Enable alternate form action and admin emails

You can read the consequences in the note on alternative form action. No, you will not receive any emails with this enabled.

A way to have cformsII processing and another data sink is using the cforms2_after_processing_action and program it yourself.

I responded to your first note by saying that I did read the note which didn’t say anything specific about email notification and implied that if Ajax was implemented that this wasn’t an issue

If you enable an alternative form action you will loose any cforms application logic (spam security, field validation, DB tracking etc.) in non-ajax mode! This setting is really only for developers that require additional capabilities around forwarding of form data and will turn cforms into a front-end only, a “form builder” so to speak.

I’m not sure what you mean by cforms2_after_processing_action. I changed my form to uncheck Alternate form action and checked the following

Enable alternative success page (redirect)

But that didn’t work because the form data wasn’t passed – at least in the same way it was under the other option. I need this feature since I have to add a 3% processing charge to an amount to be sent to Paypal.

Where is the option about cforms2_after_processing_action and is form data passed in the ame way.

Thanks

You can find cforms2_after_processing_action in lib_validate.php. It is a WordPress action. You can find information on using actions in your own PHP code in the official WordPress plugin documentation.

You should check the data structure of the $trackf variable that is the action’s parameter. In your PHP code you would use that data to create an HTTP request to the site that you want the data to be sent to (PayPal?). If the HTTP request fails you should throw an exception that is then handled by cformsII.

And no, the note does not imply that if you use AJAX, this is a safe option to use. I will remove “in non-ajax mode” in the next version to clarify this.