Dynamically populate "Job Title" box on new form

Hi guys,
I wanted to throw this out there for help as I've been trying hard without success to get this working.

I have a generic application form for a jobs sections that I have on my site. Users will click a link at the bottom of a job they are looking at and be redirect to the application form.

Is there a way to dynamically populate a text field on the application form with the post name (also the name of the job) that users will be coming through?

i'm not sure if this is a question about dynamic population or it can be done with the "merge tag" option but I would really excited to know if this is possible!

Hope to hear back

Rob

Hi Rob (nice name),
I looked through the dynamic population - thanks for confirming that its these I need.
I understand how to use them to popular the url or post the user is on at the time but is there a way to populate the field with the page name the user has come from?

I see what you mean Rob.

I guess its gonna be difficult to set this up. Reason- I don't specifically want to specify one page title rather I want to be able for the string to basically catch whatever page the user was on before coming to that page - Like a generic string.

Ok, Rob. I see what you are saying exactly however, it's a little beyond what I am capable of doing sadly.

You should be able to use something like this:

<a href="http://www.domain.com/?title=<?php echo get_the_title(); ?>">Form Link</a>

So "title" would be the paramater name you use on your form field and that PHP snippet will get the current title of the page.

Rob,

The dynamic population is working but instead of pulling the actual post title it populates the box with the actual php line <?php echo get_the_title(); ?>

Do I need something in my functions.php to make it all work?

Thanks for the quick response Rob.

I have put an example on this page. The "Click here" link take you to the applications form.

http://nagoya-info.com/jobs/market-researcher2813/

I feel a little stupid for doing that.
I don't have so much experience with making custom page templates as up until now I havent needed them so much. I have 5 custom post types all of which pull the standard archive and single page templates.
To answer your question, no I havent made a custom page template before - In this case, why is a custom template necessary Rob?

Gotcha. So a custom page template for the "Job applications" page is need right?

Will give it go Rob.
Thanks for your time!