Email Form Plugin

[gcopping]

I have downloaded and installed the Email Form plugin but when I go to it there is nothing there, as per this documentation, so I cannot use it:

http://fabrikar.com/forums/index.php?wiki/email-form-plugin/

Can anyone help?

Also can anyone confirm that using this plugin I can generate an email when a value is changed to a specific value?

Thanks in advance.

Gary

 

[mattsh]

Have you activated the plugin?

Conditional sending works fine http://fabrikar.com/forums/index.php?wiki/email-form-plugin/#conditional-sending

Matt

 

[gcopping]

Thanks for trying to help

Yes the plugin is enabled which is I assume what you mean?

I have also uninstalled and then re-installed to see if that made any difference but still the same.

See the screenshot enclosed as to what I get.

 

[lousyfool]

Well, instead you'll have to edit the Fabrik form in the backend and add it there.
http://fabrikar.com/forums/index.php?wiki/forms/#plugins

 

[gcopping]

Thanks for this I am looking at it now.

Can you also tell me where I would find the table name and field name of the email address for a registered user so that I can dynamically send the email to the correct email address?

 

[lousyfool]

Again, please see Wiki: http://fabrikar.com/forums/index.php?wiki/email-form-plugin/

Email to - A comma separated list of email addresses to which the form's data will be sent. Dynamically include form data by entering {tablename___elementname}. Make sure that the placeholder contains a valid email address, depending on element type and settings you may have to use {table___element_raw}. 'Friendly names' are not supported (Fabrik3.4.3).
Email to (eval) - PHP code to generate an additional set of comma separated email addresses that will be appended to those addresses.

 

[gcopping]

Yes I am looking at this but I want to dynamically send to the email address of a registered user and I don't know where to find the table and field name of this email address. I need this because, according to this documentation, "friendly names" are not supported.

 

[lousyfool]

Hard to tell without knowing the list and form, and what exactly you're doing.
Who is "a registered user"? The one filling in the form? A different one? Single/multiple?
Anything in the form containing any user data? You can take that to get the email field from the Joomla #__users table.

 

[gcopping]

Thanks for all of your help here.

I want to do the following. When an Administrator updates a specific form field of a single registered user, who will be in the #__users table, I want to send an email to this registered users email address. The form in question will contain the userid of the registered user as in the #__user table but not their email address. Does this help you to understand what I am trying to do?

 

[lousyfool]

Good, with that said, you could use PHP in the "Email to (eval)" field of the plugin to return the email address for that user ID as the result of a database query.
https://docs.joomla.org/Selecting_data_using_JDatabase#Single_Value_Result

 

[troester]

Or http://fabrikar.com/forums/index.php?wiki/php-common-tasks/#users

 

[gcopping]

OK I have set this up but the email doesn't appear on testing. How can I debug this to see what is happening? Is there a trace option I can activate?

 

[troester]

Debug with the usual php var_dump() etc. with or without exit;
Or use the jdump extension.

 

[gcopping]

Thanks but I have very little experience of PHP so not sure at all how to do this. I had already tried activating Joomla Debug and had a good luck at the results but couldn't discern anything from them.

I have enclosed 2 screenshots. One is the Email to (eval) code and the other is the Option/Condition code. Because I have hardly any PHP experience I am sure that I will have done something wrong but just can't tell what.

I have written up what I am trying to accomplish in an earlier post.

If anyone can help me at all it would be greatly appreciated.