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Jim

4:50 pm July 14, 2008

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Please replace the ??? with your data!

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Oliver,

I'd love to use Cforms for every directory listing we have, but that would require making hundreds of forms, each directed to a different email address. Any thoughts on automating something like this? In PhpMyDirectory it creates an email form for each directory listing, it would be nice to be able to do that with Cforms in Wordpress.

Cheers,

Jim

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Oliver

Munich, Germany

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6:48 pm July 14, 2008

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What's your URL?

How do you produce a 'directory listing'?

hundreds of forms, each directed to a different email address

I'm quite positive that this won't be necessary.

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Jim

6:45 pm July 14, 2008

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http://www.localsustainability.net

Directory listings each have their own page in WP, and currently just have an email link to each specific farm and am using an email obfuscator plugin which I'm not sure is working.

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Oliver

Munich, Germany

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7:24 pm July 14, 2008

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What I would do, is create a Wordpress custom field (on the write page UI) for each page, call it e.g. "email_address" and enter the listings email address.

Then change line 315 in lib_nonajax.php from:

$replyto = preg_replace( array('/;|#|\\|/'), array(','), stripslashes(get_option('cforms'.$no.'_email')) );

to:

$replyto = preg_replace( array('/;|#|\\|/'), array(','), check_default_vars(stripslashes(get_option('cforms'.$no.'_email')) ,$no));

do the same for lib_ajax.php, line 349.

Now instead of providing an actual email address in your cforms admin config field, add "{dir_listing_email}"
add 'dir_listing_email' as a new custom variable to lib_aux.php, in check_default_vars{.., above line 169:

$dle = get_post_custom_values( 'dir_listing_email', $pid );

$dle = implode(', ', $dle);

$m = str_replace( '{dir_listing_email}', $dle, $m );

finally add your one new form to all page listings via the cforms PHP call (see online Help page) -> into your page template

…just 5 steps away…

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Jim

7:48 pm July 14, 2008

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Thanks, will changing those lines effect my current forms? (I have about a dozen forms that just get emailed to me).

-J

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Oliver

Munich, Germany

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7:52 pm July 14, 2008

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the short answer is no, it should be 100% compliant.

the long answer is:

the above is off top of my head, so:
make backups of all changed files (also for the future!)
test the heck out of all your forms deployed just for piece of mind

note: your email address setting of the other forms do not change, your current forms remain the way they are.

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Cynthea

11:17 pm November 20, 2008

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After implementing this customization, it was working for a while. But now, for some reason, every time I save a post in Wordpress, I get this error …

Warning: implode() [function.implode]: Invalid arguments passed in /home/cyntheal/public_html/authorsnow/wp-content/plugins/cforms/lib_aux.php on line 170

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/cyntheal/public_html/authorsnow/wp-content/plugins/cforms/lib_aux.php:170) in /home/cyntheal/public_html/authorsnow/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 770

I double-checked the code in lib_aux.php and it looks right to me. I'm at a loss as to what I did wrong. And I would really like to have cforms working on my website. Any ideas?

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Oliver

Munich, Germany

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7:39 am November 21, 2008

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Is this error only coming up when saving posts?

Did your PHP version change?

Do your new posts not have a "dir_listing_email" custom field?

Instead of this:

$dle = implode($dle,', ');

You may try this:

if ( is_array($dle) ) $dle = implode(', ', $dle);

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Michael

9:54 pm December 22, 2008

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I am attempting to follow your instructions for this mod but apparently you have changed the code since writing this. I'm actually stumped at step one which is to replace the code you specified… The only code that is close to what you specified is this

$replyto = preg_replace( array('/;|#|\\|/'), array(','), stripslashes($cformsSettings['form'.$no]['cforms'.$no.'_email']) );

So that leads me to believe that whatever code I'm supposed to replace that with has also changed. Could you please update your response so that I don't screw something up? thanks.

