Send email if checkbox is ticked

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January 19, 2022 at 10:29 PM #33337

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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 first

https://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
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Hi,

It is possible. You can check the field value via the global variable $_POST and use the form action hook rwmb_frontend_after_process to 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 #33346
hello@twosixmedia.co.uk
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I 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 #33355

Long Nguyen
Moderator

Hi,

After submitting the form, does the function wp_safe_redirect() work, redirect to the review page? If yes, the function wp_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/#notes

January 21, 2022 at 12:39 AM #33359

hello@twosixmedia.co.uk
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no 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 #33372
Long Nguyen
Moderator
Hi,

If you use the checkbox field, the value submitted is 1 or 0. 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 #33373

hello@twosixmedia.co.uk
Participant

thank you so much that worked

January 21, 2022 at 1:37 PM #33374

hello@twosixmedia.co.uk
Participant

can 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 #33387

Long Nguyen
Moderator

Hi,

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 #33401

hello@twosixmedia.co.uk
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I;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 #33404
Long Nguyen
Moderator
Hi,

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 );
```
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