https://www.machform.com/forums/ MachForm Community Forums Topic: Customizing email en Wed, 06 May 2026 02:14:06 +0000 https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/customizing-email#post-1318 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:23:12 +0000 yuniar 1318@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>New version will be released by the end of this month.</p> <p>I'm glad to announce some fact regarding the new version:</p> <p>- Yes, you will be able to completely customize the email (subject, sender, content) from the admin panel. All form fields are available as {element_X} variable. So you can put it anywhere on your email.</p> <p>- It will only post answered questions. Empty answers will be discarded.<br /> - Checkboxes will be grouped. So the question will be displayed too.</p> <p>Hope you like it :-) </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/customizing-email#post-1316 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:14:05 +0000 elderban 1316@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>I would like to be able to customize the output as well.</p> <p>I noticed the current version will post every anwer even if they didn't answer it, especially if it's a "checkbox" question. If they don't answer a question, the answer shouldn't be included (looks a little confusing).</p> <p>Additionally, I noticed that if the question is a checkbox question that it will only show the answers, not the questions.</p> <p>Any word when the new version will be available? </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/customizing-email#post-1140 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:17:32 +0000 sub 1140@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Oh yeah, an absolute musthave! I really cant get it to work in php </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/customizing-email#post-939 Tue, 04 Mar 2008 23:51:09 +0000 MatthewGrdinic 939@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>I'd also throw in here and say this would be very nice to see! </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/customizing-email#post-896 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:36:21 +0000 yuniar 896@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Definitely, this is one of the most requested feature. I'm working on it. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/customizing-email#post-892 Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:58:57 +0000 tariqali 892@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Thanks for the reply. I will try to do the hack but I would rather avoid doing so since I am no expert with PHP.</p> <p>It would be great to add this in your next release as it will make handling emails much easier.</p> <p>Thank you. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/customizing-email#post-889 Tue, 26 Feb 2008 06:42:22 +0000 yuniar 889@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>To fully customize the email, you will need to modify <strong>includes/helper-functions.php</strong> file.<br /> Around line 421 - 471 you will see all the inner code to prepare the email.</p> <p>Basically you can use <strong>$table_data['xxxx']</strong> variable to access all your form data.</p> <p><strong>xxxx</strong> is your form field name (right click on your form and view the HTML source to find it)</p> <p>So let's take an example of this form:<br /> <a href="http://www.appnitro.com/demo/view.php?id=4" rel="nofollow">http://www.appnitro.com/demo/view.php?id=4</a></p> <p>If you would like the Email field (element_2) to be the sender of your notification email, then you can insert this code:</p> <pre><code>if($form_id == 4){ $mail-&gt;From = $table_data[&#39;element_2&#39;]; }</code></pre> <p><code></code><br /> Put that code above into line 466, right above this line:</p> <p><code>$mail-&gt;Body = $email_body;</code><br /> <code></code><br /> It's pretty much a hack for now. I'm currently working on easier option so that you could use an easy template and variable to customize the whole email.</p> <p>Regarding the email/database switch option, thanks, I'll consider this as more people seem to need it.</p> <p>Let me know if you need further help. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/customizing-email#post-884 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:33:33 +0000 tariqali 884@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Hello,</p> <p>Is there away to customize the email that is sent when someone submit a form? Right now all I see is tags for {form_name} and that is it. I would like to be able to use some of the form fields in the email subject, email from, etc. That way I can just hit the reply button in my email and send back a reply to the sender instead of looking for the person email. Is this something I can do?</p> <p>Also, it would be nice if we can choose if we want the form submissions to be entered in the database or just send out an email.</p> <p>Thanks! </p>