Hello all, I have installed the MailExtension, but I am not sure how to use it. 🤔 I have created a new empty page and created the block "Custom Snippet" there. There I copied the example code from the readme and changed it a bit: <@ Automad/Mail { to: @{me@domain.tld}, error: 'My Error Message', success: 'My Success Message' } @> : : <button class="uk-button" type="submit">Send</button> </form> if(window.hljsLoader && !document.currentScript.parentNode.hasAttribute('data-s9e-livepreview-onupdate')) { window.hljsLoader.highlightBlocks(document.currentScript.parentNode); } I wonder if the @{} has to be removed from the To address? What do I do with the @{ url } field in the form tag? Can / must it remain as it is? And if it has to be changed, to what? When I call up the page via browser, a simple form appears. So far so good. If I fill in the fields and press Send, the page is reloaded and the fields are cleared, but nothing else happens. Neither an error / success message nor a mail arrives. Hmmm 🤔 Can anyone give me a tip here? That would be great!

How to use the MailExtension?

gorbin

Hello all,

I have installed the MailExtension, but I am not sure how to use it. 🤔

I have created a new empty page and created the block "Custom Snippet" there. There I copied the example code from the readme and changed it a bit:

<@ Automad/Mail { 
            to: @{me@domain.tld},
            error: 'My Error Message',
            success: 'My Success Message'
} @>
: 
: 
    <button class="uk-button" type="submit">Send</button>    
</form>

I wonder if the @{} has to be removed from the To address?

What do I do with the @{ url } field in the form tag? Can / must it remain as it is? And if it has to be changed, to what?

When I call up the page via browser, a simple form appears. So far so good. If I fill in the fields and press Send, the page is reloaded and the fields are cleared, but nothing else happens. Neither an error / success message nor a mail arrives. Hmmm 🤔

Can anyone give me a tip here? That would be great!

mad

gorbin Hi, that is not how it should be used. The extension is to be used by developers of themes and templates. Instead of the snippet block, you can use directly the mail block.

gorbin

mad Oh, thank you so much! That's good to know. Then I'm on the "wood path" there 😉 The normal contact form (mail block) works fine. But I wanted to include SPAM protection and I was thinking about extending the form. I need a few more fields.

Actually, it's no problem to quickly write a new contact.php with the form fields and a new mail.php with the processing, but that's probably a bit oldschool. 😉

But I'm not quite sure yet how to proceed here. I have already read a lot in the documentation. There are Generic extension and Pipe Functions - each with Local Packages or Composer Packages. But I haven't really understood the differences yet and don't really know which way makes the most sense for such a new contact form.

Do you have any tips?

mad

gorbin Great! The generic extensions are stand-alone functions that can generate output. Pipe functions are use as filters for variables. I guess the best option for you would be to simply fork the mail extension and add your fields there.