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Yannick T.
Yannick T.

Reputation: 83

Custom error message within wpcf7_before_send_mail

I’m using Contact Form 7 and its wpcf7_before_send_mail action to interact with an API before sending the email. If the API returns an error, I want to be able to grab that error, display it as an error and prevent the form from being submitted.

I can’t seem to find what I’m looking for anywhere online. The best I can do is use the mail_sent_ok message string and display the error within it (which is obviously not the solution).

Basically, the ultimate solution would be to force the form submission to fail.

Anyone else in the same boat?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 5236

Answers (5)

Maulik patel
Maulik patel

Reputation: 2436

add_action('wpcf7_before_send_mail', 'your_function', 10, 3);
function your_function($form, &$abort, $object){
  $error = 1;
  /*if($error != 0) {
      $abort = true;
      $msgs = $form->prop('messages');
      $msgs['mail_sent_ng'] = "An error happened"; //<- your custom error message
      $form->set_properties(array('messages' => $msgs));
  }*/
  //echo "<pre>";
  //print_r($_SERVER);
  $current_site_ip_country_code = $_SERVER['HTTP_CF_IPCOUNTRY'];
  $blocked_countries = array( 'CA', 'UK', 'RU', 'NL', 'CN', 'AC', 'AD', 'AE', 'AF', 'AT', 'BD', 'BR', 'CF', 'CG', 'DK', 'ES','IN' );

    if (  in_array( $current_site_ip_country_code, $blocked_countries ) ) {
       // echo "here";
    //    die();
        $abort = true;
      $msgs = $form->prop('messages');
      $msgs['mail_sent_ng'] = "Not Allowed"; //<- your custom error message
      $form->set_properties(array('messages' => $msgs));
    }
    
}

Upvotes: 0

user2327579
user2327579

Reputation: 499

I don't know if someone might still need this. But you can use the below to do the job.

$submission = WPCF7_Submission::get_instance();
$submission->set_response( 'the message' )

Upvotes: 1

Fil
Fil

Reputation: 1060

Based on Louise-Philippe's answer, I solved with this code, since $object parameter happends to be always null:

add_action('wpcf7_before_send_mail', 'your_function', 10, 3);
function your_function($form, &$abort, $object){
  $error = 1;
  if($error != 0) {
      $abort = true;
      $msgs = $form->prop('messages');
      $msgs['mail_sent_ng'] = "An error happened"; //<- your custom error message
      $form->set_properties(array('messages' => $msgs));
  }
}

Note: it's not mail_sent_ok but mail_sent_ng so you can have red border as predefined error messages.

Upvotes: 1

Louis-Philippe
Louis-Philippe

Reputation: 101

I'm not sure if it was possible at the time you asked your question but the wpcf7_before_send_mail hook has an abort flag that your just have to set to avoid mail to be sent.

for instance in pseudo PHP

add_action('wpcf7_before_send_mail', 'your_function', 10, 3);
function your_function($form, &$abort, $object){
  $error = 1;
  if($error != 0) {
      $abort = true;
      $object->set_response("An error happened");
  }
}

Upvotes: 4

mmm
mmm

Reputation: 1153

you can do a custom validation with this filter : 

add_filter("wpcf7_validate", function ($result, $tags) {

    $valid = FALSE; // here you can do your API call to calculate the validation

    if (!$valid) {

        $result->offsetSet(
              "reason"
            , ["your-name" => "error message for this field"]
        );

    }


    return $result;

}, 10, 2);

your-name must be the name of a existing field of this form.

Upvotes: 0

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