[Plugin: WordPress Form Manager] Posting Form Data to Another Form

Thank you! You could hook in to the onsubmit event of the initial form, use ajax to forward the zip to FM, and then load the ‘store locater’ page.

Thanks for the tip! I’m new to using ajax & I’ve looked at this a bit, but I’m still not seeing exactly what I need to do… Do you mind giving me a little more detail so that I can figure it out? Thanks again!

Okay I can see I left out some important details. To submit the form via AJAX you need to grab the nonce and the form ID along with any of the form items. Easier to give an example than to explain:

function custom_submit(){
	var result = <?php echo fm_form_submit_btn_script();?>;
	if(result == false) return false;
	var item = fm_get_form_item('the-item');
	var data = {
		fm_id: document.getElementById('<?php echo fm_form_ID();?>')['fm_id'].value,
		fm_nonce: document.getElementById('<?php echo fm_form_ID();?>')['fm_nonce'].value
	};
	data[item.id] = item.value;
	jQuery.post('<?php the_permalink(); ?>', data);
	// do whatever else
}

Thanks for the tip. Can you tell where the data should post to? I see the_permalink listed here, but is that what I should use? It looks like it just displays the page. Does that make sense?

When you submit a form it posts the data to the page with the form on it. The shortcode takes care of both showing the form and processing the post data. Basically the javascript simulates submitting the form without the browser having to reload the page.

Thanks! Yes, got it working about the time you sent this response. Will post final code after I clean it up a bit.

I noticed that on IE9 (have not checked other versions of IE) that the validation is not working. I enter a valid zip, but fm responds that a valid zip must be entered… Any suggestions? I haven’t started digging into this yet, just noticed it… Other browsers seem fine with the validation.

OK, here’s what I ended up with to pass a variable from FM to another plug-in. Thanks again for your guidance!

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hi ibc3, I can’t find the code you ended up with (moderator moved it?) I’m trying to send the zip code from my home page to the store-locator. I just need a form that will collect a zip code from the user and send it to the locator so that it loads closest locations to that zip automatically. I’m not using FM though, is the code you came up with able to do this? Thanks in advance ??

Hi, cdrady01! So sorry for the delay. We were out of town, and then I had to dig through this to find it – seems like an eternity ago.

I think this is the code that I had posted. Hope this helps if I’m not too late posting it.

https://pastebin.com/M9kUzGxB