How to capture email and autofill a form?

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I have a "Schedule a demo" form on https://scalr.intl-l.com/ (right in the hero section)

When the client adds his email and clicks on "Schedule a Demo with a Solutions Engineer", the website should redirect him to https://get.scalr.com/demo-request/ and autofill his email in the "Business Email" field.

The question is: How can I capture his email with the form on homepage and autofill his email later on in the "request demo" form?

Thanks in advance!

Have you tried anything? Show us some code. – twodee Jan 26 '18 at 11:00 — twodee, Jan 26 '18 at 11:00
You can use $_GET parameters and add his email there. – Boian Ivanov Jan 26 '18 at 11:05 — Boian Ivanov, Jan 26 '18 at 11:05

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 26 '18 at 11:13

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On the user entering his email you can redirect him to the page with javascript and add the parameters as GET parameters like this :

$(location).attr('href', 'https://get.scalr.com/demo-request?email=foo@bar.baz')

After that you can simply check if there is a '$_GET['email']' parameter set it in the input field like this:

<?php echo $_GET['email'] ? $_GET['email'] : ''; ?>

P.S. : Obviously for this way you will need jQuery. It's possible to do it with vanilla JS, check this for explanation.

answered Jan 26 '18 at 11:13

Boian Ivanov

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Thanks! I'll try it today – Cristian Țurcanu Jan 26 '18 at 16:29
Sure, hope that it helps you. Also if you choose this as the answer, it would be very nice. Thanks ! – Boian Ivanov Jan 26 '18 at 16:30
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Here's my html form. Where do I need to add the script? – Cristian Țurcanu Jan 28 '18 at 12:35
You can add the script on the submission event. So after a user has send the email, you can redirect them to the desired location. After that it's just a matter of pasting the latter code as the value of the input. Hope that this helps. – Boian Ivanov Jan 29 '18 at 10:36

How to capture email and autofill a form?

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Schedule a Scalr Demo

with a solution engineer