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Hello Forminator friends,
long story short, I’m making a website where I need to get an ID of a form using form title. So I have this function on my custom plugin where it can automatically create a pre-defined form (I learned how to make that on another tutorial).
To show the form on a page you need to call a shortcode, for example “[forminator_form id=”62″]”. The problem is: on a different site, the ID of the form is going to be different right?
What i can guarantee is the title of the form on my plugin is 100% going to be the same (example: “Kemal’s Registration Form” or in this case “test form”)
now, I have made a function to get an id of a post by entering the form title and a shortcode to echo the form’s id. However it’s showing nothing so far. here’s the code:
//this function is to get a page id by title
function getPageByTitle( $page_title, $output = OBJECT, $post_type = 'page' ){
global $wpdb;
if ( is_array( $post_type ) ) {
$post_type = esc_sql( $post_type );
$post_type_in_string = "'" . implode( "','", $post_type ) . "'";
$sql = $wpdb->prepare(
"
SELECT ID
FROM $wpdb->posts
WHERE post_title = %s
AND post_type IN ($post_type_in_string)
",
$page_title
);
} else {
$sql = $wpdb->prepare(
"
SELECT ID
FROM $wpdb->posts
WHERE post_title = %s
AND post_type = %s
",
$page_title,
$post_type
);
}
$page = $wpdb->get_var( $sql );
if ( $page ) {
return get_post( $page, $output );
}
return null;
}
//this code is to echo the id if the function success
add_shortcode('wd-couple-form','show_couple_form');
function show_couple_form($atts){
$pagename = getPageByTitle('test form');
echo $pagename;
}I think I am a literal stupid, know that get_page_by_title function has been deprecated but can’t get WP_query to work properly, and i stole that function from Stackoverflow, and can’t get it to work.
now, what I’m thinking is this :
1. Is there a way in Forminator’s API to determine the Form’s ID? that way I don’t need the hassle of making an abomination of a function like above
or
2. Where did I do wrong on the function that I tragically copy-paste. because the add_shortcode part is sure as hell too simple to fail.
p/s: you might want to explain to me as if I’m 5 years old or as if I’m a cat.
Thanks for your help!