wordpress contact form 7 disable email - php

Question

I am facing an issue with Contact Form 7 for Wordpress. I want to disable the email notification which i did using
demo_mode: on
At the same time i want to redirect on submit which i used to do using
on_sent_ok: "location = 'http://domain.com/about-us/';"
Both would work when used individually.But i want to use both at the same time.
I tried doing
on_sent_ok: "location = 'http://domain.com/about-us/';"
demo_mode: on
Doesnt seem to work. Kindly advice.

Answer 1

The plugin author has changed as of at least 4.0 the way you should do this again. The skip_mail property is now private :
class WPCF7_Submission {
private $skip_mail = false;
...
}
You should use this filter : wpcf7_skip_mail
For example :
function my_skip_mail($f){
$submission = WPCF7_Submission::get_instance();
if(/* YOUR TEST HERE */){
return true; // DO NOT SEND E-MAIL
}
}
add_filter('wpcf7_skip_mail','my_skip_mail');

Answer 2

The author of the plugin Contact Form 7 has refactored some of the code for its version 3.9 and since then the callback function for the hook wpcf7_before_send_mail must be written differently.
To prevent Contact Form 7 from sending the email and force it to redirect after the form has been submitted, please have a look at the following piece of code (for version >= 3.9):
add_action( 'wpcf7_before_send_mail', wpcf7_disablEmailAndRedirect );
function wpcf7_disablEmailAndRedirect( $cf7 ) {
// get the contact form object
$wpcf7 = WPCF7_ContactForm::get_current();
// do not send the email
$wpcf7->skip_mail = true;
// redirect after the form has been submitted
$wpcf7->set_properties( array(
'additional_settings' => "on_sent_ok: \"location.replace('http://example.com//');\"",
) );
}

Answer 3

Hook into wpcf7_before_send_mail instead of using the flag .
add_action("wpcf7_before_send_mail", "wpcf7_disablemail");
function wpcf7_disablemail(&$wpcf7_data) {
// this is just to show you $wpcf7_data and see all the stored data ..!
var_dump($wpcf7_data); // disable this line
// If you want to skip mailing the data..
$wpcf7_data->skip_mail = true;
}

Answer 4

Just an update. The following works in 4.1.1.
on_sent_ok: "location = 'http://domain.com/about-us/';"
demo_mode: on

Answer 5

Set skip_mail: on does the trick.

Answer 6

There might have been a change to contact-form-7, because I wasn't able to access the $skip_mail variable in the WPCF7_Submission object. I looked at the submission.php object in the \wp-content\plugins\contact-form-7\includes\submission.php file and found this:
private $skip_mail = false;
Since the variable is private, and there are no getters or setters in the file, you're not going to be able to change it externally. Just change it to this:
public $skip_mail = false;
and then you can change the variable like this in your functions.php file:
add_filter('wpcf7_before_send_mail', 'wpcf7_custom_form_action_url');
function wpcf7_custom_form_action_url( $form)
{
$submission = WPCF7_Submission::get_instance();
$submission->skip_mail = true;
}
A reminder, if you update the contact-form-7 plugin, it will probably nullify your change, so keep that in mind.

Answer 7

Simple code
Copy and paste the following code in your activated theme functions.php file.
add_filter('wpcf7_skip_mail','__return_true');

Answer 8

UPDATE WPCF7 ver. 7.5: There is now a filter specifically to handle this.
function my_skip_mail($f){
$submission = WPCF7_Submission::get_instance();
$data = $submission->get_posted_data();
if (/* do your testing here*/){
return true; // DO NOT SEND E-MAIL
}
}
add_filter('wpcf7_skip_mail','my_skip_mail');