Use Template Variable in my own php file

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Zuriel Reply #1, 15 years, 1 month ago

So I have my own php mailer that I am using (mail.php) and in my file I have

$email = '[email protected]';

How can i pull an email from a template variable? or setup a way so that Me, or a client, can set the email address used in $email inside the MODX manager rather than having to edit the mail.php file?

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whistlemaker Reply #2, 15 years, 1 month ago

Create a TV - lets say you call it 'emailaddress'
Put your mail.php into a snippet - lets say you call it 'mailer'

Now call your mailer from the page with:

[[mailer? &email=`[[*emailaddress]]`]]

$email in the mailer snippet will be whatever you enter in the emailaddress TV for the page

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Zuriel Reply #3, 15 years, 1 month ago

unfortunetally the mail.php file is called from a javascript file.

I do alot of Javascript checks on my forms and animate them (colors and fading and cool effects) and then i do a AJAX Request for mail.php

now if i could figure out how to put mail.php into a resource that would be cool but i already tried to add a new mime type, php, add the file into a new resource, and then call it from the alias .php but it doesn't work...

i was hoping of a way to have my php file literally pull the variable from modx... like a get object or something

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Lucas Reply #4, 15 years, 1 month ago

You could either:

- put your mail code in a snippet, then place that snippet call in a new modx resource; or
- include the following code in your mail.php file to get access to MODx 'from outside'

<?php
define('MODX_CORE_PATH', 'full/path/to/your/modx/core/');
define('MODX_CONFIG_KEY', 'config');
require_once MODX_CORE_PATH . 'model/modx/modx.class.php';
$modx = new modX();
$modx->initialize('web');

I guess you'll know how to pass the page id to your script; from there you can use something like this to get the TV value:

$id = $_POST['id'];
$resource = $modx->getObject('modResource',$id);
$email = $resource->getTVValue('email_tv');

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Zuriel Reply #5, 15 years, 1 month ago

if i make a file called echo.php and i run it with this code

<?php

define('MODX_CORE_PATH', '/home/mysite/public_html/chsla/core/');
define('MODX_CONFIG_KEY', 'config');
require_once MODX_CORE_PATH . 'model/modx/modx.class.php';
$modx = new modX();
$modx->initialize('web');

$id = $_POST['id'];
$resource = $modx->getObject('modResource',$id);
$email = $resource->getTVValue('email_tv');

echo $email;

?>

why won't that work

this must just be above me. i am not using POST and GET for my form. I am doing an ajax request like so..

			$.post("/mail.php", {action: "sendMail", name: frmName , mail: frmMail,  phone: frmPhone, company: frmCompany, message: frmMessage},
			function(data){
				if (data.success == '1'){
					success();
					//If the mail was sent show the "success" message
					return false;
				
				}else{

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Lucas Reply #6, 15 years, 1 month ago

This... $.post() ...is a POST

I was just giving an example, but now I've seen your ajax call you could just do this:

$.post("/mail.php", {action: "sendMail", email: [[*email_tv]], ... etc},

That way you can send the email address without needing to look it up from the receiving script.

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Zuriel Reply #7, 15 years, 1 month ago

ack my message got deleted.

here is the javascript file
http://pastie.org/2445077

and here is the mail.php file
http://pastie.org/2445069

perhaps that helps? maybe someone can make some sense of it. id like to replace $email in my mail.php file with a user defined template variable that they can edit on the contact page... so that way a client doesn't have to go in and modify a php file just to set a new email. anyone have any ideas?

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BobRay Reply #8, 15 years, 1 month ago

It looks like you just need the ID of the current resource so the code below will work. How about putting a hidden input field in your form with [[*id]] as the value?

Then this code should work:

$id = $_POST['id'];
$resource = $modx->getObject('modResource',$id);
$email = $resource->getTVValue('email_tv');
 
echo $email;

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Lucas Reply #9, 15 years, 1 month ago

Or just post the TV value itself and avoid having to load modx in your mailer script.

Use a hidden field in your form:

<input type="hidden" name="email" value="[[*email_tv]]" id="contact_email_tv" >

In your js, change this section as follows:

// FORM SUBMISSION
  $('.button.btSend.css3button').click(function(){
  //Get name field value
      var frmName = $('#contact_name').val();
      
      //Get e-mail field value
      var frmMail = $('#contact_email').val();
 
      //Get phone field value
      var frmPhone = $('#contact_phone').val();
      
      //Get company field value
      var frmCompany = $('#contact_company').val();
      
      //Get textarea message
      var frmMessage = $('#contact_message').val();

      // ADDED: Get hidden email_tv field value
      var frmEmail = $('#contact_email_tv').val();
      
      //Send data using ajax
      $.post("/mail.php", {action: "sendMail", name: frmName , mail: frmMail,  phone: frmPhone, company: frmCompany, message: frmMessage, email: frmEmail},  // <--- added frmEmail

Then in your php file you can the email tv value with:

$email = $_POST['email'];

I might have missed something in your js file but pretty sure that should do it...

Note: my suggestion in this post would work fine if your js was embedded instead of in an external file (hadn't realised that was the case)

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Zuriel Reply #10, 15 years, 1 month ago

ok thanks, got that to work. didn't even try the external method, just embedded it. I appreciate it.

Bob your code didn't show up as what i should put as the value of the id or etc? the solution below bobs worked but I am always interested in what he has to say because I respect your opinion on things Modx

love your getMyCompoenent, etc..

what I would really LOVE is the ability to use FormIt and do some jquery animations and effects over it and the responses.. i guess after this project I will revisit formit and see if i can do something cosmetic first before the submit.. im sure its probably possible. [ed. note: zurie last edited this post 15 years, 1 month ago.]