https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/how-to-populate-a-form-dynamically Gravity Support Forums Topic: How to populate a form dynamically en-US Mon, 20 Apr 2026 04:52:36 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/how-to-populate-a-form-dynamically#post-78549 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 17:19:51 +0000 David Peralty 78549@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>The dynamic population would only work with a get variable. So if you were sending the value in a string in the URL like:</p> <p>http:site.com/form/?state=Oregon </p> <p>Then in the Parameter for the field you want the state to appear in would be state. To do it with POST variables, you would need to know PHP well enough to figure out how to use our hooks system, specifically:</p> <p><a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Gform_field_value_$parameter_name" rel="nofollow">http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Gform_field_value_$parameter_name</a></p> <p>All my best! </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/how-to-populate-a-form-dynamically#post-78546 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 17:14:47 +0000 davidcross 78546@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>I've referred to <a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Using_Dynamic_Population" rel="nofollow">http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Using_Dynamic_Population</a></p> <p>I've a form on a page to which variables are being submitted</p> <p>If I use phpinfo I see a PHP POST variable of:</p> <p>_POST["state"] Oregon</p> <p>Exactly what would I put in the field after checking "Allow field to be populated dynamically" please?</p> <p>I'm not a programmer just trying to hack a form together here and need additional help/example</p> <p>Thank you </p>