Question

I am trying to auto fill a form (currently using contact form 7) with wordpress user details.

this is the current code:

<script type="text/javascript">
<?php 
    if (is_user_logged_in()){   
        global $current_user;
        get_currentuserinfo(); ?>
        document.getElementByName("your-name").value = "<?php $current_user->user_email ?>";
        <?php
    } ?>
</script>

I am using the contact form 7 plugin so it is called via short code.

Nothing seems to happen with this code but I have gotten it to echo me the user email so I don’t think that its a problem with fetching the data. If I had to bet, it would be a problem with filling the form with the data.

I have seen some auto fill plugins for contact form 7 but I also want to do this with other forms (specifically gravity forms) so I need a universal solution.

Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks.

Answer 1

First ensure that your contact form has HTML like <input name='your-name' ...> Then try and put your code inside a window.onload event. Your javascript is probably running before the page has finished loading everything including your contact form.

Something like this:

<script type="text/javascript">
window.onload = function () {
    document.getElementsByName("your-name")[0].value = "<?php $current_user->user_email ?>";
}
</script>

Edit: Fixed as per comments below