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Using cformsII as a Guestbook
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Bettina

6:47 am September 12, 2008
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Please replace the ??? with your data!

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As your plugin is very customizable, I want to use it as a Guestbook – because I wanted more than only a "comment" question . The form works perfect (I get the records via email and also at the wordpress console). 

Question: How can I show these records as a list? (just like other guestbooks do). I´ve created an extrapage to show them, and typed the URL at the cformsII / form settings / Core form admin / send form data to an alternative page

I guess it has something to do with the my-functions.php… but I´m really new Embarassedwith this stuff, so I don´t know what to do!!! Maybe I have to change some text there, and then what?

Thanks a lot!Smile
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Oliver

Munich, Germany

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7:35 am September 12, 2008
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my-functions.php is only useful for actions happening during form submission.

What you need to do is to look at the how cforms reads the data from its tables (see js/include/*.php) and mimic this to suit your own needs. That is, you need the SQL to read all the data sets and you need some PHP/HTML to render the entries online.

with cforms v9 I'm thinking of providing an "API" so users don't have to programming this themselves and it should make data retrieval much easier.

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sofea

8:38 am January 25, 2009
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Hi Oliver, now that I am using CFORMSII, version 10, how do I send viewer's input & photos into inidvidual posts (tabular form is fine)?  Thanks so much for helping! 
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Oliver

Munich, Germany

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11:33 am February 15, 2009
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cforms doesn't support that

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Jim

5:03 pm February 15, 2009
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Hi Oliver

This is a wonderful plugin. My question is along the lines of the other 2 posts. I assume cforms does not provide a way to display inputed data into a post. API or otherwise. Thanks again.

Jim
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Oliver

Munich, Germany

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6:13 pm February 15, 2009
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It does allow to post all or partial user submitted data (in any form you determine) in a post / page, but it does not allow to create posts/pages from user submissions.

Perhaps I misinterpreted sofea question, usually users want to use cforms as an 'external post creation' tool.

If it's only about displaying user data, you can do it via cforms API call to retrieve all (or partial data) and then run a PHP LOOP to display it.

There are examples on the Help! page and in this forum.

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Petervs

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5:24 pm February 24, 2009
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the cforms API call to retrieve all (or partial data) and then run a PHP LOOP to display it.

is exactly what i am looking for

excuse me for being blind, but where is your help page ? is it troubleshooting section ?

thanks

Peter
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Oliver

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7:13 am February 25, 2009
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