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I'm using the form builder with the addition of the Ajax Form add-on from jordanlev (kudos for that by the way jordan).

I have a really simple contact form in the footer of the site and I need to change the value attribute in one field and add a default piece of text in the textarea. So basically:

<input type="email" value="" id="Question1" name="Question1">

to this:

<input type="email" value="Email Address" id="Question1" name="Question1">

And the text area from: <textarea style="width:95%" rows="3" cols="50" id="Question2" name="Question2"></textarea>

To this:

<textarea style="width:95%" rows="3" cols="50" id="Question2" name="Question2">Message</textarea>

Where and what do I need to change these default values?

Thanks in advance for any pointers...

Cheers - Ben
benfrainuk
 
siteadvice replied on at Permalink Reply
siteadvice
Did you ever come up with a good way of doing this?

I love making sites for Concrete5 but the control and styling of forms is a lot less flexible than I'd like.

My best option ishttps://github.com/jordanlev/c5_custom_contact_form... but that's still not really what you were looking for when you posted this...
benfrainuk replied on at Permalink Reply
benfrainuk
No, ended up doing it with jQuery (far from ideal but my PHP powers are weak)
BHWW replied on at Permalink Reply
BHWW
Hi I have managed to get this working... in a way... here goes...

from the file /concrete/core/controllers/blocks/form_minisurvey.php

Copy the function including lines 264-285 ish, into your custom form block controller

case 'text':
               $val=($_REQUEST['Question'.$msqID])?Loader::helper('text')->entities($_REQUEST['Question'.$msqID]):'';
               return '<textarea name="Question'.$msqID.'" id="Question'.$msqID.'" cols="'.$questionData['width'].'" rows="'.$questionData['height'].'" style="width:95%">'.$val.'</textarea>';
            case 'url':
               $val=($_REQUEST['Question'.$msqID])?$_REQUEST['Question'.$msqID]:'';
               return '<input name="Question'.$msqID.'" id="Question'.$msqID.'" type="url" value="'.stripslashes(htmlspecialchars($val)).'" />';
            case 'telephone':
               $val=($_REQUEST['Question'.$msqID])?$_REQUEST['Question'.$msqID]:'';
               return '<input name="Question'.$msqID.'" id="Question'.$msqID.'" type="tel" value="'.stripslashes(htmlspecialchars($val)).'" />';
            case 'email':
               $val=($_REQUEST['Question'.$msqID])?$_REQUEST['Question'.$msqID]:'';
               return '<input name="Question'.$msqID.'" id="Question'.$msqID.'" type="email" value="'.stripslashes(htmlspecialchars($val)).'" />';   
            case 'date':
               $val=($_REQUEST['Question'.$msqID])?$_REQUEST['Question'.$msqID]:'';
               return $datetime->date('Question'.$msqID,($val!==''?$val:'now'));
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Then change the instances of $val to $questionData['question']

This will then put your question title as the default "value", you maybe able to play with this to get another result, but thats all i needed to do.

Hope it helps

Ben