Private Messaging K2 author Joomla user

Thanks for all the years of Chronoforms. After many years I have one question.

I have k2 items that are assigned by author or user. I would like to have the contact form be able to private message the author. The form will also do the basic email notification as well.

What I would like is for the author to be able to reply to the sender either by logging in or by replying via their email. The thing is that the email reply would show the reply email as reply@myserver.net but the actual email gets sent to the author and vice versa.

There should be no email contact information in the email where the parties are able to converse but have to reply through myserver.net.

I hope I have explained it well. I just need to get a kickstart on how I would go about implementing this.

Thanks so much in advance!

Hi tuyeni,

I think that you can do what you need using the Dynamic Reply To Email and Dynamic Reply To Name boxes in the email action. You would need to add the sender's name and email to these by adding them to the $form->data array e.g.

<?php
$form->data['sender_name'] = 'XXX';
$form->data['sender_email'] = 'YYY';
?>

I'm not sure how you get the values of XXX and YYY - can you look them up from K2 or Joomla!?

Bob