Started 4 years ago by brad | 14 posts |
I want to create a number of stock forms that people can choose from. In each of these forms there would be a question asking who do you want to send the results to? Is this possible?
Basically I want to create an open form that anyone can use and get information sent back to them without having to log into Machform.
So people would choose the recipient from a dropdown list? Or just a simple text box?
MachForm Founder
Either from a dropdown list or to a specific recipient based on a field's input result. Ie, Sales question goes to xxx@xxxx.com, and Support question goes to yyy@xxxx.com
Okay, let say we have a form with id = 3 and the dropdown list is having id = 'element_4' (view the html source of your form to see it).
Edit your includes/helper-functions.php file. Around line 470 you'll find this code:
$mail->Send();
$mail->ClearAddresses();
Right below that code, insert this code:
if(function_exists("form{$form_id}_hook_email")){
$carbon_email = call_user_func("form{$form_id}_hook_email",$table_data);
if(!empty($carbon_email)){
$mail->AddAddress($carbon_email);
$mail->Send();
}
}
Next edit your hooks/custom_hooks.php file and insert this code below anywhere:
function formXXX_hook_email($user_input){
//change the email addresses below
$email_list[1] = 'email1@example.com';
$email_list[2] = 'email2@example.com';
$email_list[3] = 'email3@example.com';
$attn = $user_input['element_YYY'];
$target_email = $email_list[$attn];
if(!empty($target_email)){
return $target_email;
}else {
return true;
}
}
Adjust the value in that code to match your own form id and dropdown id.
XXX -> form id
YYY -> dropdown id
That would send email to different address based on the selection of a dropdown list.
MachForm Founder
You are an absolute genius Yuniar. I congratulate you on excellent proficiency in PHP and your amazing product.
Cheers :)
Thank you dgrebb :)
MachForm Founder
I,ve a question, i used the above system but i want send the form just to the recipient based on the field's input result, not also to the main email of the form (the above way send 2 emails).
I tryied setting a false email (es. info@mydomain.fals) but its not a good way, undesclosed-recipient come back to my server...
There's another way to de-active the main email and send just the selected on the form?
(sorry for my bad english..)
I trying .. in helper-functions.php if i comments at line 452 in this way may work ? :
/*$email_address = explode(',',$form_email);
foreach ($email_address as $email){
$email = trim($email);
$mail->AddAddress($email);
}*/
Actually there is a better way. Simply comment this line:
$mail->Send();
MachForm Founder
i did it and it works, i added also a new function in the helper-functions.php / c.a line 463, after the commented Send(), to set other forms to act normally (using the default email):
//$mail->Send(); //disabled
// start // if there's Not the formXhook_email , acts the 'send()'
if(!function_exists("form{$form_id}_hook_email")){
$mail->Send(); // goes
}
// end
It works ... should be correct ? (im not a good programmer...)
Hmm.. interesting, I never thought that way. But yeah, that works.
MachForm Founder
As this code changes the includes/helper-functions.php & hooks/custom_hooks.php files, does this mean it would be best to set this up as a seperate folder for the form - if you have multiple forms in use and only this form is to have this feature?
Not necessarily. As long as you change the XXX in formXXX_hook_email with your particular form_id number, then the functionality will be applied to that form only.
MachForm Founder
How about send emails to two or more recipients (multiple selection) and CC to the form submitter?
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