Customizing result mail template

arnaudgautron
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3 years 6 months ago - 3 years 6 months ago #7093 by arnaudgautron

Replied by arnaudgautron on topic Customizing result mail template

Hi,

here is my report :-)

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1. Editing result mail with TinyMCE
It works fine. Many restrictions though. As usual in HTML emails, you have to use <table> tags to define the layout properly. The CSS styles must be inline, but it's ok, it's usual with HTML emails.

The main restriction to me is that the email produced by Visforms gives you no access to '<head></head' and '<body></body>' tags of the HTML email. In order to give them classes, I can't use Tiny MCE so I tried another way...

2. Overriding php file
I found that the result mail was defined by a Php file called default.php in 'components/com_visforms/lib/mail/adapter/'. I overrided it this way:
- introducing a var $header='<head><style>insert CSS here</style></head>'; in function result();
- around line 77, I changed the following lines
if (isset($emailsettings)) {
$this->resultmailsettings = $header . '<body>' . $emailsettings . '</body>';
}
- i tested it and it works!

3. IT IS NOT A PROPER JOOMLA OVERRIDE, I know that. Using this method, I will loose my override when upgrading visForms (probably).
So, here are my questions:
- is it possible to add this functionnality to further versions of visForms?
- will upgrade still work in the future if I choose to lock the modified file online (with FileZilla).

Thanks for your answer and your work.

Regards,
Arnaud

Last edit: 3 years 6 months ago by arnaudgautron.

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3 years 6 months ago #7095 by Administrator AV

Replied by Administrator AV on topic Customizing result mail template

Hi Arnaud,

thank you very much for reporting and sharing your results!
I can see that this is akward.
Sorry for that.

I can understand that having the same look and feel in all emails from your website is desirable.
So being able to design to the mails is a feature request which I will support.
Sadly I cannot just add your changes to the Visforms core, because of the fact, that you have to put your custom inline style into the head tag.
I cannot add such custom code to Visforms.

The update save approach to your problem would be to write your own visforms plugin, which implements the onVisformsEmailPrepare($context, $mail, $form) function.
There you can access the $mail->Body and modify it (wrap it the HTML code).

Regards,
Aicha

I recommend you the new and up-to-date documentation for Joomla 4:
docs.joomla-5.visforms.vi-solutions.de/en/docs/
Most of this also applies retrospectively to Joomla 3.
Please only ask 1 question per topic :-)

Ich empfehle Dir die neue und aktuelle Dokumentation für Joomla 4:
docs.joomla-5.visforms.vi-solutions.de/docs/
Das meiste gilt rückwirkend auch für Joomla 3.
Bitte immer nur 1 Frage pro Thema stellen :-)

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3 years 6 months ago #7097 by arnaudgautron

Replied by arnaudgautron on topic Customizing result mail template

Hi Aicha,

I've created a custom visforms plugin, following the official Joomla documentation and your advice and... it works!
If you're interested in it, I can send you (when its fully ok and tested here) my very first Joomla custom plugin :-)

This is pretty cool (I'm initially a webdesigner, not a coder).

Thank you, I can now add custom CSS to any visForms email, this is great news!

Regards,
Arnaud

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1 year 5 months ago #8569 by Shaman

Replied by Shaman on topic Customizing result mail template

wrote:
Hi Aicha,

I've created a custom visforms plugin, following the official Joomla documentation and your advice and... it works!
If you're interested in it, I can send you (when its fully ok and tested here) my very first Joomla custom plugin
This is pretty cool (I'm initially a webdesigner, not a coder).

Thank you, I can now add custom CSS to any visForms email, this is great news!

Regards,
Arnaud

Good morning Arnaud,

I'm very interested in your solution!

Could you send it to me please? (

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Kind regards,
Claude

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