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Can I have one form serve as a post and have another form serve as comments?

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  1. peteranthony
    Member

    Hi
    I'm not technical and so love the ease of creating forms with GF.

    I'm trying to use gravity forms to create reviews for restaurants. For that I need a form for people to enter the restaurant and then another to fill in the review, but I need the review forms (there will be many) to be linked to the form that contains the restaurant.

    Users will submit restaurants in the first form (will be only one of a kind - like a regular post) and then other users will review (comment) on that restaurant.

    Has this been done before? Can it be done? Any examples out there? Thanks for your help.

    Posted 13 years ago on Monday June 7, 2010 | Permalink

  2. Carl Hancock
    Administrator

    I don't know of any examples. Comment creation isn't something Gravity Forms currently does. It's certainly possible using the API hooks, however it would be a very advanced customization and then it poses spam issues as it wouldn't support Akismet for spam.

    Posted 13 years ago on Tuesday June 8, 2010 | Permalink

  3. peteranthony
    Member

    Thanks.

    Posted 13 years ago on Tuesday June 8, 2010 | Permalink

  4. David Smith
    Member

    Hi Peter,

    I've actually just completed a similar customization for another Gravity Forms user recently. The details for creating such a system aren't terribly complex; however, as a non-technical user, it might be a difficult project to tackle right off the bat.

    The general concept is that the reviews (comments) are really just posts, which can be easily created in Gravity Forms. To tie these reviews to the restaurant they were submitted for, you just give them a custom meta key with the post id of the restaurant. Then you can query the database for a list of posts that have the restaurant meta key and the specific post id (restaurant id) you're looking for.

    If you're interested in talking about this in more detail you can reach me at david@ounceoftalent.com.

    Posted 13 years ago on Wednesday June 9, 2010 | Permalink

  5. openfire9
    Member

    Has anyone successfully implemented GF as a reviews interface? I would love to see any examples.

    Also, is there any progress on integrating GF forms into comments?

    Thanks

    Posted 13 years ago on Thursday February 3, 2011 | Permalink