Displaying entry data in form

Hi Jennifer,

Give this a go: http://pastie.org/1736308

A couple things to note:

1. This does not support populating all field types. It'll do single line inputs like a charm and maybe a few others, but you will probably need to add support for other field types you are using.
2. You'll want to add a hidden field to your form that will store the original lead ID. Based on your code, I assume that your passing the original lead ID through the query string. If so, you can auto-populate this field like so: http://grab.by/9LFu

That works awesome on all the field types I need EXCEPT. Checkboxes. Here is the modification I made.... but, it doesn't work. Any ideas?

http://pastie.org/1741091

Thanks. Jennifer

Hmmm... can't figure out how that works??? I'm doing a database hit and pulling all the field data for the entry and through php code setting the values.

I'm trying to reference the checkboxes in the following way...

foreach($form['fields'] as &$field){

		        if(!isset($entry[$field['id']]))
		            continue;

			//NOTE: defaultValue works to set Text, TextArea, RadioButton, Date and Select Fields
				if ($field['type'] != 'checkbox') {
		        	$field['defaultValue'] = $entry[$field['id']];
				} else {
					//handle checkbox
					foreach($field['choices'] as $choice) {
						if ($choice['text'] == $entry[$field['id']]) {
							$choice['isSelected'] = "checked='checked'";
						}
					}
				}

		    }

Will something like this NOT work?

Jennifer

This is very similar functionality to what I need to add, Can you give me a sense of how and where you are then calling your functions?

I added the code from the pastebin into my functions.php file, however if I try to access a page such as http://www.mysite.com/edit-directory/?lid=12, it just loads an empty form.

Thanks,
brian

This is also similar to the type of functionality i need. Any chance someone could detail the steps required to get this working? I've added the hidden field to my form that will store the original lead ID.

Where should the function code be placed? Any other steps required?

Thanks.

We have this working for the most part but when setting the value, for example:

$field['value'] = 'test';
print_r($field['value']);

I get "test" as the value but it doesn't show it in the rendered form.

Thanks Carl. I have the following based on the samples earlier in this thread, in functions.php.
<script src='http://pastie.org/1849344.js'></script>

I see the values coming out of $entries properly but I can't seem to assign the value as the default value to the fields before rendering the form. I'm trying to pre-populate the form from a lead so that it's already pre-populated with data we already have at form render time. Thank you!

Hi,
I have very similar problem. I want to prepopulate a form with data I've pulled back from the database. This works fine except the final rendering.
The problem is that the form does not show the populated data.
In the pre-render function, I assign values and these seem to be fine - I used echo statements to verify this.
I simplified the problem so that if I do a direct string assignment to a text field :-
$form["fields"][ID_NAME]['defaultValue'] = "hello there !" ;
... nothing appears on the rendered form in the field indexed by ID_NAME.

Any ideas ? Am I doing something silly ?

Listening in...