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Accessing form submission data in templates
If I set up a form using the Forms app, is there a way to access the submitted data in templates?
Specifically, is there a way to access the data the user just submitted? Will it still be there in POST data? (Obviously it will need to be validated/sanitised before being displayed/used)
(Would be useful to know if there's a way to access generic form submission data on the front end too). I guess you can just run a query, but I wondered if there's a function to do this, or an approved way?
That's not something the basic Forms app does, no. It's designed for simple form-to-email.
OK, thanks Drew.
If the user is logged in when he submits his form you could save his username in the form and then make a MySQL query to fetch all the submissions he made. Then pass that into the template as a variable.
I don't think it really makes sense to do that. At that point you might as well just build an app to do what you want - why hack around with an app that doesn't?