines the theme to be used for the reCAPTCHA field. Only applicable to the recaptcha captcha type.
    Possible values: red, white, blackglass, clean
  • simpleCaptchaSize string Determines the CAPTCHA image size. Only applicable to simple_captcha and math captcha types.
    Possible values: small, medium, large
  • simpleCaptchaFontColor Determines the image’s font color, in HEX format (i.e. #CCCCCC). Only applicable to simple_captcha and math captcha types.
  • simpleCaptchaBackgroundColor string Determines the image’s background color, in HEX format (i.e. #CCCCCC). Only applicable to simple_captcha and math captcha types.

Other

  • enablePasswordInput bool Determines if a text field input tag should be created with a ‘password’ type
    Applies to: text
  • maxLength integer Specifies the maximum number of characters allowed in a text or paragraph field.
  • enableEnhancedUI bool When set to true, the Chosen jQuery script will be applied to this field, enabling search capabilities to Drop Down fields and a more user-friendly interface for Multi Select fields.
    Applies to: select, multiselect

Pricing Fields

  • basePrice float Base price for a single product field.
    Applies to: singleproduct
  • disableQuantity bool Specifies if the quantity field on single product fields should be displayed or hidden.
    Applies to: singleproduct
  • productField integer Available only on Option fields. Specifies which product field the current option field is linked to.
    Applies to: option
  • enablePrice bool Specifies if a price can be entered for each field choice. This option is automatically turned ON for pricing fields when using Drop Down, Radio Button or Checkbox input types.
    Applies to: checkbox, select, radio

Add-On Fields

See the following pages for details about fields added by add-ons:

Field JSON

This example shows how a field object would look when formatted as JSON for use by the Gravity Forms CLI Add-On.

{
    "type": "select",
    "label": "My Dropdown",
    "choices": [{
        "text": "Choice 1",
        "value": "one"
    }, {
        "text": "Choice 2",
        "value": "two"
    }],
    "id": "2",
    "visibility": "visible",
    "formId": "14",
    "pageNumber": 1,
    "isRequired": false
}