Use submission ID to pick email address

Hi!

If every form should have a specific sent_to, why not use a hidden field with this value?

Anyway, you can receive form in the second param:

/**
 * @param $data             Array 'field => data'
 * @param $contact_form     ContactForm obj from 'wpcf7_mail_sent' action
 */
apply_filters( 'ctz_get_data_from_contact_form', $data, $contact_form );

Hi Mário,

Thanks for your response and the complexity is caused by the user wanting to alternate between two different email addresses, where each address gets every second email.

It looks like I’m going to need to install Flamingo, which will give me access to an auto-incrementing submission ID. I can use that along with the “wpcf7_before_send_mail” hook to check if the ID is even or odd. Then the even numbers can be sent to one email and the odd numbers can be sent to the other email.

It would look something like this…

add_action( 'wpcf7_before_send_mail', 'wpcf7_change_recipient' );
function wpcf7_change_recipient($contact_form){
	$submission = WPCF7_Submission::get_instance();

	$recipient = "[email protected]" //set email address

	if ($mail[_serial_number] % 2 == 0) {
	$recipient = "[email protected]"  //change email address if ID is even
	}

	if($recipient) {
		$mail = $contact_form->prop( 'mail' );
		$mail['recipient'] = $recipient;
		$contact_form->set_properties(array('mail'=>$mail));
	}
}

If there’s a better way to do this, please let me know.

user wanting to alternate between two different email addresses

You mean each submission should go to other mail? To1, To2, To1, To2… ?

In your place I would try using the Options API. And I don’t like to save the mail prop everytime.

Maybe using wpcf7_mail_components filter?

<?php

add_action( 'wpcf7_mail_components', 'example_wpcf7_mail_components', 10, 2 );
function example_wpcf7_mail_components( $components, $contact_form ) {
    if ( $contact_form->get_something() !== 'check-something' ) {
        return $components;
    }

    $sending = get_option( 'example_form_serial', 0 );
    $mail = ($sending % 2) ? '[email protected]' : '[email protected]';
    
    // I'm not sure what is "$components['recipient']" so check before
    $components['recipient'] = $mail;
    update_option( 'example_form_serial', $sending++ );
	
    return $components;
}

P.S.: Marking as “not a support question” because it’s not related to my plugin.

• This reply was modified 3 months, 3 weeks ago by Mário Valney.

Hi Mario,

Thanks again for your help and I’m sorry that this is taking up your time without getting the benefit of getting a new customer.

I’ll try creating a new option which will be called by the get_option() and incremented by the updated_option().

I can also use the form title to make sure it’s the correct one as you included in your code…

$contact_form->get_something() !== 'check-something'
$contact_form->title !== 'The Correct Form'

Thanks again,
– Donal

No problem! I have no customers… everything is opensource haha

Amazing you got it. Let me know if you need some help.