[waubain]

I got this to work to my satisfaction. Thank you.

I will also look at the example code you provided, as a possible alternative.

[waubain]

I figured out a solution. I built a plain select input in the php file which was then returned to the QuForm element.
Since I am a beginner, improvements are welcome.
Thanks.

php file

//array not shown
         if ( isset( $_GET['id'] ) && !empty( $_GET['id'] )){ 
         $mdate = $_GET['id']; 
        }         
    
    echo '<select>';
    echo '<option value="">Choose a speaker</option>';                         
        $speakers = array();
        foreach($info_decoded as $row) {
         if (($row['meetdate']) == $mdate) {
         $speakers[] = $row['speaker'];
         }
        }
        foreach($speakers as $item){                                                       
        echo '<option value="' . $item . '">' . $item . '</option>';
        };
      echo '</select>';

form php

<!-- Begin Speaker Select element -->
                                    <div class="quform-element quform-element-select quform-huge">
                                        <div class="quform-spacer">
                                            <label for="speaker">Speaker<span class="quform-required">*</span></label>
                                            <div class="quform-input">
                                                <select class="quform-tooltip" id="speaker" name="speaker" title="Speaker">
                                                    <option value="">Choose meeting date first!</option>
                                                </select>
                                            </div>
                                        </div>
                                     </div>
                        <!-- End Speaker Select element -->

[waubain]

Works perfectly. Thank you for the code and a great product.

[waubain]

The below piece of code works in a test page, but I don’t know where I can place it to make it work properly within your code, if at all.

The form is being used to upload a file to a directory and not to send an email or to a database.

            /** Create an array of file names in handout directory to check if file already exists **/
                $dir = '../../handouts';
                // get directory files
                $dirfilenames = scandir($dir);
                //get name of file to be uploaded
                $files = $form->getValue('upload');
                $filename = $files[0]['filename'];
                //check if file exists
                foreach( $dirfilenames as $value ){
                  if( $value == $filename ){
                        //terminating script with a message using exit() 
                        exit('File already exists!'); 
                    }
                }
                /** End of file exists check **/
                
            // Save to a MySQL database

[waubain]

I realized that ‘inArray’ will not work at this point since the ‘filename’ does not yet exist until farther in the code.

[waubain]

This may or may not apply to your situation. I also was getting a lot of spam. One common denominator of all the spam that I received is that it contained a URL link. Since my users would have no reason so submit a URL, I created a Validator that check the textarea for a URL and prevented the form from being submitted, and alerted the users of no URLs.

Since doing this, I have not gotten any spam submitted. I am not a programmer, but this code worked for me.

/**
 * Quform_Validator_URL
 *
 * Checks that the text block does not have a embedded URL
 *
 * @package Quform
 * @subpackage Validator
 * @copyright Copyright (c) 2009-2015 ThemeCatcher (http://www.themecatcher.net)
 */
class Quform_Validator_Url extends Quform_Validator_Abstract
{
    /**
     * Error message templates
     * @var array
     */
    protected $_messageTemplates = array(
        'empty' => 'URLs not allowed'
    );

    /**
     * Checks whether the given value is empty.
     *
     * @param $value The value to check
     * @return boolean True if valid false otherwise
     */
    public function isValid($value)
    {
        $valid = true;

          if (stristr($value, 'http')||stristr($value, 'www.') !== false) { 
            
            $this->addMessage($this->_messageTemplates['empty']);
            $valid = false;
        }
        return $valid;
    }
}

[waubain]

That worked thank you.

[waubain]

I am still having a problem. The filename value in the new array of form inputs are showing a NULL for the filename. I am using the single file upload.

“filename”:null

All of the other form elements are populating the new array as expected. Does the array need to be decoded or parsed?

this is my code

        /** Custom code section #1 - see documentation for examples **/
        
            //Capture form input values
            $ho_meetdate = $form->getValue('meetingdate');
            $ho_acronym = $form->getValue('ho_acronym');
            $ho_type = $form->getValue('ho_type');
            //get uploaded file name  
            $files = $form->getValue('upload');
            $ofilename = ($files[0]['filename']);
                   
            //Rename uploaded file
            $newfilename = $ho_acronym . $ho_type; 
            //Create new array if does not exist or append if exists
            
            $arr_file = array();
                $arr_file['meetdate'] = $ho_meetdate;
                $arr_file['acronym']  = $ho_acronym;
                $arr_file['type']     = $ho_type;  
                $arr_file['ofilename']= $ofilename; 
                $arr_file['nfilename']= $newfilename;  
            //Save the JSON string to a text file.
            $ho_encoded = json_encode($arr_file);
                file_put_contents("../../editor/handout_arrayTest.txt", $ho_encoded); 
        
        /** End custom code section #1 **/

Array contents = {“meetdate”:”2019-05-02″,”acronym”:”aa”,”type”:”_ho_1c.pdf”,”ofilename”:null,”nfilename”:”aa_ho_1c.pdf”}

Thank you for your help

[waubain]

I got this working. The file name retained the .pdf without adding it back, so I was getting an additional period at the end.

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