Title: Getting form fields correctly
Last modified: March 7, 2023

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# Getting form fields correctly

 *  Resolved [ilan76](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ilan76/)
 * (@ilan76)
 * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-form-fields-correctly/)
 * Hi,
 * I seem to be missing something in getting the form fields.
 * When using:
 * $url = $_POST[‘url-1’]; and sending this variable to 3rd party API it working
   ok.
 * When using:
 * $fields = Forminator_API::get_form_fields($form_id);
 *     $url = null;
 *     foreach ($fields as $field) {
 *         if ($field[‘element_id’] === ‘url-1’) {
 *             $url = $field[‘value’];
 *             break;
 *         }
 * and sending the $url to the same API, I get an error.
   Am Igetting the value fields
   method correctly?

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 *  Plugin Support [Saurabh – WPMU DEV Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudev-support7/)
 * (@wpmudev-support7)
 * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-form-fields-correctly/#post-16538461)
 * Hi [@ilan76](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ilan76/)
 * Hope you are doing fine!
 * The method “`Forminator_API::get_form_fields`” method will return each field 
   definition as an object, once you detect the field you need to retrieve the data
   for, you can use the `$data` array to retrieve the value based on the slug (id
   of the field). Please see attached code example.
 *     ```wp-block-code
       $form_fields = Forminator_API::get_form_fields( $form_id );
   
           $url = null;
   
           foreach($form_fields as $form_field){
   
   
               if ($form_field->slug === 'url-1') {
   
                   $url = $data[$form_field->slug];          
   
                   break;
   
               }
           }
       ```
   
 * Hope this information helps.
 * Kind regards
 * Luis
 *  Thread Starter [ilan76](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ilan76/)
 * (@ilan76)
 * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-form-fields-correctly/#post-16538835)
 * Hi Luis [@wpmudev-support7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudev-support7/),
   thanks for your quick response.
 * I tried this code but it still doesn’t work.
 * The $url value still gives error, is it type string?
 * Where can I see more examples in the Docs for relevant code? couldn’t find this
   code snippet…
 * Thanks
 *  Plugin Support [Nithin – WPMU DEV Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudevsupport11/)
 * (@wpmudevsupport11)
 * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-form-fields-correctly/#post-16547391)
 * H i@ilan76,
 * Could you please share the full code which you are trying?
 * > Where can I see more examples in the Docs for relevant code? couldn’t find 
   > this code snippet…
 * We only have documentation regarding the methods, please check the following:
 * [https://wpmudev.com/docs/api-plugin-development/forminator-api-docs/](https://wpmudev.com/docs/api-plugin-development/forminator-api-docs/)
 * If you looking for demo you could browser through our Github:
 * [https://gist.github.com/wpmudev-sls](https://gist.github.com/wpmudev-sls)
 * You can find some example usages:
 * [https://gist.github.com/wpmudev-sls/d6f5bfbf17af7d5edf972e863aa0e01a](https://gist.github.com/wpmudev-sls/d6f5bfbf17af7d5edf972e863aa0e01a)
 * [https://gist.github.com/wpmudev-sls/f0eb6e21bde7d5340f8aa904a7ec92e7](https://gist.github.com/wpmudev-sls/f0eb6e21bde7d5340f8aa904a7ec92e7)
 * [https://gist.github.com/wpmudev-sls/d2ddb3712bcb332b3e9630f600cc6f7d](https://gist.github.com/wpmudev-sls/d2ddb3712bcb332b3e9630f600cc6f7d)
 * Please do note the above example shared isn’t directly related to the query and
   is only meant to highlight the usage of the mentioned methods.
 * Please do let us know if it helps in moving forward.
 * Kind Regards,
 * Nithin
 *  Thread Starter [ilan76](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ilan76/)
 * (@ilan76)
 * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-form-fields-correctly/#post-16548200)
 * Hi Nithin [@wpmudevsupport11](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudevsupport11/),
 * That is the code:
 * $form_fields = Forminator_API::get_form_fields( $form_id );
 * $url = null;
 * foreach($form_fields as $form_field){
 * if ($form_field->slug === ‘url-1’) {
 * $url = $data[$form_field->slug];
 * break;
 * }
 * }
 * And then sending the $url to other functions/API… the url doesn’t get the value.
 * However, when using with POST, it works correctly:
 * $url = $_POST[‘url-1’];
    -  This reply was modified 3 years, 3 months ago by [ilan76](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ilan76/).
 *  Plugin Support [Laura – WPMU DEV Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudev-support8/)
 * (@wpmudev-support8)
 * [3 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-form-fields-correctly/#post-16554020)
 * Hi [@ilan76](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ilan76/)
 * Thanks for response!
 * I read this entire thread and I think there’s a bit of misunderstanding here (
   including on our end, for which I apologize).
 * The “get_form_fields()” API methiod will not ever give you a “value” of the URL
   field because it doesn’t get the value. It returns form fields but not submission
   data.
 * What you are trying to do, if I correctly understand, is sending data from the
   form to external API upon form submission, right? These Forminator API methods
   will not be of use in such case and instead you need to use plugin hooks for 
   this.
 * I am not sure on what hook you are actually triggering your code but one of the
   ways to get the data from the form safely is to use
 * a) get_entry() method if you do know submission ID already (so your code is called
   at the moment that submission ID is already created and available)
 * b) or use this code to get all the fields values
 * `$submitted_data = Forminator_CForm_Front_Action::$prepared_data;`
 * where you’ll get full data (just “var_dump” it to error log to see structure 
   first) in submitted_data variable
 * c) or go with yet another strategy by modifying this ready-to-use code:
 * [https://gist.github.com/adczk/a314ad50036ffd449147d28f2e876e2b](https://gist.github.com/adczk/a314ad50036ffd449147d28f2e876e2b)
 *  Plugin Support [Amin – WPMU DEV Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudev-support2/)
 * (@wpmudev-support2)
 * [3 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-form-fields-correctly/#post-16573880)
 * Hello [@ilan76](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ilan76/) ,
 * We haven’t heard from you for several days now, so it looks like you don’t have
   more questions for us.
 * Feel free to re-open this ticket if needed.
 * Kind regards
    Kasia

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