Hi evka,

By custom form, do you mean a custom form block, External Form block, a form added to a single page, or something else?

Yes, sorry. It's a block template based on "Form Tableless Layout" add on.

Thank you for this detailed response. However, I still have a small problem. My controller is not calling action_submit_form($bID = false) function for some reason. Is it because the controller class extends Package rather than BlockController? Here's my brief example

use Concrete\Core\Block\BlockController;
class Controller extends Package
{
//some methods pertaining to package

public function action_submit_form($bID=false)
{
throw new Exception(t("Congratulations you're inside controller method!"));
}
}

@evka

Your block controller should extend BlockController.

Here is the documentation related to interactive blocks:
https://documentation.concrete5.org/developers/working-with-blocks/c...

@MrKDilkington

I hate to trouble you, but I am still having a hard time with this. I tried to understand interactive blocks, but I couldn't. I placed the controller.php to mysite/packages/my_package/blocks/form

inside controller.php I made sure to include
class Controller extends BlockController
{
public function action_submit_form($bID=false)
{
throw new Exception(t('Finally, calling the method.'));
}
}

However, action_submit_form is not firing. Maybe you can point me to a package that implements this type of interactive block functionality between a Package and BlockController? Much appreciate your time.

This might help...
https://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/contact-form-no-links1...
...or it might not. It ended up getting rather kludgy.

@Gondwana

Great! I'll try it. Thank you.

@Gondwana
I looked through it, but it did not work out.

I am trying to capture form values in my view.php file after submit button is clicked.
my_package/blocks/form/templates/my_package/view.php

I've tried to capture $_POST values in controller.php, but it is not working out regardless where I put it. I've even tried echoing form data in the core controller.php located in concrete/blocks/form/controller.php

This is really frustrating. I want to move forward and work on more complex stuff, but I can't get past simple capturing of form data. I am able to do this in Wordpress and Drupal much easier...just saying.

I could try pulling data from the database after it's submitted, but I am not seeing any unique IDs every time the form is submitted. The IDs (qsID, bsID, etc) seem to be repeating.

I am just born to be confused...I guess.

@MrKDilkington
What is 'your_post_array_key' ?

In the context of a typical form, I've tried 'Question1' and 'first_name'. It seems that $this->post() and $_POST are null after I hit the submit button.

Basically, I can create the entire form template with my own custom js and css, but if I need to grab form data after it's submitted, it is not possible, unless I completely scrap all the work up to this point and move away from the whole package-template idea.

my_package/blocks/form/templates/my_package/

@evka

I was using "your_post_array_key" as a descriptive placeholder for the $_POST superglobal array key.

Example: accessing $_POST directly

https://github.com/concrete5/concrete5/blob/5.7.x/web/concrete/block...

The code above could be replaced using $this->post() or $this->request->post():

If the post() method is not passed a $_POST array key, it returns the full $_POST array.

One way to test this and debug the values submitted to your form is by step debugging or using the dd() helper method (a combination of var_dump() and die()).
- add this code to the top of action_submit_form()

- fill out your form and submit it
- when action_submit_form() is called and starts processing the request, it will stop execution and var_dump() the $_POST array
- here is an example of what you might see

The same thing can be done if you want to get a specific $_POST array key value pair.

@MrKDilkington

When I add dd($this->post());
in concrete/blocks/form/controller.php action_submit_form() method
nothing happens. I know form is submitting because I am getting an email with form data.

If I add dd($this->post()); in my
my_package/blocks/form/templates/my_package/view.php after $success variable, I get
Missing argument 1 for Concrete\Core\View\AbstractView::post(),

@evka

I recommend reviewing your code for errors and issues.

After you submit the form and it is processed, the page is redirected. I don't believe the submission values are forwarded to the redirect page. On initial view, I am not sure that the Form block view has any $_POST values available.

You received the error because class BlockView extends AbstractView and AbstractView's post() method requires a $_POST array key as the argument.
http://docs.mnkras.com/class_concrete_1_1_core_1_1_view_1_1_abstrac...