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Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Send PDF for Contact Form 7] [Date] Not Working Correctly ***BUG***Wonderful! Thank you I will check it out.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Send PDF for Contact Form 7] [Date] Not Working Correctly ***BUG***OK, I understand it now – the form for settings is not very clearly defined why there are two different settings for the date format.
I still think it would be more functional if you had two separate settings, one for Date format and one for Time format and then simply allow a check box for whether to use either or both the date or time setting for the filename.
Doing that allows for a lot more flexibility in the form creation. As one could select either [Date] OR [Time] or use both. Doing this would allow for the following:
“On [Date] at [Time]…” OR you could use “At [Time] on [Date]…” OR you could use “Created: [Date] [Time]”
I am highly resistant toward modifying the functions.php file for a single plug-in, page use, etc. so in this case I will just adjust to having to take out the carriage returns that were added when I cut and paste the HTML over to the form plug-in.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Send PDF for Contact Form 7] [Date] Not Working Correctly ***BUG***I still maintain there is a bug.
On the settings for a given form there are two entries for date format.
The one which specifically references the [date] tag is set as follows:
– – – Begin cut and paste – – –
Use [date] in the name of your PDF
Enter date format without space, -, /, _, etc..
Fj,Y April7,2017
– – – End Cut and Paste – – –Then further down is a section that reads as follows:
– – – Begin cut and paste – – –
Select a date and time format —> F j, Y g:i a —> April 7, 2017 9:24 am
– – – End Cut and Paste – – –This second section DOES NOT reference the [date] tag.
So what you are say is that the first setting is useless and has ZERO effect on the resulting form output despite the fact that it specifically says that it should whereas the second setting DOES have an effect on the resulting form output despite the fact that it completely omits any reference to the [date] tag.
So that is, to me, a bug when you have a setting that does not do what it says it does and another setting does something that it does not say it does. Therefore, if that is how this should work then the first setting should be removed from the settings page and the second setting should be edited to show that it directly effects the inputted field on the resulting PDF document.
I would, as mentioned elsewhere, also like to see a second edit window so that CSS style can be applied in what effectively would be placed in the <style></style> section of the head of a page. Inserting CSS styling inline with the HTML tags is a pain and results in messy looking code.
Another thing I ran into is that I was using Dreamweaver to lay out my form’s PDF output and the editor for this plugin appears to see and treat word-wraps as carriage returns and effectively applies a “<br>” when one was not explicitly presented.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Send PDF for Contact Form 7] Image header not workingSolution: Embed the Image(s) in the HTML markup.
While I still have not gotten as far as testing it end to end, it does work as far as putting the image in the proper place in the PDF Preview screen.
In my case I did not even try using the provided form to insert an image because I was pretty certain I wanted more control over where it was placed.
So what works for me is the following in the HTML markup:
<div class=”page-container”>
<div class=”page-header” style=”margin:0;”>
<div style=”float: left;width: 20%;”>
</div>
<div style=”float: left;width: 80%;text-align: center;font-size: 25px;font-weight: 700; margin-top: 50px;”><p> <br>EMS Road Docs of Illinois<br>RELEASE and WAIVER of LIABILITY</p></div>
</div>
</div>I still have some tweaking to do with that, as this plug-in does not appear to recognize some of the CSS I have above even though the documentation for mPDF suggests that it is indeed supported.