Can html (specifically forms) work in photo description?

sakphotographyonline

I have been trying to put html into the photo description. Specifically a form: an example of such a form is as follows:

<FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION="http://ww12.aitsafe.com/cf/addmulti.cfm">
<INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="userid" VALUE="E7303999">

<INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="qty1"> Custom Avalanche 11x14 Poster $62
<INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="product1" VALUE="Custom Avalanche 11x14 Poster">
<INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="price1" VALUE="62">

<INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="qty2">Custom Avalanche 16x24 Poster $105
<INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="product2" VALUE="Custom Avalanche 16x24 Poster">
<INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="price2" VALUE="105">

<INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="qty3">Custom Avalanche 20x30 Poster $136
<INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="product3" VALUE="Custom Avalanche 20x30 Poster">
<INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="price3" VALUE="136">

<INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" VALUE="Add to Cart">
</FORM>

I noticed that a href html for links works but what about other html. Can anyone help?

sbillard

Html tags are filtered out by the allowed tags option. If you really want to do this, you will have to enable all the tags you want to use. A better approach might be to use the custom data field for this. A description really is not a good place to put forms as descriptions get used all over the place.

sakphotographyonline

How would I go about making a custom data field? Could you point me in the right direction? I'm using the stopdesign theme and i'd love to put a part in there for each photo for that.

acrylian

Each image/album has already a custom data field. Much better than to enter the form manually would probably be to make a plugin/theme function for this. See the paypal or checkout plugins for examples (on our extensions page).

sakphotographyonline

I did look at the plug ins and also the tried the ezenpage but I guess for my purpose I would rather manually do it for each image. I tried to do it in the custom data field and it did the same filtering out as it did in the description. Any other ideas?

acrylian

If you don't allow the form tags in the "allowed tags" option as sbillard mentied they will be filtered always.

sakphotographyonline

thanks! sorry for being a newbie and not knowing much about this lol. So i finally got it to work in the description but the custom data field doesn't show anything at all on the page. even if i just type in there...

acrylian

You also have to place a call (function) for that custom data on the page you want it to show. By itself it does not know where to appear..:-)

sakphotographyonline

Ok. So I did some digging in the them i have. and a little guess work and I also looked in the function guide. what is the custom data function? I didn't see anything my guess is that i would have to insert something like this:

<?php if (function_exists('(whatever the function is for custom data is')) customdata(); ?>

where i want it to go in image.php (i have the stopdesign theme)

am i thinking correctly?

sbillard

There is a function `getCustomData()` which will return whatever is stored in the database. If you store the complete HTML you can just use `echo getCustomData();`. But it seems a waste of space to store the whole form. All you really need are the variable parts. Then you insert these into the form in your page script.

acrylian

No need for the function check it is a standard one. We try to make hte names of functions "speaking" so it is:

http://www.zenphoto.org/documentation/functions/_template-functions.php.html#functiongetAlbumCustomData
http://www.zenphoto.org/documentation/functions/_template-functions.php.html#functionprintAlbumCustomData
http://www.zenphoto.org/documentation/functions/_template-functions.php.html#functiongetImageCustomData
http://www.zenphoto.org/documentation/functions/_template-functions.php.html#functionprintImageCustomData

Hint for searching functions: On http://www.zenphoto.org/documentation/ click on "all elements" (top right) and use your browsers page search function.

sakphotographyonline

Y'all are awesome!! I got it to work. Many thanks!!