I've created a campus employee directory using custom fields and would very much like to put a simple contact form in the template that will populate the TO email addy based on the content of the email_value field. It would essentially be a hidden field.
This would allow me to add a simple form to the template file that would display on each employee and allow our visitors to contact the appropriate faculty/staff member directly from their directory listing.
Possible?
Hey Shelley,
What you can do is create a custom page template that only displays the contact form if the email_value field has a value. You would need to display the form using the function call. So if email_value exists then display the form.
You can override the notification email TO field using a hook. You can read how another user (Jan Egbert) has accomplished this here:
http://forum.gravityhelp.com/topic/sending-form-to-author-of-post
In his example he is routing the notification to the author of the post.
Carl,
In respect to that very thread in which Jan replied, I need a little guidance on where I should be placing the filters. I've tried putting them in the theme functions but no dice.
Suggestions?
PHP should go in your themes functions.php file, if the code is placed properly in your function.php file, it should work. You may need to double check the code to make sure the syntax is correct and that it appears within a php code block.
Thanks Carl,
One last question. outside of continuing to troubleshoot email problems on my server, I'm not sure the author email is populating the field. It may be because I'm not specifying the proper parameter via the advanced settings in the form for that field. Using Jan's first code snippet, which parameter should I be using?
Thanks again for all the help
Hey Shelley, hit me up via the Contact Us form with details on what you want to do and we can see what the time/effort would be to accomplish what you want to do. Thanks!
Jan Egbert
Member
This should work if you change the 2 in gform_notification_email_2 to the id of the form you added to your template. You can find the ID in your WordPress backend in the form list. Also if the meta key for the custom field containing the emailaddress is different, you would have to change that. In this example I used the meta key of email_value.
add_filter( 'gform_notification_email_2', 'route_notification', 10, 2 );
function route_notification($email_to, $entry){
global $post;
$email_to = get_post_meta($post->ID, "email_value", true);
return $email_to;
}Jan, I wanted to let you know that I've partially implemented this, but got pulled away and haven't had a chance to go back and finish. I'll let you know how it goes as soon as I get it done. I just wanted to say thanks, because it LOOKS like it's going to work fine.
Thanks!
