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hello@twosixmedia.co.uk.
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January 19, 2022 at 10:29 PM #33337
I want to send an email to an admin if the user ticks a checkbox to say that the form is complete.
I'm using the submit button as a save the form button so that the user can continue to fill out the form as they wish - once completed I want the admin to be notified that's it's complete and can be checked by them to verify completion.
I have added a checkbox yet - I want to know if it's possible firsthttps://sfgqualitymark.org.uk/green-care-form/
is this possible?
thanks
Paul
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January 20, 2022 at 6:43 AM #33343
Long Nguyen
ModeratorHi,
It is possible. You can check the field value via the global variable
$_POSTand use the form action hookrwmb_frontend_after_processto send the email after the user submits the form.add_action( 'rwmb_frontend_after_process', function( $config, $post_id ) { $value = empty( $_POST['field_id'] ) ? null : $_POST['field_id']; if ( 'yes' === $value ) { wp_mail( 'admin@domain.com', 'New submission', 'A new post has been just submitted.' ); wp_safe_redirect( 'thank-you' ); die; } }, 10, 2 );Refer to the documentation https://docs.metabox.io/extensions/mb-frontend-submission/#form-actions
January 20, 2022 at 3:49 PM #33346hello@twosixmedia.co.uk
ParticipantI have tried to set this up - but the email doesn't seem to be sending - what anm I doiung wrong? using a code snippets type of plugin for this as I'm using oxygen builder and no theme is used
<?php add_action( 'rwmb_frontend_after_process', function( $config, $post_id ) { $value = empty( $_POST['submit_form_for_review'] ) ? null : $_POST['submit_form_for_review']; if ( 'yes' === $value ) { wp_mail( 'paulburrows@me.com', 'New submission', 'A Green Care Quality Mark Form has been just submitted for review.' ); wp_safe_redirect( 'review' ); die; } }, 10, 2 ); ?>January 20, 2022 at 11:16 PM #33355ModeratorHi,
After submitting the form, does the function
wp_safe_redirect()work, redirect to the review page? If yes, the functionwp_mail()is not working due to some problem with SMTP on your hosting. You can contact your hosting support to fix this issue.Refer to this note in the WP documentation
https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_mail/#notesJanuary 21, 2022 at 12:39 AM #33359Participantno it doesn't redirect to the page - goes to the user dashboard. - other emails seem to be sending fine
January 21, 2022 at 12:45 PM #33372ModeratorHi,
If you use the
checkboxfield, the value submitted is1or0. So you should compare it with this value.$value = empty( $_POST['submit_form_for_review'] ) ? null : $_POST['submit_form_for_review']; if ( $value == 1 ) { ... }Refer to this documentation https://docs.metabox.io/fields/checkbox/#template-usage
January 21, 2022 at 1:34 PM #33373Participantthank you so much that worked
January 21, 2022 at 1:37 PM #33374Participantcan the email give any info the form submitted - who it was from or a link to it etc - at the moment the admin can't tell who submitted the form
January 22, 2022 at 8:43 AM #33387ModeratorHi,
You can create a name or email field, mark it required, and include this value in the email content.
January 22, 2022 at 9:54 PM #33401ParticipantI;m sorry - I'm not sure how to add ther field to the email in the code you sent me - the post title is required - could we add that to the email that is sent?
I added the code below to change it's name on the front end - not sure if that affects it
thank you for your help so far
Paul
add_filter( 'rwmb_frontend_post_title', function( $field ) {
if ( is_page( "Green Care Form" ) ) {
$field['required'] = true;
$field['name'] = 'Name of green care site';
return $field;
}
} );January 23, 2022 at 9:19 AM #33404ModeratorHi,
The code will look like
add_action( 'rwmb_frontend_after_process', function( $config, $post_id ) { $value = empty( $_POST['post_title'] ) ? null : $_POST['post_title']; wp_mail( 'admin@domain.com', 'New submission', 'A new post has been just submitted from '. $value .' user' ); }, 10, 2 );January 23, 2022 at 11:00 PM #33416Participantthe last code you sent doesn't check for the checkbox field for submission as in the code below
I want it so that the email is sent when the user ticks the checkbox and the post title is included in the email so the admin know which post is ready for review
sorry for all the questions on this but not a coder
<?php
add_action( 'rwmb_frontend_after_process', function( $config, $post_id ) {
$value = empty( $_POST['submit_form_for_review'] ) ? null : $_POST['submit_form_for_review'];
if ( $value == 1 ) {
wp_mail( 'paulburrows@me.com', 'New submission', 'A Green Care Quality Mark Form has been just submitted for review.' );
wp_safe_redirect( 'submitted' );
die;
}
}, 10, 2 );?>
January 24, 2022 at 7:45 PM #33431ModeratorHi,
You can just combine to code to add the post title to email content.
add_action( 'rwmb_frontend_after_process', function( $config, $post_id ) { $value = empty( $_POST['submit_form_for_review'] ) ? null : $_POST['submit_form_for_review']; if ( $value == 1 ) { $value = empty( $_POST['post_title'] ) ? null : $_POST['post_title']; wp_mail( 'paulburrows@me.com', 'New submission', 'A new post has been just submitted from '. $value .' user' ); wp_safe_redirect( 'submitted' ); die; } }, 10, 2 );January 24, 2022 at 8:01 PM #33432Participantbrilliant - thank you so much for all your help - works really well - one more question - is it possible to add html formatting to the email - like bold or headings etc
regards
Paul
January 24, 2022 at 8:07 PM #33433Participantsorry - I have worked out the html formatting - thanks again - really good/helpful support from you!!
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