Select list of users

Hi @awol

I hope you’re well today!

I’ve tested the code and I can see what you mean. I can replicate the issue.

It’s quite likely that the code may need some update as it was created over 10 months ago and since then Forminator evolved a lot. Note please that this kind of custom code is not usually updated by us “automatically” but only upon requests/when issue is identified.

That being said, I have asked our developers to give it a look and see if we can provide update version of it.

I’d appreciate some patience but we (I or one of my colleagues) will update you here again once we got feedback on it from our developers.

Best regards,
Adam

Hi @awol

I hope you are doing well.

Can you please test the following code?

add_filter( 'forminator_cform_render_fields', function( $wrappers, $model_id ) {
    if ( $model_id != 2910 ) {
        return $wrappers;
    }

    $select_fields_data = array(
        'select-1' => 'users',
    );

    foreach ( $wrappers as $wrapper_key => $wrapper ) {
        if ( ! isset( $wrapper[ 'fields' ] ) ) {
            continue;
        }

        if ( isset( $select_fields_data[ $wrapper[ 'fields' ][ 0 ][ 'element_id' ] ] ) && ! empty( $select_fields_data[ $wrapper[ 'fields' ][ 0 ][ 'element_id' ] ] ) ) {
	    	$users = get_users();
            if ( ! empty( $users ) ) {
                $new_options = array();
	        	$user_names = array();
                foreach( $users as $u ) {
                    $new_options[] = array(
                        'label' => $u->user_login,
                        'value' => $u->user_login,
                        'limit' => '',
                        'key'   => forminator_unique_key(),
                    );
					$user_names['options'] = $new_options;
                }
				$select_field = Forminator_API::get_form_field( $model_id, $wrapper['fields'][0]['element_id'], true );
				if ( $select_field ) {
					Forminator_API::update_form_field( $model_id, $wrapper['fields'][0]['element_id'], $user_names );
					$wrappers[ $wrapper_key ][ 'fields' ][ 0 ][ 'options' ] = $new_options;
				}
            }
        }
    }

    return $wrappers;
    
},10,2);

Please, edit the 2910 line 3 to match your form ID and select-1 in case you use a different select.

Best Regards
Patrick Freitas

Hi Adam @wpmudev-support8 and Patrick @wpmudevsupport12,
Thank you both so much for such quick responses, and apologies for my relatively slow one. The new code supplied works, and for anyone else seeing this, it completely removes the need for the previous mu-plugin code – I have put it in my child theme functions file. The only issue I had was finding the right hook to access the data and run my own php function with it, but the one I eventually found that does was ‘forminator_form_submit_response’. I hesitate to criticise anything about such a great free form plugin, but the documentation for the available hooks/actions/filters is lacking and an improvement there would probably reduce the number of support questions. Thanks again for such superb support.

Hi @awol,

the documentation for the available hooks/actions/filters is lacking and an improvement there would probably reduce the number of support questions. Thanks again for such superb support.

I do understand you, at the moment I’m afraid we only have the following docs in terms of API:
https://wpmudev.com/docs/api-plugin-development/forminator-api-docs/

Our team is already working on improving the documentation and I’ll make sure to bring this ticket to our team’s attention so that they are aware of your feedback and check what further improvements that could be looked at in the roadmap.

Best Regards,

Nthin

Hi Nithin @wpmudevsupport11 and Patrick @wpmudevsupport12,

Thank you Nithin for passing my comments on. And for one/both of you, I have tried adapting the code for a list of custom posts by the current user rather than a list of users (on separate forms) but I can’t get it to work – the dropdown for posts appears but it doesn’t get populated (I have tried it with just a straight get_posts() as well) – it just displays ” No results found”; also if I wanted to make multiple selections it doesn’t work for either the user list or posts list. I know this is custom coding so I will understand if you are unable to assist, but if you could give a hint or a link to something that would help me I would be very grateful. Just for reference here is the code I have attempted (including the part that does work for users) – I don’t think I have made any typos;

