Hi there,

I have a custom email form that i am building and i am having some hassles. I make use of CheckboxSetField for the visitor to select a couple of options. My problem is that when the email template form tries to process the data i get an error message:
Uncaught Exception: Object->__call(): the method 'fortemplate' does not exist on 'ArrayData'

I am guessing that because the $DiveHolidays object is an array and not a string, the template does not like it.

See code below

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Email form (mysite/code/EnquireForm.php)
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<?php
class EnquireForm extends Page {
}

class EnquireForm_Controller extends Page_Controller {

public static $allowed_actions = array (
'ContactForm'
);

public function init() {
parent::init();
}

function ContactForm() {

// Dive Holidays //
$holidays = array(
'Red Sea North' => 'Red Sea North',
'Red Sea South' => 'Red Sea South'
);

// Create fields
$fields = new FieldList(
new TextField('Name', 'Your name and surname*'),
new TextField('Tel', 'Your contact phone number*'),
new EmailField('Email', 'Your email address*'),
new TextareaField('Comments','Your query/comments*'),
new CheckboxSetField( 'DiveHolidays', 'Dive Holidays', $holidays)
);

// Create action
$actions = new FieldList(
new FormAction('SendContactForm', 'Submit')
);

// Create Validators
$validator = new RequiredFields('Name', 'Email', 'Comments');
return new Form($this, 'ContactForm', $fields, $actions, $validator);
}

function SendContactForm($data, $form) {

$From = 'test@test.com';
$To = 'client@client.com';
$Subject = 'Website Feedback';
$email = new Email($From, $To, $Subject);
//set template
$email->setTemplate('ContactEmail');
//populate template
$email->populateTemplate($data);
//send mail
$email->send();
//return to submitted message
$form->sessionMessage('We will be in touch','good');
Controller::curr()->redirectBack();
}

}

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Email template (ContactEmail.ss)
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<h1> Your website has generated the following feedback: </h1>

<p>Name: $Name </p>
<p>Contact number: $Tel </p>
<p>Email:$Email </p>
<p>Holidays:$DiveHolidays </p>
<p>Comments:$Comments </p>

Hello,

Firstly in your .php I'd suggest removing the spaces from the array IDs, I couldn't get that working:

...
function ContactForm() { 
       
         // Dive Holidays // 
         $holidays = array(    
         'RedSeaNorth' => 'Red Sea North', 
         'RedSeaSouth' => 'Red Sea South' 
         );    
...

In your template, ContactEmail.ss, you can display the list of selected items in a CheckboxSetField like this (e.g. using an <ul>):

<ul>
<% control DiveHolidays %>  <!-- title of CheckboxSetField -->
	<% if RedSeaNorth %><li>Red Sea North</li><% end_if %>
	<% if RedSeaSouth %><li>Red Sea South</li><% end_if %>
<% end_control %> 
</ul>

It is a bit of a cludge but it works for me, does anyone else know a better way?

Stu

Hi,

I managed to find a better way. By adding the following, you implode the array and make it a string that you can use in your template:

// Implode checkbox values
if(isset($data['DiveHolidays'])) {$DiveHolidays= implode(',', $data['DiveHolidays']);} else {$DiveHolidays=' ';}

//populate template
$email->populateTemplate($data);
$email->populateTemplate(array('DiveHolidays'=> $DiveHolidays));

Then all you have to do in the .ss template is call
$DiveHolidays