Contact Form 7 Dynamic Text Extension wordpress plugin resources analysis
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| Name | Contact Form 7 Dynamic Text Extension |
| Version | 1.2 |
| Author | Chris Mavricos, SevenSpark |
| Rating | 94 |
| Last updated | 2014-08-04 12:23:00 |
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Great! Contact Form 7 Dynamic Text Extension plugin ads no tables to your Wordpress blog database.Contact Form 7 is an excellent WordPress plugin, and the CF7 DTX Plugin makes it even more awesome by adding dynamic content capabilities. While default values in Contact Form 7 are static. CF7 DTX lets you create pre-populated fields based on other values. Some examples might include:
- Auto-filling a URL
- Auto-filling a Post ID, title, or slug
- Pre-populating a Product Number
- Referencing other content on the site
- Populating with post info
- Populating with user info
- Populating with custom fields
- Any value you can write a shortcode for
There are many more case-specific examples. I searched for a solution, and there are some decent hacks out there. Many of them are explored in this forum topic: Contact Form 7 Input Fields Values as PHP Get-Viarables. However, they all involved hacking the current Contact Form 7 code, which means next time the plugin is updated their edits will be overwritten. That's bad.
This Dynamic Text Extension plugin provides a more elegant solution that leaves the Contact Form 7 Plugin intact.
WHAT DOES IT DO?
This plugin provides a new tag type for the Contact Form 7 Plugin. It allows the dynamic generation of content for a text input box via any shortcode. For example, it comes with several built-in shortcodes that will allow the Contact Form to be populated from any $_GET PHP variable or any info from the get_bloginfo() function, among others. See below for included shortcodes.
HOW TO USE IT
After installing and activating the plugin, the Contact Form 7 tag generator will have 2 new tag types: Dynamic Text Field and Dynamic Hidden Field. Most of the options will be familiar to Contact Form 7 users. There are two important fields:
Dynamic Value
This field takes a shortcode, with two important provisions:
- The shortcode should NOT include the normal square brackets ([ and ]). So, instead of [CF7_GET key='value'] you would use CF7_GET key='value' .
- Any parameters in the shortcode must use single quotes. That is: CF7_GET key='value' and not CF7_GET key="value"
Uneditable Option
As these types of fields should often remain uneditable by the user, there is a checkbox to turn this option on (Not applicable for hidden fields).
INCLUDED SHORTCODES
The plugin includes 2 basic shortcodes for use with the Dynamic Text extension. You can write your own as well - any shortcode will work
PHP GET Variables
Want to use a variable from the PHP GET array? Just use the CF7_GET shortcode. For example, if you want to get the foo parameter from the url http://mysite.com?foo=bar
Enter the following into the "Dynamic Value" input
CF7_GET key='foo'
Your Content Form 7 Tag will look something like this:
[dynamictext dynamicname "CF7_GET key='foo'"]
Your form's dynamicname text input will then be pre-populated with the value of foo, in this case, bar
PHP POST Variables
New in version 1.0.3!
Grab variables from the $_POST array. The shortcode is much like the GET shortcode:
CF7_POST key='foo'
Your Content Form 7 Tag will look something like this:
[dynamictext dynamicname "CF7_POST key='foo'"]
Blog Info
Want to grab some information from your blog like the URL or the sitename? Use the CF7_bloginfo shortcode. For example, to get the site's URL:
Enter the following into the "Dynamic Value" input
CF7_bloginfo show='url'
Your Content Form 7 Tag will look something like this:
[dynamictext dynamicname "CF7_bloginfo show='url'"]
Your form's dynamicname text input will then be pre-populated with your site's URL
Post Info
New in version 1.0.3!
Retrieve information about the current post/page (that the contact form is displayed on). The shortcode works as follows:
CF7_get_post_var key='title' <-- retrieves the Post's Title CF7_get_post_var key='slug' <-- retrieves the Post's Slug
You can also retrieve any parameter from the $post object. Just set that as the key value, for example 'post_date'
The Contact Form 7 Tag would look like:
[dynamictext dynamicname "CF7_get_post_var key='title'"]
Current URL
New in version 1.0.3!
Retrieve the current URL. The shortcode takes no parameters:
CF7_URL
So your Contact Form 7 Tag would look like:
[dynamictext dynamicname "CF7_URL"]
Custom Fields
New in version 1.0.4!
Retrieve custom fields from the current post/page. Just set the custom field as the key in the shortcode.
The dynamic value input becomes:
CF7_get_custom_field key='my_custom_field'
And the tag looks like this:
[dynamictext dynamicname "CF7_get_custom_field key='my_custom_field'"]
For the purposes of including an email address, you can obfuscate the custom field value by setting obfuscate='on' in the shortcode.
Current User Info
Get data about the current user - assuming they are logged in. Defaults to user name, but you can set the key to any valid value in http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_currentuserinfo
CF7_get_current_user
[dynamictext dynamicname "CF7_get_current_user"]
Referrer URL
Get the referral URL, if it exists. Note that this is not necessarily reliable as not all browsers send this data.
[dynamictext dynamicname "CF7_referrer"]
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