https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/populate-data-before-submit Gravity Support Forums Topic: Populate data before submit en-US Mon, 20 Apr 2026 02:30:56 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/populate-data-before-submit#post-76173 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 20:34:12 +0000 Chris Hajer 76173@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Assuming the field has checked "Allow this field to be populated dynamically" and it uses the parameter name of "lidnummer" this should work. Have you done both those things?</p> <p>However, your original question was about the uniqueness of this value. I don't know of a better hook to populate the field with. But instead of generating a number like this, you might need to assign numbers from a list, so that each number is used only once. Or, you might be able to check that the number does not exist by using the gform_validation_hook. Since it's nothing the user did wrong, you probably don't want to show an error to them, but just assign the next number, and repeat the process.</p> <p>The most foolproof method would be to read the number from a list of numbers and assign it like that. When you generate a number like this there are bound to be situations where you run into this problem.</p> <p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_condition" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_condition</a> </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/populate-data-before-submit#post-75877 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:48:28 +0000 fitbrand 75877@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Do i need to use different filter? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/populate-data-before-submit#post-75720 Sun, 16 Sep 2012 18:22:30 +0000 fitbrand 75720@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hi Chris,</p> <p>Using the following line of code:</p> <p><code>add_filter(&quot;gform_field_value_lidnummer&quot;, &quot;populate_lidnummer&quot;);</code> </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/populate-data-before-submit#post-75692 Sun, 16 Sep 2012 15:26:41 +0000 Chris Hajer 75692@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Which hook or filter and using to call your function currently? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/populate-data-before-submit#post-75676 Sun, 16 Sep 2012 14:03:11 +0000 fitbrand 75676@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hi Guys,</p> <p>I'm trying to build a nice registration form where users receive a unique (autoincrement) username. Something like:</p> <p>t000001<br /> t000002<br /> etc..</p> <p>I use the pre-populate feature and have the following code in my functions.php</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php function populate_lidnummer($value){ global $wpdb; $usernames = $wpdb-&gt;get_results(&quot;SELECT ID, user_url FROM $wpdb-&gt;users ORDER BY ID DESC LIMIT 1&quot;); foreach ($usernames as $username) { $lastuser = $username-&gt;ID; $newuser_temp = $lastuser + 1; $num = strlen($newuser_temp); $max = 5; $zeros = $max - $num; return &#39;t&#39; . $newuser2 = str_repeat(&quot;0&quot;,$zeros).&quot;&quot;.$newuser_temp;; } }?&gt;</code></pre> <p>This is not ideal because when several people filling out the form there is a problem with the uniqueness of the username. </p> <p>Now i thought it might be easier to populate the field just before the users hitting the submit button on the registration page. So the most recent data is populated from the database. </p> <p>How can i do this? </p>