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Custom email template


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karibe

Community Member, 56 Posts

29 October 2007 at 12:47pm

Hello

I'm looking for solution how to add custom email template on user defined form ( contact form ) submits .

When form is emailed it looks like it using Page.ss which is bad for me:)
How to add customized template for emailed submitted user form?

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Sean

Forum Moderator, 922 Posts

29 October 2007 at 3:07pm

There's 2 solutions:

1. You make a contact form in code, rather than use the 'contact form' in the CMS - this way you get full control over making it. See the 3rd tutorial for more information on this.

2. Subclass UserDefinedForm, and hack the code so it chooses a different template. (Not the best solution).

Cheers,
Sean

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blacky

3 Posts

30 October 2007 at 10:30pm

can u help to place dropdown controls from middle of the page ... help me please

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karibe

Community Member, 56 Posts

30 October 2007 at 11:10pm

OK, I used http://doc.silverstripe.com/doku.php?id=email_template end works almost perfect but there are three problems:

1. How to add translated validation messages? Page is in Polish and have to translate validation messages
2. How to add proper encoding to email? I have bad characters when email is submitted
3. How to add confirmation message that the email has been send

function doContactForm ( $data, $form )
{
$submission = new ContactFormSubmission();
$form->saveInto($submission);
$submission->write();
// send email
$email = new Email_Template();
$email->ss_template = "ContactFormEmail";
$email->populateTemplate($submission);
$email->subject = $submission->val( "Subject" );
$email->from = $submission->val("Email");
$email->to = "info@somedomain.pl";
$email->send();
// ---
Director::redirectBack();
}

Template:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>

<head>
</head>
<body>

<p class="body">

<p>Wiadomość wysłana przez $Name z formularza kontaktowego:</p>

$Content
</p>

</body>
</html>

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karibe

Community Member, 56 Posts

30 October 2007 at 11:48pm

Ok now I need only two answers:)

3. How to add confirmation message that the email has been send?

I had to add SubmittedContactArticlePage.ss and works perfect:)

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Sean

Forum Moderator, 922 Posts

31 October 2007 at 9:43am

Just before Director::redirectBack() you can call:

$form->sessionMessage('Thanks, you've been signed up', 'good');

Cheers,
Sean

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karibe

Community Member, 56 Posts

1 November 2007 at 12:09am

Great

Are there some messages like 'good' for replacing validation messages?