zem_contact, how do i customize the e-mail message output

brian.zerangue · 2005-06-09 21:00:54

I have one small question, I would like to edit the e-mail message output. Please forgive me, I’m a newbie to PHP and Textpattern.

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Here’s my code…
<pre>
<txp:zem_contact mailto=“emailaddress@email.com”>
<txp:zem_contact_text label=“Name” required=1 />
<txp:zem_contact_text label=“Address” required=1 />
<txp:zem_contact_text label=“City” required=1 />
<txp:zem_contact_text label=“Zip” required=1 />
<txp:zem_contact_text label=“Home Phone” required=1 />
<txp:zem_contact_text label=“Other Phone” />
<txp:zem_contact_email />
<txp:zem_contact_checkbox label=“I will be a group discussion leader” />
<txp:zem_contact_checkbox label=“I already have a group (total of 6 people including myself) and “ /> <txp:zem_contact_textarea label=“and here are their names…” />
<txp:zem_contact_checkbox label=“I would like to be placed in a group.” />
 
<hr />
Will you help us with:
<txp:zem_contact_checkbox label=“Greeting and making people feel welcome?” />
<txp:zem_contact_checkbox label=“Audio (training will be provided)?” />
<txp:zem_contact_checkbox label=“Video (training will be provided)?” />
 
<txp:zem_contact_submit label=“Register now” />
 
</txp:zem_contact>
</pre>
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Here’s the output that I get…

Name: John Doe
Address: 123 Test Ave.
City: Test Form Town
Zip: 90210
Home Phone: 213-555-0000
Other Phone: 213-555-0001
Email: john.doe@fakeaddress.com
I will be a group discussion leader: Yes I already have a group (total of 6 people including myself) and : Yes and here are their names…: Bob, Sue, Ralph, Jane, Hal I would like to be placed in a group.: Yes Greeting and making people feel welcome?: Yes Audio (training will be provided)?: Yes Video (training will be provided)?: Yes

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This is the output that I want…

Name:
John Doe

Address:
123 Test Ave.

City:
Test Form Town

Zip:
90210

Home Phone:
213-555-0000

Other Phone:
213-555-0001

Email:
john.doe@fakeaddress.com

I will be a group discussion leader:
Yes

I already have a group (total of 6 people including myself) and :
Yes

and here are their names…:
Bob, Sue, Ralph, Jane, Hal

I would like to be placed in a group.: Yes

Greeting and making people feel welcome?:
Yes

Audio (training will be provided)?:
Yes

Video (training will be provided)?:
Yes

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CAN ANYONE HELP ME WITH THIS?

jakob · 2005-06-11 14:39:03

Yes, you can do that but you have to edit the plug-in code.

Edit the plug-in source and look for the following code around line 61 in function zem_contact:

<code> $msg .= “$k: “.htmlspecialchars($v).”\n”; </code>

add some line break characters to the output as follows:

<code> $msg .= “$k: \n”.htmlspecialchars($v).”\n\n”; </code>

If you need to add other infos to help structure the email output i.e. similar to fieldset headers use zem_contact_hidden and a dummy value and it will be written into the mail.

brian.zerangue · 2005-06-11 19:46:42

Jakob -

Thank you so much! That worked perfect!

andreas · 2005-06-11 20:28:27

Another small thing:

would it be possible to have the contents of an input field (i.e. the subject) display as the actual subject of the email, perhaps with a prefix such as [mailform]?

kees-b · 2005-06-12 07:14:17

And what about using a custom field? I can’t find a way to insert <txp:custom_field name="myfield" /> to display it as the subject or add it to the message body.

Last edited by kees-b (2005-06-12 07:15:07)

Th0maz · 2005-11-26 00:48:22

Is it also possible to go even further than brian.zerangue’s idea and wrap the output in a table?
Am i able to input the normal table code and than wrap all inputs in tr’s and td’s?

Thanks in advance!

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