com_connect - form and contact mailer

Bloke · 2018-12-12 17:01:57

dragondz has flagged up that some people don’t use the label attribute but use placeholders instead to indicate what users are expected to supply.

It’s of course possible to use label="" to suppress them, but that also means the default email that’s sent out doesn’t have the label(s) in front of the fields content. Even specifying the name attribute doesn’t fix this.

You can get around that by making your own body_form for the email body and hard-coding your own labels in.

Question is: are these workarounds okay or can/should we do something better in the default email template? A few options I’ve come up with, none of which are particularly appealing:

Leave it alone – the body_form attribute suffices for such cases.
Introduce some flag attribute to control this behaviour, like display_label and set it true by default. Bonus points for being able to override it on the containing <txp:com_connect> tag for all contained tags.
Automatically fall back on the name field (although that might backfire with things like checkboxes/radios because their name is auto-generated in some cases, I think).
Introduce a new attribute that can be used as the field label that appears in the email. Defaults to label unless this overrides it.
Set some user-definable priority system up on the container tag that allows you to define what happens, e.g. placeholder:label:name:"Field" would search the given fields in the given order and use the last entry as a fallback label in the email if all the previous ones were empty. Would only apply to the built-in message body, which is not ideal from a usability stance.
Something else…

Anyone have any views on this? Is it a problem we should tackle? If so, how?

colak · 2018-12-12 19:06:06

What if the plugin detects if there are labels and if not, the placeholder names are sent?

Too much maybe?

Dragondz · 2018-12-13 07:42:53

Hi, for me the solution 2 should be ok if it s simple to code.

zenman · 2018-12-21 07:51:11

Hello!

Is there any way to integrate the txp:com_connect form into a CRMs. In my case as far as I see it should be made like this: Request POST

http://site.com?token={dealer_token}.

How can I attach this “tail” ?token={dealer_token} to submited forms’ URLs?

etc · 2018-12-21 09:52:08

Just in case, you could try to insert

<input type="hidden" name="token" value="dealer_token_value" />

into your form, though this requires that CRM gets token from POST data.

zenman · 2018-12-24 08:01:01

etc wrote #315666:

Just in case, you could try to insert

<input type="hidden" name="token" value="dealer_token_value" />...

into your form, though this requires that CRM gets token from POST data.

Thanks. It does not work this way. The manual suggests the following code for JavaScript:

var request = new XMLHttpRequest();
request.open('GET', 'https://private-anon-e12e0a7fe4-ramex.apiary-mock.com/treatment/sources?token=3.844e83ae03647071f77bb...');
request.onreadystatechange = function () {
  if (this.readyState === 4) {
    console.log('Status:', this.status);
    console.log('Headers:', this.getAllResponseHeaders());
    console.log('Body:', this.responseText);
  }
};
request.send();

Or PHP below. Can it be integrated with txp:com_connect somehow?

<?php
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://private-anon-e12e0a7fe4-ramex.apiary-mock.com/treatment/sources?token=3.844e83ae03647071f77bb...");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, FALSE);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
var_dump($response);You haven’t made

Last edited by zenman (2019-01-16 18:35:02)

douglgm · 2019-01-11 10:41:02

Is there anything I need to do to get com_connect to work with pap_contact_cleaner?

The form is working fine, both plugins enabled, but the hidden fields from pap_contact cleaner aren’t appearing.

colak · 2019-01-11 10:56:15

The one below works for me.

# Name: pap_comconnect v0.1.2 (compressed)
# Type: Public plugin
# Prevent Spam through com_connect
# Author: tranquillo and Stef
# URL: https://forum.textpattern.com/viewtopic.php?pid=312784#p312784
# Recommended load order: 5

# .....................................................................
# This is a plugin for Textpattern CMS - http://textpattern.com/
# To install: textpattern > admin > plugins
# Paste the following text into the 'Install plugin' box:
# .....................................................................

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douglgm · 2019-01-11 11:10:06

Thanks Yiannis – that did the trick. I was using an old version. Just need to hope it gets my client off my back now! ;-)

RedFox · 2019-03-14 19:34:05

Because my client uses Microsoft Exchange on his computer(s) the IT agency wants me to (re)direct outgoing mail via com_connect to a specific SMTP adress: mailgtw01.desktopinacloud.nl … because they are using VPN … :|

Is that possible within the plugin? Textpattern? Any help is welcome … :)

Bloke · 2019-03-15 22:55:52

RedFox wrote #317055:

the IT agency wants me to (re)direct outgoing mail via com_connect to a specific SMTP adress… Is that possible within the plugin?

Not directly. You’ll need a module that hooks into the comconnect.deliver callback to bypass the internal mail handling and offload it to the nominated endpoint. The good news is that – depending on which library you choose to install (e.g. Pear, PHPMailer, SwiftMailer, msmtp, …) – it’s probably not many lines of code.

RedFox · 2019-03-16 07:15:00

Thanks Bloke. And what about e-mails not send via com_connect but via a mailto link? Same libs?

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etc wrote #315666:

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