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capzman

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5:28 am February 17, 2009

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Hi guys,

I'm currently using cforms as my comment form. but i wondering where are the city field is saved in the database. and how can i display it in my comments.php. i would like to display it in my comments like this format: Name (of coment author) from city. but i don't know how to get it, since basic comment doesn't have city field in it. thanks in advance. Cheers

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Paul

Amsterdam, NL

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5:02 pm February 17, 2009

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Hi!

You may want to try the forum search as this has come up quite often
already.

From what I learned myself, cforms can't force WP to accept more input fields than it supports (author, email, url, comment).

However, I'm sure you can add you own PHP code (my-functions.php) to feed an extra table with the additional data. The sole problem I see is correlating that extra data with the actual comment store in the WP table).

Perhaps Oliver can comment on that….?

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Oliver

Munich, Germany

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9:44 pm February 17, 2009

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Yes and no.

Yes, you can track additional fields in your own table(s), but there is currently no way to connect that data back to a particular comment (commentID would be the shared unique ID).

However, with version 10.3 cforms will track any additional comment form fields with an ID/Name of customX, e.g. My Custom Field 1[id:custom1] in the cforms table, together with the comment ID.

There will be a new API call, e.g. cf_extra_comment_data(id)which will return [in an array] all extra fields per provided ID (which you have access to inside the comment LOOP).

This will make it extremely easy to add any number of new comment form fields and reference them later on.

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