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Delete an entry after after form is loaded

By: Henry King | Asked: 10/19/2022
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Henry King asked 2 years ago
Hi After Form A is submitted, the user will be redirected to Form B. Form B will take certain values from Form A but after the entry created by Form A but once Form B is loaded, the entry created by Form A can be deleted. I would like to delete an entry created by Form A after submission and successful redirection to Form B. How can this be done with PHP or Javascript?  I understand "FrmEntry::destroy( $_SESSION['entry_id'])" can be used to delete an entry but this is PHP and I don't know of a hook that can runs after a form is successfully loaded. Thanks.   Henry
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Victor Font answered 2 years ago
Wouldn't it be easier to not save Form A entries and pass the Form A values to Form B via a query string?
Henry King replied 2 years ago

Hi, that's possible but there are about 50 fields so the query string might be too long.

Victor Font replied 2 years ago

A query string of 50 fields would be too long.

FrmEntry::destroy() does indeed delete an entry and then clears Formidable's db caches of any remnants.

There are no PHP hooks that can detect when a form is successfully loaded into a browser window. That's a Document Object Model (DOM) event that can be detected by jQuery. I think what you need to do is pass the Form A entry id to Form B and save it in a hidden field. This way you can trigger an Ajax call to delete the Form A entry on the server when document.ready() triggers.

If you're not familiar with Ajax, the jQuery sends a request to the server to execute a custom PHP function. The reason you save the Form A entry id in Form B is to pass it as the Ajax parameter to your custom function.

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