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Craft Forms#

You can also use Formie to content manage a few common Craft-centric forms for your site. While you'd typically create the following in your templates as static forms, or content managed through Global Sets, you can use Formie to content manage the form fields, labels and more. This allows you to provide your clients with a central area for managing all forms on your site.

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User Login#

Firstly, follow the instructions on the Front-End User Accounts (opens new window) article, until you reach the "Login Form" section. This is where Formie comes in.

Then, create a new form called Login (with the handle login). To this form, create the following fields (with handles):

• Single-Line Text (loginName)
• Single-Line Text (password)
• Agree (rememberMe)

Be sure to set the Input Attributes for the password field to Name type, Value password to ensure your field is typed as a password input for security purposes.

Next, we'll begin templating. Fetch the form first:

{% set form = craft.formie.forms.handle('login').one() %}

And then instead of using craft.formie.renderForm(), we'll want to modify this to render just the first page of forms, containing our fields, but set the action input to the Craft users/login action endpoint

<form method="post" accept-charset="UTF-8" id="{{ form.formId }}" data-config="{{ form.configJson }}">
    {{ actionInput('users/login') }}
    {{ csrfInput() }}

    {{ craft.formie.renderPage(form, null, {
        fieldNamespace: '',
    }) }}
</form>

There's a few important things to note here. Firstly, we're using the users/login action endpoint, instead of formie/submissions/submit. This is because we don't want to submit the form to Formie and save a submission each time this form is filled out - like you would any other form. Instead, we want to log in users. In this way, we're purely using Formie for content management of the form fields, and some settings.

Secondly, we're not rendering the entire form, but calling craft.formie.renderPage() which will render just the first page and all its fields. You'll notice we're passing in the fieldNamespace render option with an empty string. This is because Formie will namespace the fields with fields by default, but for the login form, we don't want that.

To illustrate, rendering the form without this setting would produce:

<input type="text" name="fields[loginName]">

However, Craft's action controller won't be able to use that. Instead, by passing in an empty string '' we can remove the namespace, producing:

<input type="text" name="loginName">

The finalised form, with some error-handling and redirects would look something like:

{% set form = craft.formie.forms.handle('login').one() %}

{% do craft.formie.registerAssets(form) %}

<form method="post" accept-charset="UTF-8" id="{{ form.formId }}" data-config="{{ form.configJson }}">
    {{ actionInput('users/login') }}
    {{ csrfInput() }}

    {% if errorMessage is defined %}
        <p>{{ errorMessage }}</p>
    {% endif %}

    {% if form.getRedirectUrl() %}
        {{ redirectInput(form.getRedirectUrl()) }}
    {% endif %}

    {{ craft.formie.renderPage(form, null, {
        fieldNamespace: '',
    }) }}
</form>

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User Registration#

Firstly, follow the instructions on the Front-End User Accounts (opens new window) article, until you reach the "Registration Form" section. This is where Formie comes in.

Then, create a new form called Register (with the handle register). To this form, create the following fields (with handles):

• Single-Line Text (username)
• Single-Line Text (firstName)
• Single-Line Text (lastName)
• Email Address (email)
• Single-Line Text (password)

Be sure to set the Input Attributes for the password field to Name type, Value password to ensure your field is typed as a password input for security purposes.

The form should be pretty simple to put together, which renders the page of fields, again with no namespace for fields.

{% set form = craft.formie.forms.handle('register').one() %}

{% do craft.formie.registerAssets(form) %}

<form method="post" accept-charset="UTF-8" id="{{ form.formId }}" data-config="{{ form.configJson }}">
    {{ actionInput('users/save-user') }}
    {{ csrfInput() }}

    {{ craft.formie.renderPage(form, null, {
        fieldNamespace: '',
    }) }}
</form>

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User Password Reset#

The Reset Password Form and Set Password Form follow the same process as the above forms. Follow the instructions on the Front-End User Accounts (opens new window) article.

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User Profile#

Firstly, follow the instructions on the Front-End User Accounts (opens new window) article, until you reach the "User Profile Form" section. This is where Formie comes in.

Then, create a new form called Profile (with the handle profile). To this form, create the following fields (with handles):

• Single-Line Text (username)
• Single-Line Text (firstName)
• Single-Line Text (lastName)
• Email Address (email)
• Single-Line Text (password)
• Single-Line Text (newPassword)

Be sure to set the Input Attributes for the password fields to Name type, Value password to ensure your field is typed as a password input for security purposes.

The form should be pretty simple to put together, which renders the page of fields, again with no namespace for fields.

{% set form = craft.formie.forms.handle('profile').one() %}

{% do craft.formie.registerAssets(form) %}

{% set user = user ?? currentUser %}

{% do craft.formie.populateFormValues(form, {
    username: user.username,
    email: user.email,
    firstName: user.firstName,
    lastName: user.lastName,
}) %}

<form method="post" accept-charset="UTF-8" enctype="multipart/form-data" id="{{ form.formId }}" data-config="{{ form.configJson }}">
    {{ actionInput('users/save-user') }}
    {{ hiddenInput('userId', user.id) }}
    {{ csrfInput() }}

    {{ craft.formie.renderPage(form, null, {
        fieldNamespace: '',
    }) }}
</form>

There's a few things different, compared to the Register form. We're using {% set user = user ?? currentUser %} to either fetch the user variable if validation fails, or falling back on currentUser.

With this user variable, we can populate the form with values from the user's profile.

{% do craft.formie.populateFormValues(form, {
    username: user.username,
    email: user.email,
    firstName: user.firstName,
    lastName: user.lastName,
}) %}

This will populate all the fields in the form. We're also passing {{ hiddenInput('userId', user.id) }} to let the form know we're updating a user.

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User Photos#

While using a File Upload field would do the trick in allowing you to upload a new photo, it won't handle managing existing ones. This is because the File Upload field uses a <input type="file"> element, which cannot be populated with an existing image.

For that reason, we highly recommend adding this separately to the form template:

{% if user.photo %}
    <label>Photo</label>
    {{ user.photo.getImg({width: 150, height: 150}) | attr({
        id: 'user-photo',
        alt: user.friendlyName,
    }) }}

    <label for="delete-photo">
        {{ input('checkbox', 'deletePhoto', '1', {
            id: 'delete-photo',
        }) }}
        Delete photo
    </label>
{% endif %}

<label for="photo">Upload a new photo</label>
{{ input('file', 'photo', null, {
    id: 'photo',
    accept: 'image/png,image/jpeg',
}) }}

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User Custom Fields#

The above profile form does a great job of updating all the core user attributes, but it's also common to have custom fields attached to your user profiles. Rather than duplicating every field you have attached to your user elements in Formie, we'd recommend to template these as normal.

{{ craft.formie.renderPage(form, null, {
    fieldNamespace: '',
}) }}

{% namespace 'fields' %}
    <label for="bio">Bio</label>
    {{ tag('textarea', {
        text: user.bio,
        id: 'bio',
        name: 'bio',
    }) }}
{% endnamespace %}

Here, we render the core fields (username, firstName, email, etc.) first, which are managed by Formie. Then, we wrap all our custom fields in a {% namespace 'fields' %} tag, which automatically sets the name attributes to fields[myNameAttribute] and output each custom field for users.

There's nothing stopping you from duplicating fields in Formie though, if that's what you'd like to do!

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Entry Form#

You could also use Formie to manage an Entry Form (opens new window), but you'd also be duplicating a lot of fields in Formie to the ones you've already attached to the entry.

For this reason, we recommend you stick with the custom Entry Form (opens new window).