Show unique ID to the user who just submitted the form

[sumanguj]

i'm creating a contact form and is it possible to create a unique ID (say 123ABC) for every form submitted?

this unique ID (say 123ABC) should be shown or emailed to the user who has submitted the form and be visible in my admin page too.

could anyone kind enough help me with this? thank you.

[sumanguj]

nobody?

[Ben]

Hi Sumanguj,

Sure, no problem! You can do this with the Submission Pre-Parser module. See here:
http://modules.formtools.org/submission_pre_parser/

That module lets you run your own code when the submission is first submitted. What you would do in your case would be to populate a submission field with a random value, in whatever format you want. You could then use that value in the email template to email the user.

You might want to give this tutorial a look over. Even though it's about a different topic (displaying data on POST form redirect pages), it covers the same subject: how to create a custom "unique field" in the database and have it populated with a random value:
http://docs.formtools.org/tutorials/post...rect_data/

Hope this helps, and good luck!

- Ben

[sumanguj]

its so complicated.

wish there's an example which has already been done. can't find it though

[Ben]

Sorry, Sumanguy

A far simpler solution would be to just use the unique submission ID that Form Tools automatically assigns to each submission after it's created - but it will always just be an integer, nothing more.

I think these are the only ways to really do it. Sorry I couldn't be any more help!

- Ben

[sumanguj]

btw, is it possible to show that ID (even if it is only integer) in the auto-respond email or in the thank you page?

if i can start the ID from say 50001, that is. any thoughts?

[Ben]

Hi Sumanguj,

Apologies for the wait!

btw, is it possible to show that ID (even if it is only integer) in the auto-respond email or in the thank you page?

Absolutely! If you're using a standard POST request for your form (i.e. just posting the data to the Form Tools process.php script), you can just go into the Form Tools interface and specify that field to be passed along to the thank you page. If you're using the API, you'll have all the info already returned by the ft_api_init_form_page() function - including the submission ID.

Let me know if you need further help on either of these.

if i can start the ID from say 50001, that is. any thoughts?

Sure, no problem! Just download this module: http://modules.formtools.org/submission_id_manager/

That let's you customize the next submission ID for your form, so you can set it up to start at 50,000.

Hope this helps!

- Ben

[sumanguj]

Someone else in my team made something else and i completely forgot about this.

Thank You. I'm in need of this very thing again and i'll look into it further.

P.S: I've been using your formtool for all my school related works. Thank You once again for such an amazing script.