combining answers into one api value

[airplanenoise]

hi,

i am going to try it myself but maybe we can change the fields to the right of the API connexions to be a textarea, so that we can build an array in there? we have an API element that's actually an array. i don't really see a way to pre-process the answers and compile them into one shortcode...

thanks!

Kaz

[kennym]

I don't understand what you mean... can you give us a code example?

[airplanenoise]

thanks for the quick reply.

here's an example - we have a form that needs to be sent to an API. one of the API fields is a questionnaire, and the questionnaire excepts a JSON array, like this :

[questionnaire] => [ { "que":"Enter Your Question Here", "ans":"Enter Your Answer" }, { "que":"Enter Your Question Here", "ans":"Enter Your Answer" } ]
the goal would be to build this array from various questions in the contact form, like this :

[questionnaire] => [ { "que":"[question-1-label]", "ans":"[question-1-answer]" }, { "que":"[question-2-label]", "ans":"[question-2-answer]" } ]
where the label is the actual question value, and the answer is what the person replied...

seems very doable.

i am looking into the plugin code and am on line 272 of the class-cf7-api-admin.php to try to replace input by a textarea, we could then write our own json code in that area.

thoughts?

[airplanenoise]

something like this to start,

                            <th style="text-align:left;"><?php echo $mail_tag->name;?></th>
                            <td><?php if($mail_tag->name == 'questionnaire'):?>
									<textarea id="sf-<?php echo $mail_tag->name;?>" name="qs_wpcf7_api_map[<?php echo $mail_tag->name;?>]" class="large-text"><?php echo isset($wpcf7_api_data_map[$mail_tag->name]) ? $wpcf7_api_data_map[$mail_tag->name] : "";?></textarea>
								<?php else: ?>
									<input type="text" id="sf-<?php echo $mail_tag->name;?>" name="qs_wpcf7_api_map[<?php echo $mail_tag->name;?>]" class="large-text" value="<?php echo isset($wpcf7_api_data_map[$mail_tag->name]) ? $wpcf7_api_data_map[$mail_tag->name] : "";?>" />
								<?php endif; ?>
							</td>
                </tr>

based on the mail tag (a bit hacky).

how would i them be able to aggregate several form answers into one api field?

:)

Kaz

[airplanenoise]

any luck @kennym ? :)