Attach PDF to form submit notification

Hi @mlchrt

I hope you are doing well.

This feature is still under development and its release will depend on the current roadmap. Meanwhile, an alternative is to add a must-use plugin to your site’s wp-content/mu-plugins folder like this?https://wpmudev.com/docs/using-wordpress/installing-wordpress-plugins/#installing-mu-plugins, then add the following code to the plugin’s php?file:

<?php
add_filter( 'forminator_custom_form_mail_admin_headers', 'wpmudev_change_forminator_header_attachment', 10, 5 );
function wpmudev_change_forminator_header_attachment( $headers, $custom_form, $data, $entry, $cls ) {
	if ( $custom_form->id != 6) { //Please change the form ID
		return $headers;
	}

	$headers[] = 'X-FORMINAT-ATTCH : true';

	return $headers;
}

add_filter('wp_mail', 'wpmudev_attach_pdf_forminator', 10, 1);
function wpmudev_attach_pdf_forminator( $args ) {
	if ( is_array( $args['headers'] ) ) {
		foreach( $args['headers'] as $key => $value ) {
			if ( strpos( $value, 'X-FORMINAT-ATTCH' ) !== false ) {
$args['attachments'][] = WP_CONTENT_DIR.'path_of_your_pdf_file';
			}
		}
	}
	return $args;
}

Note: In the code please change 6 to your form’s ID. Also, please change path_of_your_pdf_file to your PDF file’s path.

We recommend to test this on the dev/staging version first before putting it on the live site.

Hope this info is helpful.

Kind regards

Luis

Great, thanks Luis! A really good starting point. Is there anyway to limit this is a certain submit notification or are now all e-mail notifications in the mentioned form attached with a pdf? If I’ve got two replys. One for the admin and one for the submitter, how can I just attach the pdf to the submitter not the admin notification?

• This reply was modified 1 year, 6 months ago by mlchrt.

Hi @mlchrt

It will affect all notifications from given form. If you only want to apply it to one of those notifications, you can do so with a bit of a “trick”:

1. First, make sure that the notification to which you want to attach PDF has some unique word or phrase included in subject; by “unique” I mean that it’s “fixed” (so it’s always there – not value of the filed but just some string) and it is used only in this particular notification’s subject.

2. Second replace this part of previously shared code

function wpmudev_attach_pdf_forminator( $args ) {
	if ( is_array( $args['headers'] ) ) {
		foreach( $args['headers'] as $key => $value ) {
			if ( strpos( $value, 'X-FORMINAT-ATTCH' ) !== false ) {
$args['attachments'][] = WP_CONTENT_DIR.'path_of_your_pdf_file';
			}
		}
	}
	return $args;
}

with this

function wpmudev_attach_pdf_forminator( $args ) {
	
	if ( strpos( $args['subject'], 'SOMETHING_UNIQUE' ) !== false ) {
	
		if ( is_array( $args['headers'] ) ) {
			foreach( $args['headers'] as $key => $value ) {
				if ( strpos( $value, 'X-FORMINAT-ATTCH' ) !== false ) {
					$args['attachments'][] = WP_CONTENT_DIR.'path_of_your_pdf_file';
				}
			}
		}
		
	}
	
	return $args;
}

3. And finally, in this code replace SOMETHING_UNIQUE with that word or phrase from notification subject.

The way it works is that before attaching PDF it checks if defined word/phrase exists in notification subject – if not, it skips attaching PDF; if yes, it attaches it.

Best regards,
Adam

Hello @mlchrt ,

We haven’t heard from you for some time now, so it looks like you don’t have more questions for us.

Feel free to re-open this ticket if needed.

Kind regards
Kasia