The shortcode is used to show the frontend user an editable record. Normally, when this form is submitted, the user stays on the page and is shown a feedback message. However, it is possible to send the user to another page when the form is submitted. This page can be used to acknowledge the submission… (read)
Participants Database has two form elements for large blocks of text. In some cases, you will want to limit the number of characters your users can input. This is fairly simple to do on the frontend by using the HTML5 “maxlength” attribute. The maxlength attribute prevents any input to a textarea (or other input) beyond… (read)
The PDb_Template helper class makes setting up a custom display for a Participants Database record much easier in situations where you don’t want to just loop through the values. Sometimes you don’t want to treat each value the same, you want to lay out each value in a way that fits the information better. This… (read)
Sometimes you need to set the default value of a field depending on the context of the form you are using. Or perhaps you know what the field should default to because of which page the form is on or some other factor. This is easy to do using a custom template. If you’re not… (read)
Participants Database uses a “private id” value as a key for users to edit their own record. The plugin uses a short 5-character code for this purpose, it’s not meant to be airtight security, just something impractical to guess. Some administrators may want to use a larger term for their install, and it’s possible to… (read)
It’s possible to determine what records are shown using the pdb_list shortcode by using the “filter” attribute. If you want to show records from a range of dates, you can use the filter to determine the start and end dates for the range.
Participants Database has a simple kind of mass-edit functionality in the backend List Participants page. If one or more records are selected in the list, a function can be performed on all of them. Normally, this is things like deleting records or setting the “approved” flag. Other Participants Database add-ons add their own functions to… (read)
When a field is defined in Participants Database, it creates a data column in the database table to store the information that field will collect. The way databases work, it’s more efficient to tell it what kind of data you intend to store. So, when a field’s form element is defined, the “datatype” in the… (read)
