https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/edit-form-object Gravity Support Forums Topic: Edit Form Object en-US Sun, 19 Apr 2026 23:19:52 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/edit-form-object#post-31083 Wed, 27 Jul 2011 15:46:38 +0000 jorgep 31083@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>@Alex thanks for your reply, I'm totally going to try the XML solution.</p> <p>My original plan was to unserialize the data, modify it (as a PHP object) and serialize it back. The unserialize process is what was failing. I was doing everything outside of WordPress, so I'm also going to try to do it inside WP using the GF functions.</p> <p>I'll let you know how it goes. Thanks again. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/edit-form-object#post-31066 Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:38:06 +0000 Alex Cancado 31066@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I am not sure why your serialization isn't working. Like you have seen, if you can save the form via the Editor, it is performing a serialization. I am not sure why you would get an error.<br /> However, I am not sure that is the best way to do this as manually changing that serialized string is very prone for errors. A better alternative would be to export the form, change the XML and re-import the form. Then update the form IDs of your new form to match the old form (so that your entries get associated to the newly imported form) </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/edit-form-object#post-30961 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 11:09:26 +0000 Carl Hancock 30961@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I'll have our lead developer take a look at this and respond. He won't be in the office until later this afternoon, so watch for a response sometime them with input from him. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/edit-form-object#post-30931 Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:06:47 +0000 jorgep 30931@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hey guys,</p> <p>I used Gravity Forms to create huge (massive) forms for an insurance client. After a lot of debugging and manual work the forms are almost working but i need to make a couple of changes to all 14 forms and doing it through the form editor is impossible.</p> <p>I'm trying to get the form from the db from "wp_rg_form_meta.display_meta", unserialize it, edit the fields manually, serialize it and update the db. But the unserialization process is not working for most of the forms.</p> <p>When I try to unserialize one form I get an error like this one:<br /> `Notice: unserialize(): Error at offset 2 of 52 bytes in file.php on line 130</p> <p>I've only got one form to unserialize properly, which tells me it has something to do with the data.</p> <p>I checked GF code to see if you had anything special going on with the serialize/unserialize process, but you use the standar functions.</p> <p>The forms all work fine when I preview them, so I have no idea what's the difference between your code and what I'm trying to do.</p> <p>Have you encounter this problem before? Is there anything you can do to help?</p> <p>Here's a link to an export of two of the forms: <a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4524488/gravityforms-export-2011-07-25.xml" rel="nofollow">http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4524488/gravityforms-export-2011-07-25.xml</a></p> <p>ATV is one of the forms that works fine when I unserialize it<br /> Auto is one of the forms that fails to unserialize</p> <p>I'd appreciate anything you can do. Thanks in advance. </p>