Change From email

Hi, I guess I find it equally incomprehensible how someone with a fair bit of experience with this kind of thing fails to understand my clearly articulated instructions. ??

Anyway, to send notification emails from wordpress@url, use the bbp_subscription_email_from filter like this (requires PHP 5.3+):

add_filter( 'bbp_subscription_email_from', function( $from ) {
	return 'wordpress@' . preg_replace( '#^www\.#', '', strtolower( $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] ) );
}, 1, 10 );

• This reply was modified 8 years, 5 months ago by Markus Echterhoff.

Interesting – I actually tried exactly that function, except that I made the email simply ‘[email protected]’ instead of using all the preg replace stuff (I don’t want to use my server name – I want to use my site URL). I’ll try again.

Okay, I tried again: I keep getting [email protected]. I am running PHP 5.3. Is it necessary to do the preg replace?

Update: tried the preg replace (your exact function, but with last two numbers swapped) – same result.

• This reply was modified 8 years, 5 months ago by ljmac.

I’ve just checked the code. The filter expects $from to be an array containing name and email. I grant you that this isn’t clear from the instructions and I’ll make that a bit more user-friendly. The following should work:

add_filter( 'bbp_subscription_email_from', function( $from ) {
	return ['', '[email protected]'];
}, 1, 10 );

Unfortunately that one completely crashed my site: “PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘[‘”

Oh right, the array short notation was introduced with PHP 5.4. Here you go:

add_filter( 'bbp_subscription_email_from', function( $from ) {
	return array( '', '[email protected]' );
}, 1, 10 );

Meh, it’s an associative array and, as you’ve noticed, the number of arguments and priority were swapped.

add_filter( 'bbp_subscription_email_from', function( $from ) {
	return array( 'name' => '', 'address' => '[email protected]' );
}, 10, 1 );

I’ve just tested this on a local installation, it worked for me. I should really make the usage more clear though or accept a string in addition to the array.

I was just about to say that I’d already tried the array() option and the sender came up blank.

Anyway, the last function did indeed work for me too – thanks for your every quick response and persistence in resolving the issue. ??

You’re welcome. Also, I’ve just pushed an update. The $from parameter can now be a string or array, so that the more intuitive string based solution is working too. Plus, I’ve added a couple of comments to the documentation, pointing out where array parameters are expected, so that there will be less confusion on this point in the future.

Great! Very fast work. ??