Reply to sender with Formz Builder / FormIt in Modx.

Hi I hope someone can please help.

I'm using Formz or Formz Builder which uses FormIt. I've made 2 or 3 different contact forms for different areas of my site.

It works well but when I receive an enquiry I can't just click 'Reply' as it uses my own email as the Sender or From address.

I wondered if anyone could please help it use the Email from the contact form, the person sending the email?

I tried adding the following to my formTpl :



which didn't work. I also tried:



but that didn't work either, plus if the above had worked it wouldn't of been ideal as field14 may be an email on one form, but on a different form it has a different ID...

I just need FormIt to look for an email field and have it reply there. Or be able to add the label as just 'Email' so it matches on all forms...

Thank you very much for any help.

If you don't specify &emailFrom in your FormIt call, it will automatically look for a form field named "email" and use that address, failing that it will use the emailsender system setting.

Form email field should look something like:

Hi thanks for the reply but on checking the page source my email box on the form is like this:



On another page the form has the email entry as this:



How can I set up FormIt to use either of these or edit these fields to work instead?

Thank you again for any help with this.

If possible, build you form manually without formz as usual.
Then its possible to set the emailFrom within a formit-hook or by using the getReqParam-snippet or fastField-Post-tag to set the property by the posted email-value.

Hi thanks. I've already set up lots of Forms with Formz Builder unfortunately! I wondered I've checked with their GitHub and there seems to be a bug open for this so I've added my request for help there also.

Formz interface does accept hooks.

You can add additional hooks using comma-separator to call on your FormIt form. e.g. redirect,spam

Could this be used to call a hook for changing the email name to become 'email' somehow?

Thanks again.

If Formz uses the default FormIt hooks: Try &emailReplyTo=`[[+email]]` if you have an input with the name attribute email in your form where the web user could insert the email address.

Hi thanks. I've put:



In the 'Hooks' box but emails are still coming through as the default sender and clicking Reply from the email just uses the same default sender as before... I also tried adding the above in the 'Properties' box too (Additional properties that a FormIt form can take, you can add multiple properties using the double pipe || e.g.: &fiarTpl) - but again this hasn't worked either... Is there something I'm missing?

Can you not manually edit the form so it contains more standard FormIt labeling?

if you know the email-field is 'field14'

you can try



you need to have getReqParam installed, of course

Maybe I have misunderstood your needs:

&emailReplyTo changes the Reply-To header of the email sent with the email hook. If you click on 'reply to' in your mail application, you could answer to that address. The From header is not changed, since on a lot of hosts you can't send emails by php mail function with a from address that does not belong to the installation.