https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/how-to-get-entry-id-from-current-user-after-submitting-form Gravity Support Forums Topic: How to get entry ID from current user? en-US Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:20:29 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/how-to-get-entry-id-from-current-user-after-submitting-form#post-217183 Sat, 20 Apr 2013 14:07:11 +0000 Tobe 217183@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>This is what I got so far.</p> <p>Function to make form-ID=2 to create a page instead of post (thanks to Chris):</p> <pre><code>add_filter(&quot;gform_post_data&quot;, &quot;change_post_type&quot;, 10, 2); function change_post_type($post_data, $form){ //only change post type on form id 1 if($form[&quot;id&quot;] != 2) return $post_data; $post_data[&quot;post_type&quot;] = &quot;page&quot;; return $post_data; }</code></pre> <p>Code in my page.php to determine what to display depending if user is signed in (or not) and if user do have a page created or not:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php if ( is_user_logged_in() ) { ?&gt; &lt;?php global $wpdb; $user = wp_get_current_user(); $where = get_posts_by_author_sql( &#39;page&#39;, true, $user-&gt;ID ); $count = $wpdb-&gt;get_var( &quot;SELECT COUNT(*) FROM $wpdb-&gt;posts $where&quot; ); if ( $count &gt;= 1 ) { ?&gt; // This is what user see if form is submitted, where &#39;{entry-ID}&#39; should be replaced by the user&#39;s entry iD &lt;h2&gt;Hey &lt;?php echo $current_user-&gt;display_name ?&gt;, thank you for submitting the form. Visit your page here: <a href="http://www.example.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.example.com/</a>{entry-ID}&lt;/h2&gt; &lt;?php } else { ?&gt; // If user have not submitted a form, user is shown the info below with the form to submit &lt;h2&gt;Hey &lt;?php echo $current_user-&gt;display_name ?&gt;, Thank you for joining. To create a page please submit the form below:&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;?php echo do_shortcode(&#39;[gravityform id=&quot;2&quot; name=&quot;Join the movement of Gooders&quot; title=&quot;false&quot; description=&quot;false&quot;]&#39;); ?&gt; &lt;?php } } else { ?&gt; // if user is not logged in, user is urged to log in to submit form &lt;h2&gt;&lt;Please log in to create a page &lt;?php do_action( &#39;wordpress_social_login&#39; ); ?&gt;&lt;/h2&gt; &lt;?php } ?&gt;</code></pre> <p>Question that is left now:<br /> What code/function should I use to display the user's entry ID (on form 2) into the url on the second option like: <a href="http://www.example.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.example.com/</a>{entry-ID} ?? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/how-to-get-entry-id-from-current-user-after-submitting-form#post-214425 Thu, 18 Apr 2013 10:52:05 +0000 Tobe 214425@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I tried a lot using the is_user_logged_in function, but that only gives a blank screen.....(no error, no styling, just blank screen on all pages) But if I find a solution for that, how do I make my website check the e-mail address of that user and compare it with all the form entries to find a match, and then get the info from thet form entry to use in a text maybe using merge tags?</p> <p>Or is it impossible to display some of the user's entries of a form with some additional text instead of the form itself once the user have submitted the form?<br /> (Or maybe to create a shortcode for that?)</p> <p>Who is keen enough to find a solution?<br /> I would appreciate your input a lot ;-) </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/how-to-get-entry-id-from-current-user-after-submitting-form#post-212499 Wed, 17 Apr 2013 05:26:45 +0000 Tobe 212499@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I have a form for users only, and made sure users can only submit the form only once.<br /> Once the form is submitted, a page is created using the entry ID as part of the title and url.</p> <p>How can I :<br /> 1- Auto check if the user have already submitted the form, and if so;<br /> 2- Hide the form and instead get the user's entry ID and add that to a url ( example.com/number-{entry-id} ) or else;<br /> 3- Display the form.</p> <p>Thanks in advance! </p>