Comments on: Using Forms to Improve Your 404s

By: Troy

Troy — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:16:08 +0000

Where in the html page do I put the php that I copy/paste from above?

By: Chris Coyier

Chris Coyier — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:13:13 +0000

@Daniel Groves

There is also more documentation on prefilling fields here:
http://wufoo.com/docs/url-modifications/#format

There is a way to do it no matter how you use wufoo forms: directly on wufoo.com, embedded with the JavaScript method (shown here), or with the iframe embed method.

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:35:44 +0000

@daniel

Chris explains it in the article:

"So to prefill our hidden fields, we add this key/value to the JavaScript embed code, inside the initialize function"

But you can also place the variables in the form values like so:

value=""

Only thing is I don't think wufoo allows you to do that so it would have to be a custom form.

By: Chad

Chad — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:28:08 +0000

Great idea, I just retweeted it.

By: Daniel Groves

Daniel Groves — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:20:33 +0000

Nice idea. How do you get the hidden fields to be filled out automatically?

By: Michael Witwicki

Michael Witwicki — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:06:24 +0000

Hey Chris,

We do just this on our site. However, you have to feed Matilda three pieces of clip-art bacon before you get to the form.

http://booyant.com/this/is/not/a/page

Cheers! Great read.