Michael

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Oliver

Munich, Germany

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10:35 pm December 22, 2008

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if you have v9.4 you don't need this hack anymore.

in v9.4 you can use my-functions.php' logic routine (uncomment function first!) to on-the-fly change the adminTo address.

you only need to add your code (that retrieves the proper email address) and adjust the basic example in the logic routine.

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Michael

11:34 pm December 22, 2008

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Hi again, sorry to be such a dunce, but what you just said made no sense to me. I'm a slow learner. But I'll tell you what… if you can explain it in a step by step fashion, I'll then make a video tutorial for you which you can then direct people to. Deal?

What i need to do is to have each of my business directory listings be able to utilize a cforms email form but by automatically grabbing the email somehow from each business listing.

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Oliver

Munich, Germany

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9:08 am December 23, 2008

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Before I elaborate, let me make sure I undestand what you're trying to do:

you have directoy listing data (incl. email addresses) stored somewhere
the listing info/data can be accessed as part of a post context (navigating to the the post/listing)
- listing data is stored seperately?
- or as part of a custom field pertaining to a post?

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Michael

4:53 pm December 23, 2008

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Oliver,

what I have is a website for wedding service providers. Each business belongs to a category and I have categories set up for "Photographers", "Reception Halls", "Florists" and so on.

I could not really figure out the best way to approach this with WordPress since WordPress can't assign categories to Pages. So I approached it from a Post point of view with each business being a post and each post is assigned to a category. Do you think that is the best way for my project?

So each business is listed by means of a Post and each Post is assigned to the appropriate category. I am not using any sort of directory database plugin or anything of that nature. I would if one existed that did what I want, but so far I haven't found one… but that's besides the point.

So each business listing is a simple Post which includes the business name, address, phone number, linked email address and linked website address, description and photo.

I do not have any custom fields defined because as of now, I don't really understand how they work… but I'm certainly willing to learn how they work and incorporate them if necessary… and it appears from other posts in this forum, that a custom field will be necessary.

The existing website is http://www.cnyweddings.com . The existing website is static at this point but I am in the process of moving to WordPress and the new site under development is at

http://www.cnyweddings.com/site_development

Since the site is under development, I do not actually have working email and website links in place for all the buinesses yet, so the links are dead, at least most of them.

I hope this explains things clearly.

Thanks.

Michael

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Oliver

Munich, Germany

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6:14 pm December 23, 2008

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I could not really figure out the best way to approach this with WordPress since WordPress can't assign categories to Pages. So I approached it from a Post point of view with each business being a post and each post is assigned to a category. Do you think that is the best way for my project?

that's certainly one way.

So each business listing is a simple Post which includes the business name, address, phone number, linked email address and linked website address, description and photo.
I do not have any custom fields defined because as of now, I don't really understand how they work… but I'm certainly willing to learn how they work and incorporate them if necessary… and it appears from other posts in this forum, that a custom field will be necessary.

correct. beside showing the listing info inside the post (so users can actually view them you need to store them in custom fields for future access, otherwise, you'd have to parse your post content for keywords and extract e.g. the email address – way to much effort.

you need to

add all necessary custom fields to your listings (could be as few as only one: the email address) -> what is 'necessary' depends on what data you need to retrieve in the future (probably, email/name)
1. note: format of the future email is "name" <email>
please also see this thread it includes the general example on how to modify the admin email field at run time
1. this includes configuring a placeholder for your form's adminTo config field
2. editing my-functions.php (logic routine):
  adjust the example to fetch (instead of the user name of the author-page-context) your posts' custom fields (name, email) and assemble both to the format described in 1.1
return the new email address

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Michael

3:44 am December 24, 2008

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Oliver said:

I could not really figure out the best way to approach this with WordPress since WordPress can't assign categories to Pages. So I approached it from a Post point of view with each business being a post and each post is assigned to a category. Do you think that is the best way for my project?

that's certainly one way.

