Post Data in a Checkbox/Dropdown List

Hi @fitmasu

I hope you are doing well

You can give this a try in this code: https://gist.github.com/patrickfreitasdev/d7ad926561db4b598baeaf66478d790b

I tested it and still working well in the latest version of Forminator, you just need to replace your form ID, select ID and Post type

Add it as a mu-plugin https://wpmudev.com/docs/using-wordpress/installing-wordpress-plugins/#installing-mu-plugins

Best Regards
Patrick Freitas

Hello @fitmasu,

Please refer to line 11:
'select-3' => 'post',

In this example, “select-3” is the name of your Select field, which you’d like to be populated with your data.

“post” here refers to the regular posts. In order to populate the field with different post types, you’ll need to replace “post” with the custom post type slug. Usually you can find it in the address bar after “post_type=” when viewing the list of the custom posts (such as pages, articles, etc.) in the backend:

https://prnt.sc/BdXg83jVhJAM

The must use plugin run and automatically trigger the function, once “forminator_cform_render_fields” filter hook is triggered, which happens when the form fields are being rendered.

Hope this helps. Let us know if you have any further questions!

Best Regards,
Dmytro

Hi @fitmasu

For this code to work you do not need to put anything in that setting.

The “Query parameter” in “Pre-populate” setting is for a different use: when you want to fill-in the field (or select option in case of “select” or “radio” buttons) based on the URL.

It’s in no relation to this case and shared code and you just leave it empty as is.

Best regards,
Adam

Hi @fitmasu

I’m glad it works!

If I want another form to do a similar thing on the same website, do I duplicate the file/duplicate the code in the same file and it will work?

You shouldn’t duplicate the code as it would cause fatal errors due code conflict. The code should (and can) be modified a bit to support multiple forms. If you ever need help with this, let us know and we’ll try to assist with that.

Currently, it only fetches the recent 5 posts, is it possible to extend the list? Couldn’t seem to be able to find that in the code.

Code would fetch the “default” number of posts (which is 5 for “get_posts()” function) but you can change it in this line:

$posts = get_posts( array( 'post_type' => $select_fields_data[ $wrapper[ 'fields' ][ 0 ][ 'element_id' ] ] ) );

Example modifications:

a) to fetch 10 posts use this instead

$posts = get_posts( array('post_type' => $select_fields_data[ $wrapper[ 'fields' ][ 0 ][ 'element_id' ] ],'numberposts' => 10 ) );

b) to fetch all posts use this instead

$posts = get_posts( array('post_type' => $select_fields_data[ $wrapper[ 'fields' ][ 0 ][ 'element_id' ] ],'numberposts' => -1 ) );

Best regards,
Adam

Hi @fitmasu,

Hope this message finds you well.

I tested the code and I was able to get all the posts without any coding.

Still, the ‘numberposts’ => 5, didn’t work since I tried to set it to the lowest value.

But this is not related to Forminator, since the code is using the get_posts() function, which is a WordPress core function, you can find more information about this here:

https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_posts/

Best regards,
Laura