Focing a value to be selected in the form

paulotebet,

There are a few ways to tackle this. The cleanest would be through your theme’s functions file. You can filter the output of the OSD MC Form. First I would uncheck the field that you want to not show to the user in the backend. Second manually add that field to the desired form with the value preset and type set to hidden. To do this you will need the TAG that represents the field from your mailchimp list (can be found on MC under the specific list > settings > list fields. You will also need the ID of the MC Form in WordPress. It is listed on the OSD MC forms settings page in the top bar of the particular form. The code in your functions file could look something like this:

function my_function($content, $fields, $message, $submit) {
    $fields .= "<input type='hidden' value='YOURVALUE' name='fields[YOURTAG]'>";
    return $fields;
}
add_filter('osd_mc_forms_1', 'my_function', 10, 4);

Another way would be to include the field in the backend, hide it with css, and then use javascript or jQuery to fill it out.

Your code to automatically select “Vou me Casar” would look like this:

function mc_add_preset_field($content, $fields, $message, $submit) {
    $fields .= "<input type='hidden' value='Vou me Casar' name='fields[SILO]'>";
    return $fields;
}
add_filter('osd_mc_forms_1', 'mc_add_preset_field', 10, 4);

Thanks a lot.

If we can get the Side Bar to show up the form properly then I get all my requirements for what I am looking for!

This is my requirement list that I have been researching the whole day, and so far I haven’t found a winner…

1.) Support for multiple forms
2.) Be able to interact with the “Areas of interest”
3.) Be able to use in Sidebar, Page, Post, Footer
4.) Be able to inherit my theme fonts and color
5.) Be able autoselect the Area of interest based on specific forms
6.) Free or reasonable priced
7.) Not conflict with “X Theme”
8.) Decent support

So far I haven’t found any that would fulfil all of this needs

I understand that your plugin is in early development stages, and because of that the UI are not so developed, but I would do whatever is necessary to have it work if you direct me how, like you did in this post.

One other option that I’ve seen in my tests was the ability to include an option on the comment area to Sign up with the email entered in the Comment form. Not sure if I will or not use this feature, but just so that you know for future development.

Regards,

Paulo Tebet

What is the 10, 4 used for in the code below?

add_filter(‘osd_mc_forms_1’, ‘mc_add_preset_field’, 10, 4);

Would that be the same for 4 different Forms? If now, How do I know what to use in this line for each of the Forms?

Thanks

Paulo Tebet

The first parameter is the form that you are filtering, the second is is the name of the function that you want to execute on that form, the third is the priority (the order that the function executes in respect to other functions), the fourth is the number of arguments (4 in our case with $content, $fields, $message, $submit)

I will post up a photo link to help you understand this line of code.

https://screencast.com/t/htnaMCVKHw

As I am thinking about it there is no need to pass in all 4 variables, just the 1 will do. and then change the arguments from 4 to 1

function mc_add_preset_field($fields) {
    $fields .= "<input type='hidden' value='Vou me Casar' name='fields[SILO]'>";
    return $fields;
}
add_filter('osd_mc_forms_1', 'mc_add_preset_field', 10, 1);

Great!

I will try to add all of this for my forms.

Thanks a lot for all the great support that you are providing.

Regards,

Paulo Tebet

I’ve tried the following code in my functions.php file, and after that my site didn’t load anymore…

I delete the code and the site loads fine again….

What have I done wrong?

Regards,

<?php

// =============================================================================
// FUNCTIONS.PHP
// —————————————————————————–
// Overwrite or add your own custom functions to X in this file.
// =============================================================================

function mc_add_preset_field($fields) {
$fields .= “<input type=’hidden’ value=’Vou Me Casar’ name=’fields[SILO]’>”;
return $fields;
}
add_filter(‘osd_mc_forms_1’, ‘mc_add_preset_field’, 10, 1);

function mc_add_preset_field($fields) {
$fields .= “<input type=’hidden’ value=’Vou Ser Mae’ name=’fields[SILO]’>”;
return $fields;
}
add_filter(‘osd_mc_forms_2’, ‘mc_add_preset_field’, 10, 1);

function mc_add_preset_field($fields) {
$fields .= “<input type=’hidden’ value=‘Retratos’ name=’fields[SILO]’>”;
return $fields;
}
add_filter(‘osd_mc_forms_3’, ‘mc_add_preset_field’, 10, 1);

function mc_add_preset_field($fields) {
$fields .= “<input type=’hidden’ value=‘Fotografia’ name=’fields[SILO]’>”;
return $fields;
}
add_filter(‘osd_mc_forms_4’, ‘mc_add_preset_field’, 10, 1);

is there any way for me to know which form register the user in MailChimp?