//Forminator filter to make users dropdown on one form (142) which works and posts dropdown on another form (175) which doesn't
add_filter( 'forminator_cform_render_fields', function( $wrappers, $model_id ) {
    if (( $model_id != 142 ) || ( $model_id != 175 )){
        return $wrappers;
    }
    if ( $model_id == 142 ) {
    $select_fields_data = array(
        'select-1' => 'users',
    );

    foreach ( $wrappers as $wrapper_key => $wrapper ) {
        if ( ! isset( $wrapper[ 'fields' ] ) ) {
            continue;
        }

        if ( isset( $select_fields_data[ $wrapper[ 'fields' ][ 0 ][ 'element_id' ] ] ) && ! empty( $select_fields_data[ $wrapper[ 'fields' ][ 0 ][ 'element_id' ] ] ) ) {
	    	$users = get_users();
            if ( ! empty( $users ) ) {
                $new_options = array();
	        	$user_names = array();
                foreach( $users as $u ) {
                    $new_options[] = array(
                        'label' => $u->user_login,
                        'value' => $u->user_login,
                        'limit' => '',
                        'key'   => forminator_unique_key(),
                    );
					$user_names['options'] = $new_options;
                }
				$select_field = Forminator_API::get_form_field( $model_id, $wrapper['fields'][0]['element_id'], true );
				if ( $select_field ) {
					Forminator_API::update_form_field( $model_id, $wrapper['fields'][0]['element_id'], $user_names );
					$wrappers[ $wrapper_key ][ 'fields' ][ 0 ][ 'options' ] = $new_options;
			    	}
				}
            }
        }
    }
    elseif ( $model_id == 175 ) {
    $select_fields_data = array(
        'select-1' => 'listings',
    );

    foreach ( $wrappers as $wrapper_key => $wrapper ) {
        if ( ! isset( $wrapper[ 'fields' ] ) ) {
            continue;
        }

        if ( isset( $select_fields_data[ $wrapper[ 'fields' ][ 0 ][ 'element_id' ] ] ) && ! empty( $select_fields_data[ $wrapper[ 'fields' ][ 0 ][ 'element_id' ] ] ) ) {
            $user_id = get_current_user_id();
            $args = array(
	        'post_type'  => 'rtcl_listing',
	        'post_status'  => 'publish',
	        'numberposts' => -1,
	        'author' => $user_id,
	        'meta_query' => array(
		        array(
			        'key'   => 'ad_type',
			        'value' => 'market',
		        )
	        )
            );
	    	$listings = get_posts($args);
            if ( ! empty( $listings ) ) {
                $new_options = array();
	        	$listing_names = array();
                foreach( $listings as $l ) {
                    $new_options[] = array(
                        'label' => $l->post_title,
                        'value' => $l->post_title,
                        'limit' => '',
                        'key'   => forminator_unique_key(),
                    );
					$listing_names['options'] = $new_options;
                }
				$select_field = Forminator_API::get_form_field( $model_id, $wrapper['fields'][0]['element_id'], true );
				if ( $select_field ) {
					Forminator_API::update_form_field( $model_id, $wrapper['fields'][0]['element_id'], $listing_names );
					$wrappers[ $wrapper_key ][ 'fields' ][ 0 ][ 'options' ] = $new_options;
			    	}
				}
            }
        }
        
    }

    return $wrappers;
    
},10,2);

Hi @awol,

There are multiple if conditions which seem to be causing the issue. Since you are already adding a check using if else condition for multiple forms, you can remove this part of the code:

 if (( $model_id != 142 ) || ( $model_id != 175 )){
        return $wrappers;
    }

Could you please try in the following format instead:

add_filter( 'forminator_cform_render_fields', function( $wrappers, $model_id ) {

    if ( $model_id == 142 ) {
 	// code goes here
    }
    elseif ( $model_id == 175 ) {
	// code goes here
        
    }
    
    else {
    	return $wrappers;
    	}
    
},10,2);

I hope this helps in moving forward.

Kind Regards,

Nithin

Thank you, that has worked with regard to the posts list. I am a bit surprised as I didn’t think if conditionals could have that affect, so I have learnt something. I have also just tested the multiple select and the code change has fixed that as well, but it has also changed the select from a dropdown to a radio – is that expected behaviour? I am assuming so, and its not a problem, I was just curious.

Hi @awol

I hope you are doing well.

The code should only update the options not the field type, in case you need it as a dropdown please let us know and we can double check this for you.

Best Regards
Patrick Freitas