I am using the Gravity Forms API to manually add entries to a form I've created. According to the docs, the triggers that would normally send the notification emails to both admins and users are not fired:
Intended to be used for importing an entry object. The usual hooks that are triggered while saving entries are not fired here.
Does anyone know how I could programmatically trigger these notifications?
Thanks!
You're looking for GFCommon::send_notification. There's a tutorial with a code example.
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I am using the Paypal Subscription Button Html and Script provide by paypal. Now I wanted to link with paypal webhook. I want to track the events like BILLING.SUBSCRIPTION.RENEWED and BILLING.SUBSCRIPTION.CANCELLED.
Is this possible without using the App keys? When I created the App , I created with the same paypal-id so, that means my all webhooks in app is going get render when subscription event take place, without attaching any keys with it ?
Anyone there who can solve my query?
In order to receive Webhook events, you need to first subscribe to them.
For information on ways to subscribe to Webhook events for an application, see the PayPal documentation here.
It can be done via an API call, or via the Developer Dashboard.
I am a Wordpress developer using a plugin called MemberMouse and got a task that whenever a user signup using MemberMouse sign up form it fires an verification email to the new registered user.
I was asked to do it with the smart tags provided by MemberMouse.
As I read out the plugin's documentation I do not find any smart tag that perform this type of action. Is there any way to make this verification thing work?
I tried to figure it out myself. It could only be done by writing a custom code for it in Wordpress that triggers mail after user becomes a Member.
I read laravel documentations about Events and Notifications, it seems we can fire an event and from that event (using ShouldBroadcast interface) broadcast it to laravel echo which i understand, in the other hand we can use Notifications viaBroadcast to do the same, so what's the difference?
What the provided answer lacks imo is that they are in most cases used both instead of 1 or the other, which seems to be the tone of the provided answer/question.
An event is something significant in your application. Let's assume your application is a Webshop.
A significant action in your webshop can be Product Purchased . When a product is purchased you need to do a lot of different steps. Putting this all inside a controller and potentially in several different places can get very messy and not clear.
So a good approach would be to use a Event called ProductPurchased . This event can have Listeners, those listeners are in this case all the steps you need to perform when a user purchases a product.
e.g.:
ProductPurchased (event)
BillClient (eventlistener)
GenerateInvoice (eventlistener)
notifyClient (eventlistener)
...
Let's say we want to notify our client with a text-message and an email when they purchased a product.
So on the notifyClient event-listener we can create a Notification . This notification is responsible for sending a message to the client. This can be a SMS/Slack-message/Email/...
And like you mentioned both Events and Notifications can be put on the Queue or can be broadcasted. Broadcasting is mainly used in combination with Laravel Echo and the use of Websockets.
You choose notifications when you want to send something to different channels. Mail/SMS/Slack..
If you only need broadcasting you can just use ShouldBroadcast. Just like when you only want to send an e-mail use Mail:: without the need for a notification.
Notifications are a nice way to group the same 'message' to different destinations.
After thinking a lot, i found out that they are made for different things, here's what i understood:
Notifications:
Consider facebook, everytime you login you see bunch of notifications about things that happened while you where away, also if you are present you see live notifications..
meanwhile you're getting emails about notifications that you want..
this is exactly what Laravel Notifications is doing.
you can use notify method on your eloquent models such as App\User about something like OrderApproved which will do whatever you planned it to do for you like sending sms to that user. and also you can save one instant of that notification on database so when user comes back he or she can see that you have approved their order..
Events:
it's when something happens, like when a new user is created and you want to do different things like sending verification email, sending verification sms and.. this is why you create an event so that you could handle different logics of that event using listeners.
when it comes to broadcasting, you can use ShouldBroadcast interface on your event and from there you can sync data with your admin panel that a new user is registered. this will be useful when admin is watching list of users and without reloading the page you could user Laravel Echo to receive that event on admin panel and append new registered user to the list.
Conclusion:
it really depends on what you need, if you just want to update something in your interface, maybe events are what you need. but if you need to do more you can use notifications.
in the end events are used when you need to do things when something happens while notifications are report of what just happened.
hope it help others..
I am attempting to use the Mailchimp API to allow site visitors to subscribe to my newsletter. Currently, any signups with the default form action that Mailchimp provides sends an Opt-In email and opens a new email to say thanks for subscribing, which I want to avoid. Instead, if I use the API, I can set those options to false. The problem is that it doesn't look like Shopify allows PHP or Ruby in their shop code. I've been looking for weeks for a solution, but I'm at a loss.
Here is a turnaround for this:
1.- Create a Wufoo form with one only field: email address.
2.- Paste this Wufoo form at your Shopify store. We'd recommed pasting the JavaScript version.
It can look like this
3.- On your notifications tab at your Wufoo form, choose to Send notifications to Another Aplication. On the dropdown, choose MailChimp click on Add integration and follow steps. You will be sending all email addresses to your desired MailChimp list.
Tiny problem is that placeholders on Wufoo forms, don't disappear on click, so the user needs to go inside the field and delete all the placeholder. (This might be a good point because robots can't do this, and you make sure the user is really involved in the process of typig his/her email address.)
I am trying to find a simple bare bones example/demo that shows me how I can build a trivial/proof of concept website that will collect user email (and maybe first name), and add this name to a list created on mailchimp.
To clarify, I am not merely asking how to create a PHP/mySQl website - I already know how to do that, and I already know how to place a form on a page etc.
Assuming I already have the following:
- A php/MySQL site with a registration form
- A newly created list on mailchimp
More specifically, I want a user to be able to register on a page on my site, and then I want the following sequence of events to happen:
When a user clicks the 'submit' button on my page, their details gets sent to mailchimp and added to a specific list created on mailchimp
They are sent a confirmation email by mailchimp
Once they confirm subscription, they are directed back to a page on my site, with a token from mailchimp
I store their details (provided by mailchimp) into my MySQL database
I send the confirmed subscriber an email with an attachment
When the user unsubscribes from the list, I get notified by mailchimp and I can flag the user as unsubscribed in my database.
I have not been able to find a simple demo (or tutorial) that shows how to implement the required functionality listed above. Can anyone recommend a link (or links) to get me started with implementing these specific "bare bone" functionality?
The documentation is rather good I thought?
Just checkout the API-docs: http://apidocs.mailchimp.com/api/how-to/basic-subscribe.php
And if for some reason you do not want to read docs but just want to see code (please, don't do this, but hey, what do I know): click on the exmples listed here: http://apidocs.mailchimp.com/api/downloads/#examples
Start with the example code and if it doesn't do exactly everything, you can find it at the docs easily enough.