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  sottwell Reply #261, 19 years, 6 months ago

  Problem:
  Mail is sent, all values are correct. Form behaves properly if input is invalid. But instead of the "thank you" chunk being displayed, the "Could not instantiate mail function." error is displayed.
  
  eform: 1.4.3 (upgraded from 1.4.1, which was doing the same thing)
  MODx: 0.9.5 RC3 rev 2051 (upgraded to 0.9.5 final rev 2106)
  PHP: 4.4.2 CGI
  Apache (dunno which version, it’s not reporting itself)
  FreeBSD
  
  Debug output:
  

  eForm configuration:
  
  array (
    'snipPath' => '/home/xxxx/public_html/assets/snippets/',
    'vericode' => '1',
    'formid' => 'commentsForm',
    'from' => '[email protected]',
    'fromname' => 'CMS Site',
    'to' => '[email protected]',
    'cc' => '',
    'bcc' => '',
    'subject' => 'Web Enquiry',
    'ccsender' => 0,
    'sendirect' => 0,
    'mselector' => 0,
    'mobile' => '',
    'mobiletext' => '',
    'autosender' => NULL,
    'autotext' => '',
    'category' => 0,
    'keywords' => '',
    'gid' => 84,
    'noemail' => false,
    'saveform' => true,
    'tpl' => 'commentsForm',
    'report' => 'EmailForm',
    'allowhtml' => 0,
    'replyto' => 'emailaddress',
    'language' => 'english',
    'thankyou' => 'commentsSent',
    'isDebug' => '1',
    'reportAbuse' => false,
    'disclaimer' => '',
    'sendAsHtml' => false,
    'sendAsText' => false,
    'sessionVars' => false,
    'postOverides' => 0,
    'eFormOnBeforeMailSent' => '',
    'eFormOnMailSent' => '',
    'eFormOnValidate' => '',
    'eFormOnBeforeFormMerge' => '',
    'eFormOnBeforeFormParse' => '',
    'cssStyle' => '',
    'jScript' => '',
    'submitLimit' => 0,
    'protectSubmit' => 1,
    'requiredClass' => 'required',
    'invalidClass' => 'invalid',
    'version' => '1.4.3',
  )

  
  
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  sottwell Reply #262, 19 years, 6 months ago

  Interesting....
  
  Exact same setup, on the same server, with only one difference, works just fine: the one having a problem is using a temporary IP address for access since the DNS servers are still pointing to the old server. So will wait to see what happens once this new installation goes live later today.
  
  As soon as the site went live and the DNS resolved properly the mailer worked correctly. Some oddity with the temporary IP address scheme.
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  gspark Reply #263, 19 years, 6 months ago

  Is there a reason why eform is 1.4.3 but the actual snippet is 1.4.2 ?
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  staed Reply #264, 19 years, 6 months ago

  I’m having trouble with Swedish characters (åäöÅÄÖ) in the mail headers. I got them to work in the mail body by changing the charset in class.phpmailer.php, but the subject line and from field either gets cut or looks like crap.
  
  Someone care to help?
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  Nemesis666 Reply #265, 19 years, 6 months ago

  Have the same problem with german letters üöäÜÖÄß, the form fields should be html-encoded for display on the website and in the email. At least those, which have "html" set.
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  raaviraaj Reply #266, 19 years, 5 months ago

  Hi, is there an example or can someone guide me on how to use #FUNCTION
  Basically, I want to check if the supplied email (in the form) already exists in the database, and based on the return value either proceed or output a validation message.
  
  Now, where do I write my function and how do I invoke it in eform.
  
  I use eform 1.4.3 -- have eformtodb configured and it works great. I would like to only insert the supplied form data into the database if the email provided DOES NOT exist in the database.
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  pixelchutes Reply #267, 19 years, 5 months ago

  Quote from: Raavi at Apr 23, 2007, 01:16 AM

  
  Hi, is there an example or can someone guide me on how to use #FUNCTION
  Basically, I want to check if the supplied email (in the form) already exists in the database, and based on the return value either proceed or output a validation message.
  
  Now, where do I write my function and how do I invoke it in eform.
  
  I use eform 1.4.3 -- have eformtodb configured and it works great. I would like to only insert the supplied form data into the database if the email provided DOES NOT exist in the database.
  

  
  Check out this post: http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,8111.msg92591.html#msg92591
  
  Look at my preventDupes function based on DB results. It even shows which eForm function to use.
  
  Basic set up:
  
  1. Create your "preventDupes" function in a snippet. Make sure and include the snippet directly before your [[eform]] snippet call (like that of eForm2db)
  
  2. Modify your [[eform]] snippet call to run your custom

  preventDupes()

  function on eFormOnBeforeFormMerge
  
  3. Modify the example to output just an error message, or create a chunk w/ styling/placeholder (per the example)
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  Dimmy Reply #268, 19 years, 4 months ago

  I have a snippet that generates a placeholder like [+placeholder+], when I place this in the content it returns the input just fine but now I like to use this placeholder to populate the eform-form.
  
  
  Is this posible at all?
  when I make a chunk and place the placeholder in there it does not work :
  
  

  <textarea name="emailwinkelwagen" rows="2" cols="20">[+emailwinkelwagen+]</textarea>

  
  
  the [+emailwinkelwagen+] placeholder holds the content of the shopping cart made using shopX.
  
  The content needs to be mailed and I like to use Eform for this.
  
  if there are other options to populate the form mabe from the session? please let me know.
  
  
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  Soda Reply #269, 19 years, 4 months ago

  In eform 1.4.3, when you submit a form which contains error (empty required fields) the change made in the form fields are lost, but the $fields parameters in the eFormValidate function contain these changes. Must I repopulate the form (and how )with the content of $fields (or $_POST) or is it normal ?
  
  See the attached capture.
  The required field pagetitle is empty, that stop the validation of the form, but the modified field tvkeywords which was modified to "zzz" is displayed as the first display of the form: "contact,mail,form.."
  
  A wish: Could be usefull (for me ) if some parameters could be files ie: tpl,report and the event function.
  
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  TobyL Reply #270, 19 years, 4 months ago

  @Dimmy - You could use the &sessionVars parameter to insert those values (provided that you store them in the session first off course).
  As eForm does not parse the complete form 1st time around you will have to set the same placeholders in the form template. For example:
  
  

  [!eForm &sessionVars=`emailwinkelwagen` ... !]

  
  and
  

  <textarea name="emailwinkelwagen" rows="2" cols="20">[+emailwinkelwagen+]</textarea>

  
  
  

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  @Soda - This is not normal. I suspect the error is in the way the form template is constructed. Can you post the template (and the snippet call)?
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