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Started 2 months ago by achillesp
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achillesp
Member

Hi,

I'm using the Flashlight theme - great theme by the way :-)
I'd like to add a select drop down or some options through radio buttons to the contact form.

I've found the files responsible (contact-form.php and class-form-generator.php).
I see you have support for select inputs. Could you help me out on what syntax to use in the contact-form.php to add a select?
Let's say I wanted to add a select with some default option selected and 2 more options available.

If I wanted to also add some options with radio buttons, is there some easy way to do this too?

Thanks,
Achilles

Posted 2 months ago #
Devin
Moderator

Hi Achilles,

A much easier way to do it would be to use a plugin like Contact Form 7 and then not use the built in contact form. That way you get a much easier interface for customizing the form(s) you need.

Regards,

Devin

Posted 2 months ago #
achillesp
Member

Hi,

I've used this plugin before. I 'd just prefer to avoid adding a plugin just for a contact form if I can do it through the theme.

Regards,
Achilles

Posted 2 months ago #

Dude
Dude

You can add your custom contact form fields to wp-content\themes\flashlight\includes\contact-form.php

If you want to add a select field after the existing/standard fields replace following code in contact-form.php

'username'	=> 	array('type'=>'decoy',	'label'=>'', 'check'=>'must_empty'),										//decoy input field for bots, input field gets hidden, if bot enters value form wont be submitted

with:

'username'	=> 	array('type'=>'decoy',	'label'=>'', 'check'=>'must_empty'),										//decoy input field for bots, input field gets hidden, if bot enters value form wont be submitted
        'mycustomselect'	=> 	array(
                                'type'=>'select',
                                'label'=>'Are you hungry?',
                                'options'=> 'Yes,No,Maybe,I am Vegetarian',
                                'check'=>''
        )

You can change:

1) The field name - it's "mycustomselect" in the example code above,
2) The caption/label - it's "Are you hungry?" in the example code and
3) the options. Separate the options with a comma (,). I used: "Yes,No,Maybe,I am Vegetarian" in the sample code above.

Posted 2 months ago #

achillesp
Member

Thanks, that's what I was looking for.

Posted 2 months ago #
Dude
Dude

Hi!

Glad that I could help you :)

Regards,
Peter

Posted 2 months ago #