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• Your URL: none – local install for testing
• The browser used: safari
• cforms version:8.5.2
• Your Wordpress version: 2.6

I have many posts which each describe an organization, with contact information etc.

I would like to use a cform as a contact form so that a user can send an email to that organization, without publicly revealing the contact email address.

Can I use data from the post – the title which is the name of the organization – and perhaps a custom wordpress field in the post to hold the email address – to prepopulate a contact form.

Also, assuming I can prepopulate, I can only see the tell-a-friend as a way but it will not keep the email address hidden – I cannot see how to hide this field.

Any help wold be really appreciated!
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Thank you! I have spent a good deal of time trying this but still have one error I can't handle.

Firstly, in the example yo suggest creating a custom field called "email_address" and then proceed to use dir_listing_email in the example code. Assuming I'm right, no big deal. 

That said I think there is some issue with these lines:

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

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

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

I say that because if I comment out the first two lines and add one saying:

$dle = 'bill@microsoft.com';  // well of course my email address actually

then it works just fine.

I've tried the 'get_post_meta' option for retrieving and that's no good either.

Yes, I spelled the custom key name fine…

Can you see anything? Is there a way to echo the contents of dle to see what is pulled from the custom key? I trust a simple echo won't do the trick…

Thanks for this – I had tried echo but not disabling AJAX.

Now I'm thoroughly confused. echo shows that the correct email address is being pulled from the post.

I hit submit on the form and get taken to a blanked out version of the post page which I imagine is a non-ajax place that a message might be displayed? Anyway, no complaints and it seems to work – but no email comes through. I'm assuming this could well be that I now have my machine connected wirelessly on another network and my mail server settings could well be wrong – I'll need to test this part at home tonight. However…

When I go back to AJAX mode – and I trust the email address is pulled still fine since the code I was using echo in is in lib_aux.php but I get my message again about needing to supply one recipient email address…

The only difference I see in lib_aux is in the first if / else-if construct that assigns pid where the lines:   

else if($ Ajaxpid <> '') 

   $pid = $Ajaxpid;

have me wondering if the pid can be assigned differently in Ajax mode?

Thanks for all your help – it really is appreciated and while frustrated – I'm learning lots which makes it worth the effort!

Thank you!

No net connection now but this time it's an SMTP error so it sounds like success.

So very alone.

Oliver said:

Yes you can. See this thread (it's the same requirement).

dead link. can someone give me the tutorial ?