Frog CMS

I’m frantically busy doing something else, so naturally this came back to mind…

A glimmer of an idea inspired by Craig’s solution for multilingual titles:

• have your list of contact names in the parent page — perhaps with the link made by number or code that gets stored in a session variable;
• on the contact form page, have a page-part devoted to listing ALL the separate contact info, each on a given line;
• use Craig’s technique combined with that session variable to pull out and store the relevant data for that particular person;
• shove it into the one, single contact form using PHP.

So the links might look like this:

<a href="cb">Charlie Brown</a>
<a href="lp">Linus van Pelt</a>
<a href="oo">Olive Oyl</a>

And the page part could have a comma-delimited list (or something):

cb,Charlie Brown,chasbown@example.tv,321 4567
lp,Linus van Pelt,lvpelt@example.tv,321 5678
oo,Olive Oyl,olive@example.tv,321 6789

And your preg-match routine (see example from “multilingual titles” link above) stores them into variables that then get plugged into the single contact form.

Will it work? Craig’s been working hard today already, I noticed, but maybe he can opine whether this is a rubbish idea, or whether it might have a future.

I don’t know if that would work, but thought I’d toss it out there, just in case it has any merit.

If it does work, it would make it pretty easy to keep updated…