echo wpbb_job_application_form in custom template form doesn’t work

Does the job which is being applied for have an application email in the WordPress backend?

It does. I can see the email field has been populated, so not sure what’s stopping the data sending back to broadbean…

The first thing to to check is whether your site is sending emails successfully as the plugin uses the wp_mail() function to send the application to Broadbean.

If that is working then you need to debug the application processing.

The processing of the application form is fired on the wp hook in WordPress. The function responsible (wpbb_process_application_form()) checks whether any application form data is posted using.

// if the form has been posted.
if ( ! isset( $_POST['wpbb_application_data'] ) ) {
	return;
}

If that check passes along with the nonce check the processing occurs. This includes creating an application post (temporarily) and then sending notifications before the application is removed from WordPress.

Therefore to debug this I would take a look at the wpbb_process_application_form () function inside:

/inc/applications/application-processing.php

The first thing to do would be to check that function is processing the application.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 1 month ago by Mark Wilkinson.

I think I have found the issue.

Looking at appication-form.php, it has a <form> tag wrapper, as expected. However, when I inspect my HTML – this tag is missing around the form. Am I using the wrong function to display the form?

The application form, using the wpbb_job_application_form() function is rendered using this view file:

https://github.com/highrisedigital/wpbroadbean/blob/934bfdadb5c4b82280c4870a67524eaf64811ebf/views/application-form.php

However I am not seeing that markup in your example in your modal?

Also noticed that if you are using wpbb_job_application_form() then this already echo’s so you shouldn’t have to.

Yeah, so my template is just using the following line:

echo wpbb_job_application_form($_GET['post_id']);

So I’m not sure why the markup isn’t displaying…

Can’t see this making a difference but you shouldn’t need the echo part. Try this:

wpbb_job_application_form($_GET['post_id']);

Have removed the echo and still no form tag…

Interestingly, though, it does appear to add the first part of that template wrapper, as it adds the div with the wpbb-application-form__wrapper class.

I assume it is Javascript that is handling the modal and therefore I wonder if that is interfering?

Perhaps try adding the code to a single template file for a specific job post ID to check.

I’ve stripped out the template into a single page. Whilst the form now does post – it does nothing once posted:

https://bramwith.candutu.com/job-form?testId=1060

Current code for this page is

global $post;  

$post = get_post( $_GET['testId']);

setup_postdata( $post );

echo 'POST ID = '. $post->ID;  
 
wpbb_job_application_form($post->ID);

wp_reset_postdata();

I’m forcing the post ID as I notice that the global post id is used to proccess

Does the form work when used as the plugin is intended appended to the content of the job post?

It does, but I need away to be able to quick apply for jobs on the job overview page. Therfore need the forms working here.

All I can suggest is to start debugging the processing code with some wp_die() functions and var_dump variables to see where the processing is failing.

inc/application-form.php, line 30 –

The $wpbb_messages returns nothing.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 1 month ago by georgemccann7.