How to get FULLNAME in Activation Email body?

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SyberKnight Reply #1, 7 years, 11 months ago

hi all, notably Bob & Susan ;-)

i've spent a long time searching & haven't found the answer to this; so if i missed it, please feel free to link me to it.

i'm trying to figure out how to get BOTH the Activation Emails...
Register & ForgotPassword
...to accept/fill-in the users "fullname" (which IS required during initial Registration, so everyone has one), in the emails body greeting.

it currently DOES use successfully... [[+username]]
but i can't get it to work with... [[+fullname]], or [[+register.fullname]], or [[+login.fullname]], or [[+profile.fullname]], or [[+user.fullname]], etc etc. all it does is show that actual code(?).

to be honest, i've got this whole thing up'n'running after a long period of learnings'n'research, and i STILL don't quite understand where "placeholders" come from, how they're figured out or created. but that's not necessarily what i'm needing from this post ;-)

i would like to try & avoid modifying the original/core/snippets/plugins/code, but i'm not opposed to creating a new snippet if that's what's needed.

REF: using ModX Revo 2.4.3 & Login 1.9.2

This question has been answered by multiple community members. See the first response.

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SyberKnight Reply #2, 7 years, 11 months ago

(bump)

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BobRay Reply #3, 7 years, 11 months ago

As you probably noticed, the Login code is a little challenging to follow. wink

The problem is that the user doesn't exist when the page is processed, so the code only has the entered username to work with.

The only thing I can think of to try (and I don't have much confidence in it) is a pre- or post- hook that does this:

$usernameField = $this->modx->getOption('usernameField', $scriptProperties, 'username');
$username = $hook->getValue($usernameField);
$user = $modx->getObject('modUser', array('username' => $username));

if ($user) {
    $userId = $user->get('id');
    $profile = $modx->getObject('modUserProfile', array('internalKey' => $userId));
    if ($profile) {
        $fullName = $profile->get('fullname');
        $modx->setPlaceholder('fullname', $fullName);
    }
}
return true;

There may be an easier way, but I can't think of one.

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SyberKnight Reply #4, 7 years, 10 months ago

hi Bob,

sorry for the delay'ed reply. well, it's not a dealbreaker to not have their name in the email; would've just been a nice-to-have. and since that code is over my head, more moreso, since you don't have much confidence in it, i think i'll just let it be.

thanks again for your time & expertise!

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BobRay Reply #5, 7 years, 10 months ago

It might work. wink

If you want to try it, just paste that code into a plugin called FullName and add one of these to the Login and ForgotPassword tags (but not both).

&postHooks=`FullName`
&preHooks=`FullName`

Put this in the email Tpl chunk:

[[+fullname]]

I think &preHooks is a better bet. If you already have pre- or post-hooks, add FullName ahead of them followed by a comma. Let me know if it works and I'll do a blog post on it.

BTW, the Subscribe extra wraps the Register process for you, and IIRC, it sets a fullname placeholder for you.

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9thwave Reply #6, 7 years, 7 months ago

Hi Bob,
Just to let you know that i tried your code above and it works with the preHook.
Thanks very much;-)

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BobRay Reply #7, 7 years, 7 months ago

I'm glad it worked for you. Thanks for the report.

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