Muliple recipients in fep_shortcode_new_message_form shortcode

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January 18, 2018 at 7:52 pm #10008

Alex Brearley
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Hi Shamim,

I would like to use the fep_shortcode_new_message_form shortcode to create a message form that will send a message to multiple recipients. I tried a comma separated list of wordpress usernames in the to field but that did not work. Is this possible?

[fep_shortcode_new_message_form to="username1,username2" subject="Test Subject"]

Thanks

January 18, 2018 at 10:52 pm #10013

Alex Brearley
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If the shortcode does not support multiple users in to, would it be possible to add the users using the fep_action_message_after_send hook i.e. insert post_meta data to add that particular message ID to other users inbox?

January 18, 2018 at 11:24 pm #10016

Shamim Hasan
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This shortcode does not support multiple recipient.
You can use fep_action_message_after_send hook to set participants to other user but may encounter some caching issue with message count. Instead You can use fep_filter_message_before_send and pass message_to_id as array of user ids. remember it already holds current recipient (may be as string), so add only other users.

January 19, 2018 at 12:26 pm #10022

Alex Brearley
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So basically, change $message_to_id to an array of user ids. Do I need to return $message_to_id from the function or is it just enough to change it? Are there 3 parameters on _before_send like there are on after_send?

I presume that once multiple participants have been added, any future replies will go to everyone i.e. if I send the first message to two people, if one of those 2 people respond, I receive it and the other person from the 2 receive it? Or, is it the case that the _before_send hook has to everytime a reply is sent, work out the to list?

January 19, 2018 at 6:02 pm #10031
Shamim Hasan
Keymaster
You can add following code in your theme’s (child theme’s if any) functions.php
```
add_filter('fep_filter_message_before_send', function( $message ){
    $your_extra_user_ids = array( 1,2,3 );

    //Only for parent message
    if( empty($message['post_parent'] ) ){
        if( ! is_array( $message['message_to_id'] ) ){
            $message['message_to_id'] = array( $message['message_to_id'] );
        }
        $message['message_to_id'] = array_merge( $message['message_to_id'], $your_extra_user_ids );
    }
    return $message;
});
```
January 20, 2018 at 11:13 pm #10051

Alex Brearley
Participant

Thank you – I will give this code snippet a go.

Out of interest, is it possible to use the fep_filter_message_before_send filter to also halt/abort creation of the message by manipulating the variables within its scope? I am wondering if I could within this filter check that something related to my app is correct and if not abort creation of the message.

January 21, 2018 at 9:38 am #10069

Shamim Hasan
Keymaster

You can return empty array, that will short circuit the function and halt/abort creation of message.
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