mini-plugins qs

  • hi nate

    REPLACE CONTENT i stumbled across a mini plug ‘replace content when form submitted’ – by replace, does it mean clear? its purpose is to clear the form to prevent second and duplicate submissions? if so great, we get that quite a lot. I also noticed another that prevents re submission – do they do different things or is it a different approach to the same job?

    AUTO ACCEPT also reading through the recent threads i noticed another to automatically accept bookings which i can make use of during the winter months. i wasn’t clear what its state of play was looking at the comments. can you please confirm whether it changes the status to confirmed, and whether the confirmed email is triggered (as opposed the email booking request received).

    made me wonder what other goodies i might be missing out on so i had a trawl….

    MAX BOOKINGS/CAPACITY Is the only difference that 1 is the number of individual bookings and 1 is the number of guests? Also, these go to reject when the limit is reached. I know my clients would pay a fee to have this function where it differed in switching to unconfirmed when the limit was reached. So if i understand your developer info correctly I am allowed to amend/extend the code? Sounds quite a simple adjustment.

    DON’T REQUIRE EMAIL Similar to above, if i can figure a copy and paste from one of your admin overrides, it is ok for me to amend this so that a logged in administrator can submit the form without email?

    General Q – do i have to keep these (I’ll be up to 7) as separate plugins, or can i combine them into one text so 1 plug in?

    These will be very useful, as are the ones i have already, but i don’t know why you put them out piecemeal instead of rolling them all up into a suite of advanced functions as another paid add-on. you’d get more money and spend a lot less time in this forum for sure ??

    Merry Christmas

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  • Hi @gibbsyns3,

    The snippets that I provide are not very widely tested, and so you use them at your own risk. I generally recommend that you test thoroughly when using them, because many of them are just snippets because they’ll only work with certain configurations or might have odd side-effects in some cases. That said, many of them have been in use for years without any complaints.

    REPLACE CONTENT i stumbled across a mini plug ‘replace content when form submitted’ – by replace, does it mean clear?

    When the booking form is submitted and the success page is loaded, you can override all content on the booking page with what appears here. So, for example, if you wanted to include a message above the booking form, but didn’t want that message to appear when the form is submitted, this would do that.

    its purpose is to clear the form to prevent second and duplicate submissions?

    No, it doesn’t change anything immediately when the submit button is clicked, and coming back to the page will show the booking form again.

    i wasn’t clear what its state of play was looking at the comments. can you please confirm whether it changes the status to confirmed, and whether the confirmed email is triggered (as opposed the email booking request received).

    I think a lot of people use it. It will set the status to confirmed immediately and I THINK that is then sends the confirmed email instead of the booking request email. But it might not, so you should test it and update whichever email it sends.

    MAX BOOKINGS/CAPACITY Is the only difference that 1 is the number of individual bookings and 1 is the number of guests?

    Yes.

    So if i understand your developer info correctly I am allowed to amend/extend the code?

    Yes, it’s all GPL which doesn’t restrict your usage in any way.

    DON’T REQUIRE EMAIL Similar to above, if i can figure a copy and paste from one of your admin overrides, it is ok for me to amend this so that a logged in administrator can submit the form without email?

    Yes, but I’m not responsible for you breaking anything. ??

    General Q – do i have to keep these (I’ll be up to 7) as separate plugins, or can i combine them into one text so 1 plug in?

    It’s up to you. I like to isolate modifications but whatever’s easiest for you.

    i don’t know why you put them out piecemeal instead of rolling them all up into a suite of advanced functions as another paid add-on.

    Some of them have edge-case issues, or can cause confusion about how they work, or otherwise don’t rise to the level of ease-of-use I strive for in my plugins. Above all, I don’t want responsibility for them. They are an extra, sometimes just a demonstration of how to go about a customization, rather than a product or service I offer as part of themeofthecrop.com. YMMV ??

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