https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/create-static-field-names Gravity Support Forums Topic: Create "Static" Field Names? en-US Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:24:22 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/create-static-field-names#post-38651 Sat, 22 Oct 2011 12:22:30 +0000 Chris Hajer 38651@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I will bring this post to Carl's attention to consider your suggestion. Thank you. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/create-static-field-names#post-38649 Sat, 22 Oct 2011 12:12:52 +0000 Edh 38649@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Thanks, Chris.</p> <p>I had thought about using the CSS as a workaround, but then they (might) complicate the UI.</p> <p>Would it be possible in a future update to allow an advanced option to set either the field name or ID? (or does GF really use both for processing)?</p> <p>Thanks again,<br /> -Ed </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/create-static-field-names#post-38642 Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:41:41 +0000 Chris Hajer 38642@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>The field names are dynamically created for each form. I don't think it would be possible to assign static names. So, we need another approach.</p> <p>If you want to apply some processing to all forms, you can assign a custom CSS class in the form builder. Then, you can process any field with that specific CSS class. Here are a couple of snippets you can incorporate into your function.</p> <p>This will look through your form for any field with the custom CSS class <strong>my_class</strong> and apply your processing to that field:</p> <pre><code>[php] if(strpos($field[&#39;cssClass&#39;], &#39;my_class&#39;) === true) { // process this field }</code></pre> <p>and</p> <pre><code>[php] if($field[&#39;type&#39;] = &#39;select&#39;) { // or whatever TYPE of field you want to process // process this field }</code></pre> <p>You can combine them as well, like this:</p> <pre><code>[php] if($field[&#39;type&#39;] = &#39;select&#39; &amp;&amp; (strpos($field[&#39;cssClass&#39;], &#39;my_class&#39;) === true)) { // process this field }</code></pre> <p>Here's an example of looping through all the fields in a form, to see how it works:</p> <p><a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Dynamically_Populating_Drop_Down_Fields" rel="nofollow">http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Dynamically_Populating_Drop_Down_Fields</a></p> <p>You would be using the same process with gform_after_submission rather than gform_pre_render.</p> <p>Also, gform_after_submission is available in 1.6 and later, so be sure you're using the latest release candidate. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/create-static-field-names#post-38629 Fri, 21 Oct 2011 21:51:32 +0000 Edh 38629@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Is this possible?</p> <p>Thanks,<br /> -Ed </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/create-static-field-names#post-38249 Tue, 18 Oct 2011 20:50:59 +0000 Edh 38249@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>I am writing a plugin to post-process form data using a gform_after_submission hook.</p> <p>I am after several specific fields that will appear across multiple forms (but not always in the same placement)</p> <p>Is there any way (during form creation) to create a field name/ID to be a static value that the plugin can always find, so that it does not need to be updated every-time a new form is added (or changed)</p> <p>As an Example, the phone number of this form is the first field, but on other forms it it the 3rd field &amp; 11th field. I'd like to use the same line of code to get all of them regardless of the field position.<br /> $phoneNum = ($_POST['input_1']);</p> <p>hope this makes sense.</p> <p>Thanks!<br /> -Ed </p>