How do we prefill date and select boxes with the Login UpdateProfile snippet placeholders?

[pixelstuff]

The MODx user profile contains fields for “Date of birth” and “Gender” using a form date input type and form select box. How can we get the Login UpdateProfile snippet to prefill form inputs types for date or select boxes? I discovered the proper place holders for regular display, but couldn’t figure out how to get them to prefill their corresponding form fields.

Date of Birth placeholder:
[[+dob]] and needs to be displayed with [[+dob:date=`%D`]]

Attempted both of the above placeholders in the following input field, but neither will prefill.

<input type="date" name="dob" id="dob" value="[[+dob:date=`%D`]]" />

Gender placeholder:
[[+gender]] which is saved as a single number so needs [[+gender:select=`0=Prefer Not To Say&1=Male&2=Female&3=Other`]] in the final output.

I setup the following select box but couldn’t figure out what to do with the placeholder.

<select name="gender" id="gender">[[+gender]]
  <option value="0"></option>
  <option value="1">Male</option>
  <option value="2">Female</option>
  <option value="3">Other</option>
</select>

[halftrainedharry]

For the select box: Can’t you just use the snippet FormItIsSelected from the FormIt extra?

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For the date: Maybe try providing the date in the format yyyy-mm-dd.

[pixelstuff]

Both of those suggestions worked. Thank you.

[pixelstuff]

One other thing I’ve noticed, if anyone knows, is the stock forms for the EditProfile use things like [[!%login.fullname]] to insert the Full Name or Email label. Where are those stored? Where is it pulling the names from?

It doesn’t do this for [[!%login.dob]] or [[!%login.gender]] and it has a few other quirks like changing [[!%login.mobilephone]] into Cellphone despite the MODx manager page calling it Mobile phone number. So it must not be pulling the extended name from the manager.

[halftrainedharry]

MODX tags with a % ([[%...]]) are lexicon tags.
They are located in files. In this case it’s core/components/login/lexicon/en/updateprofile.inc.php (for the english language → .../en/...).

To change a value, don’t change it directly in the file. Go to → “Lexicons” in the manager, choose the correct values for “Namespace”, “Topic” and “Language” (in this case “login”, “updateprofile” and “en”) and edit it.

Lexicon strings are only useful if you have a multi-language site. If your whole site is in english, just hard-code the values directly in the form instead of using lexicon tags.