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Dynamically Populate a Gravity Forms Field from a Pods Related Field

Dynamically populating a Gravity Form field without creating a Pods Feed for the form.

Add Fields to Pulldown Lists in Gravity Form Dynamic Population from Pods Feed

Modify what is displayed in the pulldown lists for the dynamic lists using the Pods Gravity Forms Add-on

Pods Gravity Forms Add-on

Integrate with Gravity Forms to create a Pod item from a form submission.

Creating a Shortcode for a Pods Form

Used to create a shortcode for a form with a more descriptive post title

Gravity Forms

Covers interactions with Gravity Forms and our Pods Add-on for Gravity Forms which allows you to map your Forms to Pods Directly.

Form Shortcode

Used to put our Back-End Admin on the Front-end using the Pods Shortcode

Create New Record from Form Submission using Add

Real life example of a function to create a Pods record from fields submitted on a form.

<?php 
function add_new_applicant () { 

    // Get field values from form submission 
    $first_name = $_POST['first_name']; 
    $last_name = $_POST['last_name']; 
    $telephone = $_POST['telephone']; 
    $email = $_POST['email']; 
     
    $fields = array( 
        'first_name'    => $first_name, 
        'last_name'        => $last_name, 
        'telephone'        => $telephone, 
        'email'            => $email 
    ); 
                     
    $new_id = pods( 'applicant' )->add( $fields ); 
     
    return $new_id; 
}

<?php

function add_new_applicant () {

// Get field values from form submission

$first_name = $_POST['first_name'];

$last_name = $_POST['last_name'];

$telephone = $_POST['telephone'];

$email = $_POST['email'];

$fields = array(

'first_name' => $first_name,

'last_name' => $last_name,

'telephone' => $telephone,

'email' => $email

);

$new_id = pods( 'applicant' )->add( $fields );

return $new_id;

}

Could also have a run through pods_sanitize to make sure the data is safe to be added.

pods('applicant')->add ( pods_sanitize ( $fields ) );

1	pods('applicant')->add ( pods_sanitize ( $fields ) );

Multiple Fields in a Drop Down Relationship Pick List Using a Filter

When you need to change what is shown in the drop-down Select Field in a Relationship, you can use this method to base the value on other values in Post Type.

Override Field Description with pods_form_ui_comment_text Filter

add_filter( 'pods_form_ui_comment_text', 'gnt_pod_field_comment', 10, 3);
function gnt_pod_field_comment($message, $name, $options) {
	
		$key = $options['pod'] .'.'. $options['name']  .'.description';
		
		//TODO: lookup in file or db or stg
		
		if ('accel_feedback.aggregate_wellbeing.description' == $key) {
			$message = 
				"<b>Normal = 0.00</b>. A zero value indicates that the student is generally positive<br/>".
				"<b><font color='red'>Distress = -2.00</font></b>. Negative values indicate that the student is in distress<br/>".
				"<b><font color='green'>Excess = +2.00</font></b>. Positive values indicate high wellbeing or excessive ease.<br/>";
		}
		
		return $message;
}