Products and forms - Post ID 129269

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292 posts

Hi
Just one idea. In my product detail page I have a button to call a pop-up window with a form to make an order or reserve. I would like to pass data from this product to the form, (reference and name).
How to do this? I'm gone study and dig this but any help will be wonderful.
Regards
Jimmy
Jimmy The Sailor
http://www.jimmythesailor.net (trying to show my photos)
http://www.art-i-batik.com (my wife's gallery)
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Hiya Jimmy,

If I'm understanding you correctly you want to be able to have specific item id, name, etc. type information already default added into a form for your products? This is doable, but it will be a whole lot of work. The only way to do something like this would be using either some good php scripts for forms, or if you're using the Form Builder by CC then you'd have to create a separate form for each of your products. If you only have a handful of products that would be very easy as all you'd have to do is copy the form file and rename it then open it and enter the info for the next product and save it.

If you have a whole lot of products then this could get pretty tedious not to mention having a billion form files on your server to handle all the products. What I did was created a form on my page that has blanks with the names of the fields that the customer would know to enter the Item ID number and their email address if they want to get restock info on something that is out of stock. This gives you 1 form to use for all of your products and it's pretty simple for the customer to enter the product info in.

Just a thought, but it will work to do what you want if you have the time, energy and patience to create a separate form for each of your products.
User 427108 Photo


Registered User
292 posts

Hi Jo Ann
I have already a solution as yours and only wanted to improve.
One form for each product it is not feasible, as you say, too much files to handle and to tedious.
I open the files to see what i could tweak and give up. I can read a PHP program to understand what it does and do some very small changes but I don't know how to program.
It was just one idea :)
Have a nice weekend

PS. one form each product, just do a template and save as product_id name and then just insert the name and reference inside each form and, can not forget, the adapted link into each product detail :D
Jimmy The Sailor
http://www.jimmythesailor.net (trying to show my photos)
http://www.art-i-batik.com (my wife's gallery)

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