Snippet in emailTpl not processed / How to handle dynamically added formfields?

I have the following situation:

1) A complex form in a chunk with the FormIt Snippet call in it too, so I can handle the whole form with a [[!$form_chunk]]

2) When filling out the form, the user can add (or not) a desired amount of additional fields, which are inserted in the DOM via jQuery

3) The form gets submitted via AJAX (jQuery .load() function...) to the page the form is on --> URL for the load function gathered with window.location / $(location).attr(’href’), and after returning the whole DOM of the page I extract only the form part I need and insert it back into the page

4) When the form is emailed, the successMessage is loaded

This works as expected, form is successfully submitted via ajax and formit mails to my address


The problem I have is in the emailTpl property. When I leave it empty, all the fields (the later added/dynamic ones too) are listed in the sent mail, but when I add the template chunk, only the those fields are sent for which I have a placeholder inside the emailTpl chunk...this is the expected behaviour but it gives me some headache because I couldn’t find a solution to output the dynamically generated fields as I would like to...I tried it with a Snippet inside the emailTpl chunk, but as it seems, Snippets don’t get parsed in there, so I just received the set placeholders and the Snippet shown in form of [[!Snippetname]] inside the email...

The idea was, that if I could access the $fields array inside the emailChunk, I could maybe handle the dynamic fields somehow because they are there (as the example with no tpl Chunk shows)...but I’m really getting nowhere so I thought I’ll ask here =).


Any ideas how to solve this problem?

Thanks for any answers!

Is there Really no way to execute a snippet inside the emailTpl? It would be ok if I could use the [[If]] snippet^^...


or a way to remove non-existing placeholders btw. replace them with nothing??

Quote from: lluuuk at Jun 10, 2011, 07:50 PM

Is there Really no way to execute a snippet inside the emailTpl?

Same question from me to.