I have a form, which at the moment is a simple HTML based one, that doesn't do anything.
What I'm looking to do though, is to be able to send an email once the form has been submitted and also save the data to the database.
The problem comes, with the email sending. In the form, there is a drop down menu. The menu items are items in my suppliers model/module, which have a name and email address.
So, when I select Supplier A, the form passes validation, it needs to send Supplier A an email and save the details (this shouldn't be too hard).
I'm just not sure how I'd get the email address.
Would I need to pass some kind of parameter to a custom sendEmail() method?
All help appreciated.
Thanks
UPDATE:
Ok, so before I do the email part, I'd like to store the data in the table, named test drive.
I've created the module in the admin and a form to submit data from on the frontend end.
But I cannot seem to get the data to insert.
All help is welcome
Thanks
For sending email see this Mage_Contacts_IndexController::postAction() action or
Mage_Sales_Model_Order::sendNewOrderEmail()
If You created module with model, you can get instance of that model, insert data and then save it or You can create ResourceModel and then execute SQL.
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I've been trying to populate a Podio app using Email to App.
However, the problem is that the app only takes 3 blocks of data from an email submission: the subject, the sender, and the body. This would be sufficient if I had two fields of data to populate. However, I have 10 fields of data to populate in the app.
How can I send an email with the 10 fields of data and populate an app entry?
This article from 2010 is the only thing Podio says about this feature and yet it is not working for me. I have tried sending an email with
name:my name
location: my location
car: my car
...
in the body, and the Podio app simply places the entirety of the email in each field.
You cannot populate multiple fields with Email to App feature in Podio. To handle. Use Podio API for advanced use cases.
Populating multiple fields to Podio still works as descibed in https://help.podio.com/hc/en-us/articles/201019648-Email-to-app.
Email to item configuration:
Example email text:
Resulted item created:
If you are just looking to populate the data.
You could put the 10 items into the email body and send them as formatted text into Podio.
If you have dynamic data, you could achieve this by e.g. iterating through an array.
Other than that you have to use the API.
The method in the post you link to is correct and works.
In the email the format:
fieldname: content
.. gets mapped with "content" being put into the item's field with the name "fieldname". Use the field mapping user interface if you want to choose which fieldname:-label from the email maps to which field in the Podio item.
This question regards the structure of applications when using laravel.
I have a view for making a sale/purchase from a company. This single view contains a client search, product list, service list and a staff list. Each of the items listed above has their own model. In the view, i would say search for a client which will call a function within the controller and populate a list. Same for the products and services etc etc.
What confuses me is that for the client search i would click a button that would fire to a url like /clients/search/search string, which would return the array of clients to display on the page. This function seems as if it would be appropriate within the client controller. I am unsure as to how i would be able to maintain the information from the client search and other parts of the sale to then submit it all together under one single controller (let's call it InvoiceController).
Can controllers share the functions from other controller? Do i simply store the information in a session variable? Do i simply put all relative functions to this sale under the InvoiceController?
Thanks for any help!
I would do a search for clients against the client controller, then when you select the client add this (client_id) to your invoice form. then save this with other invoice info via the invoice controller
After much deliberation, it appeared that AJAX was the simplest answer. In this case i used Angular JS and had that running a controller to fetch each segment of the Invoice, then use the main InvoiceController in Laravel to fire the final update.
I have a form generated with the sonata admin bundle. I want to enable a live search tip for my user on an input field. The proposition should come from a category table in the DB.
For example, if I have a field called company, when a user writes "a", I should suggest all companies whose name contains "a".
Use JQuery Autocomplete. On server side create controller action that will return suggestions through AJAX.
See example - http://jqueryui.com/autocomplete/#remote-jsonp
Im using custom profile plugin found at http://library.logicsistemi.it/images/joomla/plg_user_testprofile.zip
I have created several fields, both, optional and required and they all work. But there is a tiny problem.
When I enter some value in that custom fields and submit the form it can happen that some fields dont pass validation (which is good). However values entered are cleared and I must fill all the fields from the beggining.
Demo: http://goo.gl/eH1G2
Enter some (not all) data under the 'legend' named User Registration
Enter some (not all) data under the 'legend' named Company
Informations
Press Register button
Error message will pop in. -
Data entered in the User Registration will be saved
Data entered in the Company Informations (which are custom fields)
will not be saved.
If all required fields are entered, form will submit data to database
(which is ok).
I want that data in the Company Informations are saved, so users dont have to type in all over again.
The problem in your demo is on the template you are using.
For some reason it gives Javascript errors. These errors blocks the Javascript client side validation and your form is submitted with invalid data.
If you want only server side validation you can modify the onContentPrepareData function in your plugin by loading posted information from the user state. To do this you have to permeform a different action when user_id is not set under "Merge the profile data." comment.
I think next week I will write a new tutorial on http://library.logicsistemi.it to explain this. For now try to fix your Javascript code.
Regards
I have report UI with a small form at top where the user looks up a person by name using an Auto-Suggest textbox, and I set a hidden ID field when they select one. They then enter a start and end date, and hit submit to load a report below. The report data is fetched using the Person's ID, and the date range as a Backbone route. I can also show the person's name in the report header since I have it from the Auto-Suggest lookup.
The problem is, if someone bookmarks a report (a nice feature to have), I'd like to repopulate the form (which shows the person's name) and the report header.
So, currently I have one route ('id/startdate/to/enddate') that sometimes is triggered by an already populated form model, and sometimes is triggered by a bookmark/refresh and needs to repopulate the form model from route data and server-side data.
How would you model this? I was going to have a model bound to the form:
{ id: 234, name: 'Bill', startDate: '1/1/2011', endDate: '1/1/2012' }
But I am struggling with this idea of sometimes needing to fetch the name and populate the form, and sometimes already having a populated form (and name). Feels like there should be a better design for my Backbone views/models/routes.
You can populate your Model from the router by triggering a message with the name, startDate etc parameters that the Model will listen to.
The same thing can be done in the View that sets the data on the Model. So, regardless of where you get the information from (View, Router), your Model would correctly hold the state.
Then your Form View could listen on changes to its Model, re-rendering itself with pre-filled information on Model change.
Hope it helps.