darnoldy

Okay… it working now! Thank you for your help and your patience!

–don

@threadi & @bcworkz –

Yeh, It is Business Directory plugin, and I had thought that I’d get more of a resonse that a copy paste from their “We don’t support” page.

On the other hand, based on learning about variable dumps from threadi, I did some bear-poking. I managed to use “get_post_meta()” to see all of the meta tags foe the post. I found:

["_wpbdp[fields][7]"]=> array(1) { [0]=> string(21) "[email protected]" } 

Which seems to be what I am looking for—I think I’m close, However, when I use:

$meta_value = get_post_meta($post_id,'_wpbdp[fields][7]'.true);

it returns “array(0) { }” instead of the string. Is there an “asString” command I should use?

It seems to me that this should be easier than it is turning out to be!

I contacted Business Directory support (who has always been pretty helpful) and they replied that they don’t give coding help, and provided a list of a few developers that I could hire to do it for me.

I also looked through their docs, and found an api call, wpbdp_get_form_field(ID) that looked promising. So I tried:

	$meta_value = wpbdp_get_form_field( 7 );
	
// Get the post details
 var_dump($meta_value);
 exit;

and got:

object(WPBDP_Form_Field)#2521 (14) { ["id":"WPBDP_Form_Field":private]=> int(7) ["type":"WPBDP_Form_Field":private]=> object(WPBDP_FieldTypes_TextField)#1286 (1) { ["name":"WPBDP_Form_Field_Type":private]=> string(9) "Textfield" } ["association":"WPBDP_Form_Field":private]=> string(4) "meta" ["shortname":"WPBDP_Form_Field":private]=> string(13) "contact_email" ["label":"WPBDP_Form_Field":private]=> string(13) "contact_email" ["description":"WPBDP_Form_Field":private]=> string(0) "" ["tag":"WPBDP_Form_Field":private]=> string(5) "email" ["weight":"WPBDP_Form_Field":private]=> int(31) ["validators":"WPBDP_Form_Field":private]=> array(1) { [0]=> string(5) "email" } ["display_flags":"WPBDP_Form_Field":private]=> array(1) { [0]=> string(10) "fieldlabel" } ["field_data":"WPBDP_Form_Field":private]=> array(3) { ["icon"]=> string(37) "dashicons|dashicons dashicons-archive" ["word_count"]=> int(0) ["supported_categories"]=> string(3) "all" } ["css_classes"]=> array(0) { } ["html_attributes"]=> array(0) { } ["validation_errors":"WPBDP_Form_Field":private]=> array(0) { } } 

Which I sorta think I understand…but it occurs to me that this function doesn’t specify which post to get the info from—is that because its designed to be used within a loop?

I also tried:

	$meta_value = $post->wpbdp_get_form_field( 7 );

That just gave a fatal error!

Any advice would be very welcome!!

@threadi —well…. that was instructive! It seems that ‘contact_email’ is not a meta field (nor are any of the other custom fields in the post)!

After some research, I tried:

	$meta_value = get_post_custom_values('contact_email', $post_id);

which returned NULL. I guess I need to go have a conversation with the support folks at the plugin I’m using to create the posts!

Thanks for your help–I’ll report back when I get this solved.

–don

@threadi —Thanks for that! I should have caught those myself (Guess my eyes are getting old).

The script can now be activated, and it sends mail. —That’s the good news.

However, it always sends the mail to the admin email address. Either I’m getting the meta value incorrectly, or there’s an error in the if statement! I’ll have to work on that.

@bcworkz — Thanks for that! while I’m testing, I am sending the mail to an address with spam filtering turned off.

George-

Thanks for the reply.
Knowing that what I want to do is possible does help; as does the themers’ guide link.

I have found the proper template to modify. Part of the issue is that I was looking for variables $theTitle while you seem to use functions the_title()

What would really be helpful is a list of the functions and what they return—maybe that’s already in your knowledgebase and I have missed it. As an example, tribe_get_start_date() returns not only the start date, but also the start time.

Thanks again for your help!

Such a silly mistake!

Thank you for your help… the script now works as expected.

Sure…
You can look at this page:
https://arnoldy.us/SWWA/events/
You will need to reduce the width of the viewport to small tablet or wide phone width to see it the collapse.

Thank you for your help.

–don