Clear form values after sending the mail

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1

Hi,

i made a form like this https://gist.github.com/bastianallgeier/c396df7923848912393d and it works fine.

After sending the mail with the form values, I stay on the contact page and get a message, that the form has sent. But: My form contains still the sent values.

I want to clear the values, so the form is clear after sending and displaying the confirm-message.

Anybody have an idea :slight_smile:

2

In your form, use the value attribute, e.g.

<div class="field">
   <label for="name">Name <abbr title="required">*</abbr></label>
   <input type="text" id="name" name="name" value="<?= isset($data['name]? $data['name]: '' ; ?>>
</div>

In your controller:

// then after sending the mail, clear the $data array
$data = array();

// return the $data variable to template
return compact('alert', 'data');
3

Hi :slight_smile: thank you for the answer.
My problem is, that another person in my agency coded this files, but he left the agency.
I had this idea to clear the array(), too, but in the templates the values are given like this:

<label for="firstname"><?php echo l::get('i18nContactFirstname') ?> <span class="asterisk">*</span></label>
                                    <input type="text" id="firstname" name="firstname" <?php e($alert['firstname'], 'class="failed"') ?> value="<?php echo get('firstname'); ?>">

Do you have a solution for this? Maybe I edit the code and set the values in your way …

5

I don’t think this will work without changing the code.

6

Yep. Since the value that gets printed always comes from get(), there is no way to hide the content after the submission. Rewriting with a data array would make sense.

7

Okay, I will do this :slight_smile: Thank you texnixe and lukasbestle :slight_smile: