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I need to set field data in Submit-before and the data should be included in the mail sent. The field data should not be visible in the email form. I have tried the following, but the fields in the email are empty.

This should be very basic, but i just cant make it work. Other postings indicate that this is the method.

This is what i have tried:

Form html (part of):

 <input type="hidden" name="dateandtime" value="" />

Submit-before code (part of):

<?php
   JRequest::setVar('dateandtime',date('r'));
?>

Email template (part of):

Date and time (CET): {dateandtime} 

The email is set to plain text in the email settings.

The email contains the text "Date and time (CET): " But the field is empty!

Michael

Hi Michael,

It's one of the little quirks of ChronoForms that the OnSubmit before code is evaluated after the Email html - so this techniques doesn't work - though it's fine for data being saved in the database!

You can force a substitution by doing a string replace on $html_message and using a place marker like ##dateandtime## if you need to.

In this case it's easier to turn off the html editor for the email template and put

<?php echo "Date and time (CET):".date('r'); ?>

into the template directly.

Bob

Hi Bob,

Do you really mean $html_message ? I can't find this variable anywhere!

/Michael

Hi Michael,

Sorry, that was the old version. Not so easy in the new one. When OnSubmit before is called the Email templates are in an object array $emails. The template is in $emails[i]->template - where 'i' is most likely 0 if you only have one template.

Bob

Hi Michael,

try to remove the input field from your form HTML and see if it works ?

Regards
Max

Hi Max, Bob!

This method with str_replace works fine!


Field in template (text only email):

The date and time is: ##dateandtime##

Code in Submit-before (part of):

<?php
  $emails[0]->template = str_replace('##dateandtime##',date('r'),$emails[0]->template);
?>

Thanx for your support guys. Keep up the good work!

Michael 😀