Gravity Support Forums Topic: Gravityfroms as a cutom bib maker?

Gravity Support Forums Topic: Gravityfroms as a cutom bib maker? https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/gravityfroms-as-a-cutom-bib-maker Gravity Support Forums Topic: Gravityfroms as a cutom bib maker? en-US Mon, 20 Apr 2026 01:23:53 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 <![CDATA[Search]]> q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php rusti on "Gravityfroms as a cutom bib maker?" https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/gravityfroms-as-a-cutom-bib-maker#post-4768 Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:02:20 +0000 rusti 4768@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ Hi again guys! I finally implemented this form on a working site and I have everything working honky dori, but the Date is spit out as 2010-4-19. I'd really like to have it output the date 4-19-2010. Can anything be done? live example and finished product <a href="http://www.fnwsu.org/sheldon/simple-citation-maker/" rel="nofollow">http://www.fnwsu.org/sheldon/simple-citation-maker/</a> Carl Hancock on "Gravityfroms as a cutom bib maker?" https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/gravityfroms-as-a-cutom-bib-maker#post-3031 Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:13:45 +0000 Carl Hancock 3031@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ We would have to see your form setup in order to determine the problem. Use the Contact Us form and send us a WordPress login for this site, describe what you are trying to do, and we can take a look. seemsse on "Gravityfroms as a cutom bib maker?" https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/gravityfroms-as-a-cutom-bib-maker#post-3030 Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:03:31 +0000 seemsse 3030@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ I'm attempting to send data to a new page, but it keeps going back to a blank form page after submitting the form. I have setup all the variables to be passed and setup the redirect page. Kevin Flahaut on "Gravityfroms as a cutom bib maker?" https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/gravityfroms-as-a-cutom-bib-maker#post-1058 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:57:03 +0000 Kevin Flahaut 1058@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ Wonderful. It looks great! Thanks for the link and I'm really glad you're enjoying the plugin. Let us know if we can help out any other way. rusti on "Gravityfroms as a cutom bib maker?" https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/gravityfroms-as-a-cutom-bib-maker#post-1042 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:17:45 +0000 rusti 1042@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ It's finally finished, with a slight name change so the links above won't work. Here it is <a href="http://www.greenermountain.com/simple-citation-maker/" rel="nofollow">http://www.greenermountain.com/simple-citation-maker/</a> I'd like to thank you guys for putting out such a great product, I thought long and hard about the developer license, but I'm glad I have it now. Now to find more ways to use it to get my moneys worth! :) Thanks for all the help. I have started doing screencast tutorials of various WP things. (you can see some of the efforts here <a href="http://www.greenermountain.com/blog/" rel="nofollow">http://www.greenermountain.com/blog/</a> )I will put together a video tutorial on how I accomplished this and I'll be sure to give you the credit you deserve Kevin! Kevin Flahaut on "Gravityfroms as a cutom bib maker?" https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/gravityfroms-as-a-cutom-bib-maker#post-1025 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:39:14 +0000 Kevin Flahaut 1025@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ You're right, you're very close. Nice job. It looks like the query string isn't passing the value for the website url and date. example: ?sitename=MySite&websiteurl=&pubdate= This might be that you either 1. Copied my example exactly or 2. Changed field names and didn't update the query string afterward. Go to the confirmation tab to where you edit the query string and remove the values for the URL and date {Website URL:3}, etc. Position your cursor where you removed each value, then click on the "insert form field" drop down and select the appropriate field from the list. It will insert the correct field ID in that spot. Do this for both the website and date fields. Save the form and try it again. You should be passing the correct form field values in the query string at this point. Let us know if that works for you. rusti on "Gravityfroms as a cutom bib maker?" https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/gravityfroms-as-a-cutom-bib-maker#post-1018 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:10:00 +0000 rusti 1018@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ Alright Kevin, First I want to say thank you. I'm almost there, i'm so close I can taste it. I'll apologize for my limited vocabulary now, I've always been scared of forms (that's why I bought gravityforms!?) but I will try to explain this. It is working, but there is a small problem. Only the site name is getting passed as variables to the form output. 