Only looking to user record in MailChimp, will that be any indication of What OSD form was used to register the user?

This could be another option instead of forcing a value to be selected, manualy changing this at Mailchimp side….

Or like I’ve said before, to use the mail sent by Mailchimp to instruct the user to edit their profile…

Regards,

Paulo

Not sure if this will be helpful for you for future development to include this feature in the UI.

I found this article:

https://blog.mailchimp.com/how-to-pre-fill-items-on-your-mailchimp-hosted-form/?_ga=1.161686332.1681855161.1396478003

Regards,

Paulo Tebet

To fix the code each function must have a different name and all of the single quotes need to be straight. Other than that, nice work!

Here is the corrected version:

function mc_add_preset_field_casar($fields) {
    $fields .= "<input type='hidden' value='Vou Me Casar' name='fields[SILO]'>";
    return $fields;
}
add_filter('osd_mc_forms_1', 'mc_add_preset_field_casar', 10, 1);

function mc_add_preset_field_mae($fields) {
    $fields .= "<input type='hidden' value='Vou Ser Mae' name='fields[SILO]'>";
    return $fields;
}
add_filter('osd_mc_forms_2', 'mc_add_preset_field_mae', 10, 1);

function mc_add_preset_field_retratos($fields) {
    $fields .= "<input type='hidden' value=‘Retratos’ name='fields[SILO]'>";
    return $fields;
}
add_filter('osd_mc_forms_3', 'mc_add_preset_field_retratos', 10, 1);

function mc_add_preset_field_fotografia($fields) {
    $fields .= "<input type='hidden' value=‘Fotografia’ name='fields[SILO]'>";
    return $fields;
}
add_filter('osd_mc_forms_4', 'mc_add_preset_field_fotografia', 10, 1);

Good find, however we do not use “hosted forms”. Meaning that the form is completely built by our plugin.

Thanks!

Thanks a lot.

Now the functions.php is not halting the site, but even though I can use the sign up forms they are not pre populating the “SILO” field….

Regards,

Paulo Tebet

Ah, I am still seeing some right and left single quotes in there around the values. clean up those and see if it works. IE value=‘Retratos’ should be value=’Retratos’

I copied and paste the values from this site. I’ve noticed that they were looking the same to me.

I am on a Mac, using Safari, not sure if this can cause some issues or not.

I will try to copy from Chrome or Firefox, or edit the document on another app to make sure the correct quotes are used.

I will find the Character finder to select the quotes, so just to be sure,

Thanks one more time.

Paulo Tebet

Ah if you are editing the files throught the WordPress interface it could have some funky copy / pasting results. Normally I FTP in to the host and edit the files with code editing software. Here is a copy will all quotes fixed –

function mc_add_preset_field_casar($fields) {
    $fields .= "<input type='hidden' value='Vou Me Casar' name='fields[SILO]'>";
    return $fields;
}
add_filter('osd_mc_forms_1', 'mc_add_preset_field_casar', 10, 1);

function mc_add_preset_field_mae($fields) {
    $fields .= "<input type='hidden' value='Vou Ser Mae' name='fields[SILO]'>";
    return $fields;
}
add_filter('osd_mc_forms_2', 'mc_add_preset_field_mae', 10, 1);

function mc_add_preset_field_retratos($fields) {
    $fields .= "<input type='hidden' value='Retratos' name='fields[SILO]'>";
    return $fields;
}
add_filter('osd_mc_forms_3', 'mc_add_preset_field_retratos', 10, 1);

function mc_add_preset_field_fotografia($fields) {
    $fields .= "<input type='hidden' value='Fotografia' name='fields[SILO]'>";
    return $fields;
}
add_filter('osd_mc_forms_4', 'mc_add_preset_field_fotografia', 10, 1);

function mc_change_submit_text($submit) {
    $submit = str_replace("Submit", "Inscrever-se", $submit);
    return $submit;
}
add_filter('osd_mc_forms_1', 'mc_change_submit_text', 10, 1);
add_filter('osd_mc_forms_2', 'mc_change_submit_text', 10, 1);
add_filter('osd_mc_forms_3', 'mc_change_submit_text', 10, 1);
add_filter('osd_mc_forms_4', 'mc_change_submit_text', 10, 1);