Recipients in BCC

Hi @thankssforhelp

I hope you’re well today!

The BCC addresses is a different configuration option in notification settings and it needs to be changed via a different filter hook.

This code should help:

add_filter( 'forminator_custom_form_mail_admin_bcc_addresses', 'wpmudev_set_bcc_multiple_mail_recipients', 10, 2 );
function wpmudev_set_bcc_multiple_mail_recipients( $bcc_mails, $custom_form ) {
	
	error_log( print_r( $custom_form, true ) );
	
	if ( '8489' !== $custom_form->id ) {
		return $bcc_mails;
	}
	
	if ( $bcc_mails == '{multiple-mails}' {
		
		$my_post = get_post(8644);
		$mails = str_replace( '"', '', str_replace( ']', '', str_replace( '[' , '', $my_post->post_content)));
		$mails = array_filter( explode( ",", $mails ), function($value) {
			return ( $value !== NULL && $value !== FALSE && $value !=='' );
		});
		if( $mails ){
			$bcc_mails = $mails;
		}
		
	}
	
	
	return $bcc_mails;
	
	
}

Best regards,
Adam

Hi Adam,

thank you for the quick reply.

I tried the above php snippet, however when I refresh the website an error occurs:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘;’ in …. on line 13″

and another question: where would I have to add further form-id’s when using the snippet for several forms?

Thanks a lot in advance and kind regards

Hi @thankssforhelp

Thanks for response and sorry for the error – that’s my oversight.

First, please remove this line as it’s not needed (it was just me checking something):

error_log( print_r( $custom_form, true ) );

Second, to fix the parse error, replace this line

if ( $bcc_mails == '{multiple-mails}' {

with this

if ( $bcc_mails == '{multiple-mails}' ) {

Finally, to use for multiple forms you just need to change this

if ( '8489' !== $custom_form->id ) {

with this

$my_forms = array( '8498', '123', '567' ); // put forms IDs here
if ( ! in_array( $custom_form->id, $my_forms ) ) {

Best regards,
Adam

Hi Adam @wpmudev-support8,

thank you for your response. Following the above instructions I got the following code:

<?php
add_filter( 'forminator_custom_form_mail_admin_bcc_addresses', 'wpmudev_set_bcc_multiple_mail_recipients', 10, 2 );
function wpmudev_set_bcc_multiple_mail_recipients( $bcc_mails, $custom_form ) {
	
	$my_forms = array( '8489', '9393' ); // put forms IDs here
if ( ! in_array( $custom_form->id, $my_forms ) ) {
		return $bcc_mails;
	}
	
	if ( $bcc_mails == '{multiple-mails}' ) {
		
		$my_post = get_post(8644);
		$mails = str_replace( '"', '', str_replace( ']', '', str_replace( '[' , '', $my_post->post_content)));
		$mails = array_filter( explode( ",", $mails ), function($value) {
			return ( $value !== NULL && $value !== FALSE && $value !=='' );
		});
		if( $mails ){
			$bcc_mails = $mails;
		}
		
	}
	
	
	return $bcc_mails;
	
	
}

Unfortunately, this code somehow does not work. No email is sent when the form is filled out and submitted.

With the code I sent at the beginning everything works, only the mails are not sent as BCC, but “normally.”

Possibly I am doing something wrong here. I have tried and tested it many times during the day, but have not come to any result.

Kind regards

• This reply was modified 2 years, 5 months ago by thankssforhelp.

Hi @thankssforhelp

You’re right. I tested the code in general but using only error_log entries as testing tool and apparently that was not enough.

It requires another slight modification, mostly because apparently the BCC e-mails are additionally filtered in plugin code (and there’s no way around it) so using the “multiple-mails” placeholder in BCC address field in notification is not correctly validated and doesn’t trigger e-mails.

The solution is to modify it a bit. The code would be as follows:

add_filter( 'forminator_custom_form_mail_admin_bcc_addresses', 'wpmudev_set_bcc_multiple_mail_recipients', 10, 2 );
function wpmudev_set_bcc_multiple_mail_recipients( $bcc_mails, $custom_form ) {
	
	$my_forms = array( '8489', '9393' ); // put forms IDs here
	if ( ! in_array( $custom_form->id, $my_forms ) ) {
		
		return $bcc_mails;
	}
	
	if ( in_array( '[email protected]', $bcc_mails ) ) {
	
			
		$my_post = get_post(8644);
		$mails = str_replace( '"', '', str_replace( ']', '', str_replace( '[' , '', $my_post->post_content)));
		$mails = array_filter( explode( ",", $mails ), function($value) {
			return ( $value !== NULL && $value !== FALSE && $value !=='' );
		});
		
				
		if( $mails ) {
			$bcc_mails = $mails;
		}
		
		
	}
	
	
	return $bcc_mails;
	
	
}

and in your notification settings in “Advanced” section in “BCC Emails” field put this fake e-mail address instead

[email protected]

I’ve tested it again – this time fully, really testing form submissions with additional BCC addresses, and it worked fine.

Note: I did put e-mails manually in my code during testing and I’m assuming that the part that reads e-mails from your post works fine anyway (and creates an array with e-mails).

This modification is not required for your original code that you used before – that one worked and will work the same. It’s only the version for BCC addresses.

Best regards,
Adam

Hi Adam @wpmudev-support8,

so many thanks, it now works smoothly and perfectly – this was an important step for me.

I hope that many others will also learn to appreciate the value of your work. ??

Kind regards