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FORM_BLOCK_SENDER_EMAIL

Permalink January 21, 2010 at 3:55 AM

Hey all,

I'm trying to get the forms block to use the user's email in the From field, and I have read that using FORM_BLOCK_SENDER_EMAIL in /config/site.php should help with this.

I'm just lost as to how to actually enable it. Basically i have

define('FORM_BLOCK_SENDER_EMAIL ','');

in my site.php, but this isn't working.

Any help would be appreciated, I know its probably something simple.

Cheers.

pvs replied on Jan 21, 2010 at 4:00 am Permalink Reply

Have you tried this:

define('FORM_BLOCK_SENDER_EMAIL ','youremail@here.com');

I am not familiar of this constant but I think you set it up like that, where did you find this constant mentioned?
Thanks

chunksmurray replied on Jan 21, 2010 at 4:03 am Permalink Reply

Thanks for the reply.

I found it mentioned here:http://www.concrete5.org/community/forums/customizing_c5/forms_emai...

I was hoping to get the actual email of the person submitting the form as the from email. I could be totally wrong with my understanding of what this constant does also!

pvs replied on Jan 21, 2010 at 4:07 am Permalink Reply

i think is for the identity of the website, like the from the website email, not from the person who is sending that email.
so...

just create a dummy email called no-reply@youdomain.com
and put it in the constant

chunksmurray replied on Jan 21, 2010 at 4:13 am Permalink Reply

Yeah that makes sense actually. I guess an external form would probably end up being easier for this kind of thing.

Thanks for the help.

fastcrash replied on Dec 30, 2010 at 4:32 am Permalink Reply

yes i have this problem too, the script go to second block, i just want to put email sender to this FORM_BLOCK_SENDER_EMAIL.
suck a pain..

this how i solve this problem open:
concrete/block/form/controller.php
i change

$mh->from( $formFormEmailAddress );

$mh->from( $questionAnswerPairs[3]['answer'] );

if that array not match, try print_r

echo "<pre>";
print_r($questionAnswerPairs);
echo "</pre>";

and remember, this will seting all your from block, since i just use form for 'contact page'

SVijay replied on Dec 30, 2010 at 11:39 pm Permalink Reply

Hi Guys,

If you alter the core form block, it wont work when upgraded, so it would be better to duplicate the form block and do the necessary changes that you want to do.

Many thanks
Vijay

fastcrash replied on Dec 31, 2010 at 2:28 am Permalink Reply

that's why i said
"and remember, this will seting all your from block, since i just use form for 'contact page'"
just move it

to /block/form
from /concrete/block/form

and why the FORM_BLOCK_SENDER_EMAIL must be the admin email, not the email that i put in block form options?

firestorm9 replied on Mar 25, 2011 at 9:32 am Permalink Reply

Here's my fix for that. Add this to the config/site.php and you can intercept all of your from emails:

# special code to intercept contact us pages and set the FROM adddress properly
if (!empty($_POST)) {
    # default to admin
    $final_email = 'no-reply@<your site here.com>';
    # if we have something in Question3 (my email is question3)
    if ($_POST['Question3']) {
        $test_email = preg_replace("/[\r\n]/", '', $_POST['Question3']);
        # check to see if it's a valid email address
        if (eregi("^['_a-z0-9-]+(\.['_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,6})$", $test_email)) {
            # we passed the syntax check, let's check the dns records
            $host = ereg_replace(".*@", "", $test_email) . ".";
            if (getmxrr($host, $mxhosts) != false || gethostbyname($host) != $host ) {
                $final_email = $test_email;
            }
        }

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# special code to intercept contact us pages and set the FROM adddress properly
 
if (!empty($_POST)) {
 
    # default to admin
    $final_email = 'no-reply@<your site here.com>';
 
    # if we have something in Question3 (my email is question3)
    if ($_POST['Question3']) {
 
        $test_email = preg_replace("/[\r\n]/", '', $_POST['Question3']);
 
        # check to see if it's a valid email address
        if (eregi("^['_a-z0-9-]+(\.['_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,6})$", $test_email)) {
 
            # we passed the syntax check, let's check the dns records
            $host = ereg_replace(".*@", "", $test_email) . ".";
            if (getmxrr($host, $mxhosts) != false || gethostbyname($host) != $host ) {
                $final_email = $test_email;
            }
 
        }
 
    }
 
    # this is the override
    define('FORM_BLOCK_SENDER_EMAIL', $final_email);
 
}

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