[Plugin: Contact Form 7 Dynamic Text Extension] Cannot activate plugin

Hi bluekachina,

Sorry to hear you had trouble with the plugin. I’ve never come across this issue before. Are you using the latest version of WordPress and the latest version of the Contact Form 7 plugin (I have not tested the plugin with every combination of those)? Also, please make sure you are using the most up-to-date version of the Dynamic Text Extension plugin as well (1.0.1 at this point).

If you choose to try to get it to work, you might try turning on debug in wp-config.php, and seeing what comes out. i.e.

define( 'WP_DEBUG', true );

Or, there may be an issue with it interacting strangely with another plugin you are running.

Good luck with whatever you choose to do!

Thanks for the response sevenspark;
I enabled debugging as you suggested (temporarily of course),
and the fatal error it spit out is as follows:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function wpcf7_add_tag_generator() in \wp-content\plugins\contact-form-7-dynamic-text-extension\wpcf7_dynamic_text.php on line 163

Any ideas what could have prevented the function from being defined?

I am using WP v3.01 with all plugins up-to-date.

Regards

Greetings bluekachina,

This sounds like it’s most likely a dependency issue on the control panel side – that is, the Dynamic Text Extension plugin gets loaded before the Contact Form 7 plugin, so that function hadn’t been defined yet when it was called (they must be loading in a different order on my test environment, which is why the error hasn’t manifested itself for me).

I haven’t been able to reproduce the error, but I have updated the code with what I believe should fix the problem.

If you can, please download version 1.0.2 and try it out – you can get it here: https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/contact-form-7-dynamic-text-extension/download/ under “Other Versions”.

If this works for you, please confirm and I’ll update the main version to include the fix.

Thanks!

Thanks sevenspark.
I now have your plugin activated on my WP install!
:o)

I’ll give it a whirl, and keep you posted.

Cheers

What I was hoping for, was the ability to maintain a value-list/drop-down/combo-box such as those that were created using the default Contact Form 7 install.

Your plugin allows me to create an edit box that is pre-populated based on URL parameters, and while not exactly what I was looking for, this will do the trick.

Thanks again sevenspark