https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/dynamically-populating-field-with-variable-through-a-php-embed Gravity Support Forums Topic: Dynamically Populating Field with Variable through a PHP Embed en-US Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:47:41 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/dynamically-populating-field-with-variable-through-a-php-embed#post-32449 Sat, 13 Aug 2011 08:13:07 +0000 David Smith 32449@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hi Steve,</p> <p>Assuming that your "echo $name;" is working and the $name variable is correctly being retrieved from the outside database, declaring the $name as a global inside the <strong>jobname()</strong> function should allow you to access that variable. Currently, the <strong>$name</strong> variable is not within the scope of the jobname() function.</p> <pre><code>[php] function jobname($value){ global $name; return $name; }</code></pre> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/dynamically-populating-field-with-variable-through-a-php-embed#post-32340 Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:18:49 +0000 stevebenjamins 32340@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Ideally yes, but $name in this case is drawing from an outside database:</p> <pre><code>$name = $this-&gt;get_field(&#39;name&#39;);</code></pre> <p>And I can't use the database object from within the function :) </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/dynamically-populating-field-with-variable-through-a-php-embed#post-32321 Thu, 11 Aug 2011 16:59:35 +0000 Chris Hajer 32321@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Shouldn't $name be inside your function? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/dynamically-populating-field-with-variable-through-a-php-embed#post-32300 Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:10:35 +0000 stevebenjamins 32300@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hi, I just upgraded my license to developer and am finding more and more great uses for Gravity Forms every day. Thanks for doing great work :)</p> <p>I'm having some difficulty using a PHP variable to dynamically populate a field. When I use this code:<br /> <pre><code>add_filter(&quot;gform_field_value_jobname&quot;, &quot;jobname&quot;); function jobname($value){ return &quot;test&quot;; }</code></pre> <p>It dynamically populates the field perfectly. But when I try to dynamically populate with a variable:</p> <pre><code>$name = $this-&gt;get_field(&#39;name&#39;); echo $name; add_filter(&quot;gform_field_value_jobname&quot;, &quot;jobname&quot;); function jobname($value){ return $name; }</code></pre> <p>It doesn't work. I know $value is set, I just can't seem to figure out how to get $value dynamically populated!</p> <p>Any thoughts? </p>