Alter Contact Form through Perch Admin

Thanks for replying Rachel -

<perch:form id="contact" method="post" app="perch_forms">

    <perch:content id="intro" type="textarea" label="Intro" textile="true" editor="markitup" size="m" />

    <div>
        <perch:label for="name">Name</perch:label>
        <perch:input type="text" id="name" required="true" label="Name" />
        <perch:error for="name" type="required">Please add your name</perch:error>
    </div>

    <div>
        <perch:label for="email">Email</perch:label>
        <perch:input type="email" id="email" required="true" label="Email" placeholder="admin@widescope.net" />
        <perch:error for="email" type="required">Please add your email address</perch:error>
        <perch:error for="email" type="format">Please check your email address</perch:error>
    </div>

    <div>
        <perch:label for="message">Message</perch:label>
        <perch:input type="textarea" id="message" required="true" label="Message" />
        <perch:error for="message" type="required">Please add a message</perch:error>
    </div>

    <div>
        <perch:input type="hidden" id="active" value="0" label="Live" />
    </div>

    <div>
        <perch:input type="submit" id="submit" value="Send" />
    </div>

    <perch:success>
        <perch:content id="success" type="textarea" label="Thank you message" textile="true" editor="markitup" />
    </perch:success>
</perch:form>

What I want to do is take that hidden variable - active and allow the person in perch admin to change it to 1 (probably a dropdown) to signify that it is live. The intention is then to display all submissions on site if active=1.

But I don't know where to add it to the template or another one so that the option to change is only shown in perch admin.

I've tried that but the "Viewing a Response" page in the perch admin lists the following;

Response
Received    30 Jun 2015 16:36
Name    Steve 
Email   test@test.com 
Message test 
Live    

Basically it just leaves the Live bit blank. I have the template in the templates/content folder. Is that correct?

Plus none of it is editable. How do I let the Admin user edit a form response without it appearing on the form? Or am I barking up the wrong tree here completely?

Ah I've just realised it's added the option box to the region for the template under Pages. I understand why it's done that but it's actually the response form I'm trying to allow the Administrator to alter - ie view each response and change live to yes so that I can display it on another page. Is that possible?

I know this would be easier using comments App but I've already used the comments App for something else so I need a work around using a form.

Hi.

Ok I'm trying to go down this route but I'm really stuck now (IE using the comments app with a different form), and I can't work out why.

sell-your-horse.php page - code is essentially;

<?php perch_comments_form('sellyourhorse', 'Sell Your Horse', array('template'=>'sellyourhorse_form.html')); ?>

<?php PerchUtil::output_debug(); 

sellyourhorse_form.html is;

<perch:form id="sellyourhorse" method="post" app="perch_comments">
    <fieldset>
       <legend>Leave a comment</legend>
        <div>
            <perch:label for="sellyourhorseName">Name</perch:label>
            <perch:input type="text" id="sellyourhorseName" required="true" label="Name" antispam="name" />
            <perch:error for="sellyourhorseName" type="required">Required</perch:error>
        </div>
        <div>
            <perch:label for="sellyourhorseEmail">Email</perch:label>
            <perch:input type="email" id="sellyourhorseEmail" required="true" label="Email" antispam="email" />
            <perch:error for="sellyourhorseEmail" type="required">Required</perch:error>
            <perch:error for="sellyourhorseEmail" type="format">Check format of address</perch:error>
        </div>
        <div>
            <perch:label for="sellyourhorseURL">Website</perch:label>
            <perch:input type="url" id="sellyourhorseURL" placeholder="https://" label="URL" antispam="url" />
        </div>
        <div>
            <perch:label for="sellyourhorseHTML">Comment</perch:label>
            <perch:input type="textarea" id="sellyourhorseHTML" required="true" label="Message" antispam="body" />
            <perch:error for="sellyourhorseHTML" type="required">Required</perch:error>
        </div>
        <div>
            <perch:input type="hidden" id="parentID" value="<perch:comments id="parentID" />" />
            <perch:input type="hidden" id="parentTitle" value="<perch:comments id="parentTitle" />" />
            <perch:input type="submit" id="submitComment" value="Submit" />
        </div>

    </fieldset>
    <perch:success>
        <p>Thank you. Your comment has been submitted and will appear on the site once approved.</p>
    </perch:success>

</perch:form>

sellyourhorse.html;

<perch:before>

    <ul class="comments listing">
</perch:before>
        <li id="comment<perch:comments id="commentID" type="hidden" />">
            <img src="//www.gravatar.com/avatar/<perch:comments id="sellyourhorseEmail" type="email" label="Email" order="2" hash="md5" required="true" />?s=120&d=mm" width="60" height="60" />

            <div class="comment">
                <div class="commenter">
                    <perch:if exists="sellyourhorseURL"><a href="<perch:comments id="sellyourhorseURL" type="url" label="URL" order="3" />"></perch:if>
                        <strong><perch:comments id="sellyourhorseName" type="text" label="Name" order="1" required="true" />:</strong>
                    <perch:if exists="sellyourhorseURL"></a></perch:if>
                </div>
                <p rel="bookmark" class="date"><perch:comments id="sellyourhorseDateTime" format="%d %b %Y %X" type="date" time="true" label="Date" /></p>
                <perch:comments id="sellyourhorseHTML" encode="false" html="true" type="textarea" label="Message (HTML)" order="4" required="true" />
            </div>
        </li>
<perch:after>
    </ul>
</perch:after>

It's esentially the comment.html and comment_form.html pages with changes to the ID.

However it doesn't post.

The debug for the form - sellyourhorse_form.html shows;

Debug Message
SELECT DISTINCT settingID, settingValue FROM perch2_settings WHERE userID=0
Using template: /templates/comments/sellyourhorse_form.html

But comparing it to a comment form that works - there appears to be an insert missing.

Can anyone help tell me where I'm going wrong?

Again, thank you. Sorted, I understand now.

Actually Drew, I do need to collect different fields;

How do I get the comments form (that can be edited by admin) in Perch admin to display a different template for this specific input?

Is it just a case of adding some kind of IF:ELSE routine in the comment.html template based on the comment parent id?

I have a customised comments form and comment.html template - comment_form.html that obviously uses comment.html in the perch admin. I have created another form sellyourhorse_form.html that has different fields that now posts these.

When I now go to comments and view the comment posted via the sellyourhorse_form in the perch admin, the template it is using to display the info is the comment.html and not sellyourhorse.html as displayed in the code above.

I therefore assume all of the comments (irrelevant of parentID) use the same comment.html template for Perch Admin. How do I customise that template so that it accomodates the different fields from the two different forms?

Does that make sense?

Thanks, that's what I ended up doing, bit clunky but I think it's because I'm trying to put round pegs in square holes but had to find a solution with it being time critical. I'm going to go back and rework through it all using forms instead when time permits.

Cheers Steve