Mandrill hook for MODx FormIt

I made a mandrill hook for FormIt today, I thought i'd post it here just so others can find it in future.

It's a snap to use, you really just add a mandrill api key in addition to the usual formit parameters. There's proper instructions over at github.

You can find the formit-mandrill-hook repo on github!

A big thumbs up for sharing!

Can't believe nobody responded to your post.

It worked right out of the box. I'm going to play around with some api features not covered sofar and let you know how it turns out.

Cheers,

pepebe

Sweet! I'll definitely give it a try.

Thanks for the good work.

Getting the following error although safe_mode is off:

Other than the email not being sent, FormIt seems to be working just fine.

I've simply set up the MODX email settings to use Mandrill's SMTP API, and then just use the normal email hook

I know this is an old thread but it would be awesome to be able to turn this into a proper extra that could be installed from the Package Manager. If you're not interested in doing that, I am sure I or someone else could make it happen. I also think the files should be stored in /core/components/sendMandrill/mandrill/ rather than assets. This could be even created by using PackMan which is an Extra for building simple MODX Packages. Great work nonetheless. Thanks for this.

FYI, there is also the MandrillX class, though you'd still need a custom FormIt postHook to run it. Notify has been using it for some time and it's very reliable. http://modx.com/extras/package/mandrillx

The next step would be a way to use Mandrill's REST api from MODX instead of using SMTP. Many cPanel hosts do not allow remote SMTP for some reason.

Quote from: smashingred at Apr 13, 2015, 05:17 PM

The next step would be a way to use Mandrill's REST api from MODX instead of using SMTP. Many cPanel hosts do not allow remote SMTP for some reason.

The MandrillX class does that, but it would be nice if were built into MODX so you could have that option instead of SMTP just by setting a System Setting.

It's hard to say how difficult it would be. It might just be a matter of rewriting modPhpMailer to respond to a new System Setting in addition to the SMTP System Setting.

I'll have a look at creating a package for this in the next few days.. when I originally made it I wasn't sure if anyone else would find it useful so I didn't bother with a package.

Also thanks for the tip re the proper path..