I want to display a form via shortcode in wordpress and when the user submits the entry, some of the information should be send to an api and some should be stored in the database:
<?php
function form($atts, $content = null) {
extract( shortcode_atts( array(
), $atts ) );
echo '
<form id="trello" class="form-horizontal" method="post">
<div class="form-group">
<div class="col-md-6">
<input type="text" name="name" placeholder="Name" class="form-control"/>
</div>
<div class="col-md-6">
<input type="email" name="email" placeholder="eMail" class="form-control" />
</div>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<div class="col-md-12">
<input type="text" name="title" placeholder="Title" class="form-control" required/>
</div>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<div class="col-md-12">
<textarea name="content" cols="40" rows="10" placeholder="Content" class="form-control" required></textarea>
</div>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<div class="col-md-12">
<input type="file" name="attachment" class="form-control">
</div>
</div>
<div class="checkbox">
<label>
<input type="checkbox" name="notification"> Get an email, if something happens to the card
</label>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<input class="btn btn-primary" type="submit" name="submit">
</div>
</form>';
if (isset($_POST['title'])) { $title = $_POST['title']; };
if (isset($_POST['content'])) {$content = $_POST['content']; };
if (isset($_POST['name'])) {$name = $_POST['name']; };
if (isset($_POST['email'])) {$email = $_POST['email']; };
if (isset($_POST['attachment'])) {$file = $_POST['attachment']; };
if (isset($_POST['notification'])) {$notification = $_POST['notification']; };
if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {
trello_handler($title, $content, $name, $email, $file);
db_save($email, $notification);
}
}
add_shortcode('form', 'form');
the trello handler and the db_save looks like this:
function trello_handler($title, $content, $name, $email, $file) {
$titan = TitanFramework::getInstance( 'trello-tools' );
$key = $titan->getOption( 'trello_key' );
$token = $titan->getOption( 'trello_token' );
$trello = new Trello($key, null, $token);
$desc = $content."rn Reported by ".$name." (".$email.")";
$trello->actions->post("cards", json_encode(['name' => $title, 'desc' => $desc, 'idList' => "54f882603b3b0af795078283", 'pos' => "top", 'fileSource' => $file ]));
}
function db_save($email, $notification) {
global $wpdb;
$table_name = $wpdb->prefix . 'trello_submits';
$wpdb->insert(
$table_name,
array(
'email' => $email,
'notification' => $notification,
)
);
}
The problem is, that when I press the submit button, the page reloads and it displays a 404 error (the url is exactly the same) and no database entries are saved.
(The trello thing is managed by this framework: https://bitbucket.org/mattzuba/php-trello and settings by http://www.titanframework.net)
Can somebody tell me, why the form isn’t correct submitted?
Figured out what the problem was:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-pops-after-custom-form-submission-by-post
WordPress uses “name” intern and therefore this caused the 404 error.
Channing “name” to “clientname” fixed the issue.