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Hello,
I am new to Chronoforms but so far have had good success setting up a form in J1.5 capturing some basic data such as:
Name
Email Address
Selection Option
Date

(and also seem to be successful using validation)

I would like to include BOTH values Selected Option and Date in the Subject Line of the email message that is consequently emailed.

How do I do this?

Many thanks
symbic

Hi symbic,

Try this code in the 'Onsubmit before' box

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<?php
$rows[0]->emailsubject = "Some text".$_POST['first_fieldname']." "$_POST['second_fieldname']." some more text";
?>

GreyHead,

The code you supplied in your previous post looks like it is exactly what I need, however I can't seem to get it working. Is this something that you have used with Chronoforms, and if so is there anything else I need to do to get it working... i.e. placing a variable in the special fields subject field...

Thank you for your help,
Sam

Is there anyway to debug this? I've tried entering my values that are being posted, but my emails are sending with blank subjects... :(

Hi jcksnps4,

Turn debug on and you'll see the values that are being returned by the form.

Add one more line to the code:

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<?php
$rows[0]->emailsubject =
  "Some text".$_POST['first_fieldname']."
  ".$_POST['second_fieldname']." some more text";
if ($debug) {
  echo "subject; ";print_r($rows[0]->emailsubject);echo "<br />";
}
?>

This should print out the value of the subject as long as debug is turned on.

Bob

Hi GreyHead,
I've tried the code you have suggested but can't seem to get it to work correctly.

The email is sent and shows ONE of the fields in the subject line but I also end up seeing a Parse error on the resulting thankyou page

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in
/home/account/public_html/subdomain/components
/com_chronocontact/chronocontact.php(425)
: eval()'d code on line 2
E-mail: 'Yes' custom
Email sent

(If the Subject Field under the Special Fields tab is left blank then it seems to default to the Email Subject shown under the General Tab, regardless of using the code above)

Thanks
Denise

Hi Denise,

Sorry there was a dot '.' missing before the second $_POST - I've put it back in my pevious post.

Bob

Hi greyHead,

hmmm... still getting a Parse error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ':' in
/home/domain/public_html/subdomain/components/
com_chronocontact/chronocontact.php(425)
: eval()'d code on line 4
E-mail: 'Yes' custom
Email sent
E-mail message

and it shows default Email Subject

?? again if the Subject Field under the Special Fields tab is left blank then it seems to default to the Email Subject shown under the General Tab, regardless of using the code suggested.

Any further ideas??

many thanks

Hi symbic,

Not my day, there was a second typo in the next line a : instead of a ; - also fixed now.

Bob

Yea! Thanks very much!:cheer:

All working nicely now with both fields displayed in subject line along with set text

(Note I left Subject Field blank under the Special Fields tab)

Chronoforms has ended up providing very nice solution for what i needed.

thanks again
Denise

Great! Thanks!

I was actually able to use this help to put five fields plus additional text in my subject line (a name and a date even though they were broken up into individual parts).

Thank you so much for this fix!