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Creating a front end form for users to post event and set ticket price

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  1. NancyB
    Member

    Hello, I hope you can help me figure out if this is feasible.
    I am creating a member site where Members login and fill out forms to post events, news, profiles etc. The form submissions create posts. All that works fine.
    Now, I would like the member creating the event post to set a ticket price. When the viewer of the post sees the event, they enter how many tickets they want, see total, and go to Paypal to purchase. I see a number of plugins that do this kind of thing, but I love Gravity Forms and want to create my own solution.
    Thanks for any feedback! Nancy

    Posted 12 years ago on Wednesday October 24, 2012 | Permalink

  2. David Peralty

    So here's how I would do this. I would make sure that my form collecting data also included what they wanted the price to be. I would store this in a custom field. I would create a form that was just a simple product without a value. I would set it to be able to be dynamically populated. I would also add a total field and set-it up with Paypal.

    I would write PHP to grab the custom field value from the post and use a function to pre-populate the value of the product.
    gform_pre_render - http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Gform_pre_render

    Then if you add that form to part of your single.php or post-type.php template for displaying those events or whatnot, you should be able to have a single form in Gravity Forms collect payments for multiple events of different prices.

    Posted 12 years ago on Wednesday October 24, 2012 | Permalink

  3. NancyB
    Member

    David, You are amazing to get back to me so quickly! I really appreciate it. I will follow your directions and see if I can figure it out.

    Thanks so much!!!
    Nancy

    Posted 12 years ago on Wednesday October 24, 2012 | Permalink

  4. NancyB
    Member

    Hi David, I haven't been successful at writing the function. I know how to create the custom fields as you recommend, and otherwise set up the form. If you know of anyone who would do this for a fee, I'd be interested.
    Thank you!
    Nancy
    nancy@millbrookcreative.com

    Posted 12 years ago on Wednesday October 31, 2012 | Permalink

  5. Chris Hajer
    Key Master

    Nancy, you can post this as a job on our job board if you like. Just include all the information from your first request and your contact information from your last post.

    http://www.gravityhelp.com/forums/forum/job-board

    Include a reference to this topic if you like.

    Posted 12 years ago on Sunday November 4, 2012 | Permalink

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