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Setting options in a Perch Forms template
Is there any way of defining the options in perch:input select field from outside the form? Feeding in a list of items from a perch:content region.
I've had a play with dataselect and variables but seems no dice.
Yes, the
<perch:content />tags get parsed before the<perch:input />tags, so you can do something likeOkay, thank you. That doesn't seem to work. If you use that it doesn't output anything.
However, if I change perch:content to perch:input it outputs a field with the variable content in it.
How are you displaying the region? With
perch_content_custom()?Curses! Thank you for that prompt. Yes, variables passed into a template only work only work for templates which are parsed at runtime. So perch_content_custom not perch_content.
I also tried to use the variable to set the name of the form so that I could set up a dynamic form that responded to different user options so that I would then direct submissions to different email addresses in admin. However, I get an error about calling a function on a non-object. Does the form submission check in with the original form and therefore doesn't like the renaming?
You cannot mess with the form ID. That must be a literal string.
Thank you for that clarification.