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Receiving public submissions

How to receive public submissions.

LiveWhale comes with functionality that allows visitors to your public web site to submit news stories, events, and images to the CMS. These items will be added to the “Public” group in LiveWhale.

Publicly submitted data will not show up on the public web site unless a widget explicitly requests items from the “Public” group, or if the data is copied to or shared with another group.

A default public submission template lives at /livewhale/default/submit.php with a companion “thanks page” at /livewhale/default/submit_thanks.php. These templates can be copied and modified for use within your web site.

Public submissions support captchas if enabled.

Additional configuration options are available for public submissions:

Open the public LiveWhale config (/livewhale/client/public.config.php) using an FTP client or via the command line.

To specify the url you should be taken to after filling out the form, enter it like this:

$GLOBALS[‘LIVEWHALE_CONFIG’][‘PUBLIC_THANKS_URL’]=’/thanks.php’;

$GLOBALS[‘LIVEWHALE_CONFIG’][‘PUBLIC_QUESTION’]=’In what year was Lake Forest founded?’;
$GLOBALS[‘LIVEWHALE_CONFIG’][‘PUBLIC_HELP’]=’This question will help us make sure you’re not a robot. Hint: Look at Lake Forest’s <a href=”http://www.lakeforest.edu/images/sitewide/site_logo.gif” target=”_blank”>logo</a>.’;
$GLOBALS[‘LIVEWHALE_CONFIG’][‘PUBLIC_ANSWER’]=’1857’;
$_LW->CONFIG[‘PUBLIC_THANKS_URL’]=’/thanks.php’; // set the public thanks ur
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