User name in form

Hi Webdiak,

You can use the template tag {{user.user_login}} to show the username in your forms. This template tag can also be used inside the value="" attribute of your input fields.

https://kb.htmlforms.io/template-variables/

Hope that helps!

Thank you, that works perfectly!

Also I could use the html hidden attribute so the field registers user name not even being visible for users.

Hello…I think HTML Forms is a very promising plugin (I searched several and found them too complex for non-developers).

I am using Divi theme and use wpdatatables. I need to create a table using shortcode where some of the shortcode parameters are taken from user input (HTML Forms).

The final step to produce a wpdatatables will be with this shortcode on the page that produces table with id=1 and take a parameter var1 set in the form completion process:

echo do_shortcode(“[wpdatatable id=1 var1=$Name]”);

I need to determine how var1 is set to a field capture from the form, say first-name.

Any guidance on how to set this up would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks

Thank you @dvankooten

Variables can be such a big help to make forms more dynamic.

Is it possible to add these variables to the content body of the email sent?

Hello All;

I have this same need – I read this thread and the replies – but I must be having a ‘brain blackout’ – granted, I am an experienced programmer but not in the WordPress/Plug-In circles…

In some way, shape or form I simply need to put the logged in user (ID, Firstname, Lastname, email – any – just one of them) into the results array.

I read here about the {{user.user_login}} approach but I cannot make it happen. It says it can included in the ‘value=’ clause(s) but that doesn’t work…

I have tried it with things like … value= … with ”, “”, [], and other …

I have tried the same using it within TEXT, CHECKBOX, RADIO and beyond – but still no success…

I have tried different clean browsers, creating different simple users in WordPress and more …no success…

The site is all new – reputable web-host, self-installed WordPress, very simple ‘whole page’ template, not plug-in mess or clutter.

Every other thing works as I would expect – I already have ‘step-based’ form, clean answers going out to the results array and can handle them.

I’d have no problem paying for the upgrade or support if I knew this could be handled – the project is for an old and established non-profit organization but they have no technical volunteers – so I am it at the moment.

I’d appreciate any suggestions that you folks have…

Regards,
BOB