Do you feel there is a better way that I should consider? Because right now, I could change everything if there was a good reason to. I am more familiar with a CMS like CMSmadesimple as oppoesed to WordPress.

Thanks for the other info. I'll give it a go after Christmas and see if I can implement your example.

Michael

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Oliver

Munich, Germany

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9:47 am December 24, 2008

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It's the easiest/quickest way. I personally would completely do it outside of PHP, but that's just me and it would take 10x as long and require strong PHP and SQL skills.

Thanks for the other info. I'll give it a go after Christmas and see if I can implement your example.

Don't forget the video tutorial! ;-)

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Michael

3:37 pm December 24, 2008

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I won't forget the tutorial. I just need to get it working first and won't have time until after Christmas.

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Michael

8:18 pm December 30, 2008

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Oliver, I am really struggling with this. Not sure I am even close.

First thing I've done is add a custom field to a vendor listing (which is a post).

The custom field is Name: email Value: info@example-vendor.com

Next I went into cForms and duplicated the default "Contact Us" form and renamed it "Contact a Vendor". Then I went to "Core Form Admin / Email Options" and changed the value to "placeholder"

Next I uncommented the my-functions.php logic so that it now looks like this…

### "filename" $cformsdata = $_REQUEST
"adminTO" $cformsdata = cforms datablock
###

Is that the correct logic code to modify and did I do that correctly?

Next, I looked at the three code examples in my-functions.php and compared them to each other. Is there a typo (bug?) in there? It seems as if you have the same comment code for the first two examples…

### example: changes the name of the uploaded file in the email (adding a prefix taken form a form field)

if ( $setting == "adminTO" ){

### example: changes the name of the uploaded file in the email (adding a prefix taken form a form field)

    if ( $setting == "filename" ){
        return $cformsdata['filetype'] . $oldvalue;
    }

So that is confusing me since I'm easily confused.

Assuming that it -is- a typo, I'm guessing that I'm supposed to use and modify the first example and change the code so that it pulls the custom field value "email". But I do not know how to pull that info into the example

function my_cforms_logic($cformsdata,$oldvalue,$setting) {

### example: changes the name of the uploaded file in the email (adding a prefix taken form a form field)

if ( $setting == "adminTO" ){

       ### the below rewrite only triggers when admin email="placecholder" to avoid all forms go to the changed address
       if ( $oldvalue=='placeholder' )
           return 'test123 <my@different-email.com>';

}

I think I'm supposed to change this part but not sure how to pull in the custom field email address in to there…

if ( $oldvalue=='placeholder' )
return 'test123 <my@different-email.com>';

}

That's basically where I'm at right now. Not sure how to proceed.

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Oliver

Munich, Germany

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9:04 pm December 30, 2008

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### "filename" $cformsdata = $_REQUEST
"adminTO" $cformsdata = cforms datablock
###

the above needs to be reversed again (### are required here).

however you need to remove the /* in line 13 and move it to line 63 (after the function).

Next, I looked at the three code examples in my-functions.php and compared them to each other. Is there a typo (bug?) in there? It seems as if you have the same comment code for the first two examples…

you're right, I fixed this in v10.0 -to be released soon- (a silly copy and paste mistake).

this is how to proceed:

if ( $setting == "adminTO" ){

        if ( $oldvalue=='placeholder' ){
            $email = get_post_meta(get_the_ID(), 'email', true);
            return $email;

}

also see this link that explains in more detail on how to access post meta data.

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Michael

6:16 am December 31, 2008

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Oliver, you've been very gracious to me and my continued questions. I thank you for that. But I'm not having any luck. I think I've done what you instructed but i'ts not working so here are screenshots…

Here is my post page with the custom field..

Here is my cform

Here is my code

When I submit the form I get the "Thank you for your comment" but I do not recieve the email. cForms is working though because the default Contact Us form does send me an email when a form is submitted. But of course, that form is not using placeholder or custom fields.

Clearly I've done something wrong and i hope you wll be able to tell me what.