'site name' is the only thing output, the other two are blank tags. So, I'm guessing there is a disparity between my assigning names to the data and what i have output? The live site can be seen here: <a href="http://www.greenermountain.com/simple-bibliography/" rel="nofollow">http://www.greenermountain.com/simple-bibliography/</a> Here are the php tags i inserted into my page template: <pre><code><div id="biblio"> <?php echo $_GET["sitename"]; ?> <?php echo $_GET["websiteurl"]; ?> <?php echo $_GET["pubdate"]; ?> </div> </code></pre> Here are my gravity form settings <a href="http://www.greenermountain.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/grav-bib.gif" rel="nofollow">http://www.greenermountain.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/grav-bib.gif</a> I really appreciate this, I"m so close I can taste it. By the way, I'm using the url as a text string so I don't have to worry about the hyperlink getting copied as well. Kevin Flahaut on "Gravityfroms as a cutom bib maker?" https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/gravityfroms-as-a-cutom-bib-maker#post-998 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:13:53 +0000 Kevin Flahaut 998@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ You define the variable name when you're setting up the query string on the confirmation settings.. it can be pretty much whatever you would like, you just have to define it there, then call that name where you want it to appear in the page. example query string: <code>sitename={Site Name:1}&websiteurl={Website URL:3}&pubdate={Date:5}</code> you could call the site name variable "foo" if you wanted, as long as it's passing the value from the correct field. If you did, you'd simply get the value for "foo" from the querystring. <code><?php echo $_GET["foo"]; ?></code> Note: these variable names are reserved for WP functions and you can't use them. m, p, post_parent, subpost, subpost_id, attachment, attachment_id, name, hour, static, pagename, page_id, second, minute, hour, day, monthnum, year, w, category_name, tag, cat, tag_id, author, author_name, feed, tb, paged, comments_popup, meta_key, meta_value, preview As far as placing the content on the page, you will most likely want to <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Creating_Your_Own_Page_Templates">create a new page template</a> (actual php file) to place the form and the new content on. Unless you have a plugin like <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/exec-php/">PHP Exec</a> running, you can't normally execute php from within the content field. If you do create a new page template, remember to associate it with the page in the WP admin (on right sidebar). You can place your code snippet wherever you would like on the new page template. It's really up to you. In my quick test, I just put it below the "the_content" token. <pre><code><div class="post-content"> <?php the_content(); ?>  <div> <?php echo $_GET["sitename"]; ?> <?php echo $_GET["websiteurl"]; ?> <?php echo $_GET["pubdate"]; ?> </div>  </div></code></pre> Hope that helps. rusti on "Gravityfroms as a cutom bib maker?" https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/gravityfroms-as-a-cutom-bib-maker#post-995 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:54:50 +0000 rusti 995@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ You sir, are a gentleman and a scholar. I will give this a try and get back to you with a question or two I'm sure. Thanks for taking the time! Rusti How would I arrive at my variable name for the php snippet that you posted? Also, can I stick the php snippet where ever I like in the body or does it have to go in a specific spot? Kevin Flahaut on "Gravityfroms as a cutom bib maker?" https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/gravityfroms-as-a-cutom-bib-maker#post-989 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:51:47 +0000 Kevin Flahaut 989@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ You can do something like this easily enough. If you want it to appear in the form page, first, you'll need to add some php to the the page template to display the field values. Something like this <code><?php echo $_GET["variablename"]; ?></code> Then you'll create your form, and set the redirect/confirmation page to the same URL the form is on and then create the query string with the variable names sample settings screenshot: <a href="http://grab.by/aLB">http://grab.by/aLB</a> once you have everything in place, you should be able to post the form, and it will pass the variables back to the page and write out the values, formatted however you would like. posted form screenshot showing variables written to page: <a href="http://grab.by/aLy">http://grab.by/aLy</a>