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September 23, 2019 at 5:05 AM #16230
Resolved Mary Anne Lavin
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I need to set up an email notification that goes to my client when someone submits a form from the frontend, but I keep getting errors. Could you walk me through the steps. I was using this from the documentation, and adding my meta box in the brackets.
```
add_action( 'rwmb_frontend_after_process', function( $config, $post_id ) {
    if ( 'my-meta-box' === $config['id'] ) {
        wp_mail( 'admin@domain.com', 'New submission', 'A new post has been just submitted.' );

        wp_safe_redirect( 'thank-you' );
        die;
    }
}, 10, 2 );
```
But I get this error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected 'add_action' (T_STRING), expecting function (T_FUNCTION) in /nfs/c12/h07/mnt/220007/domains/devseek.minnesotaee.org/html/wp-content/plugins/mb-frontend-submission/src/Form.php on line 152
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September 23, 2019 at 5:09 PM #16242

Anh Tran
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Hi Mary,

Looks like you're using a very old version of PHP, probably 5.2. Please ask your host to update it to the latest version (which is 7.3), or any version >= 5.3. The code then will work.

September 24, 2019 at 11:49 AM #16260

Mary Anne Lavin
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You were correct about the php. I had them change it to 7. But now I get this:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected 'add_action' (T_STRING), expecting function (T_FUNCTION) or const (T_CONST) in /nfs/c12/h07/mnt/220007/domains/devseek.minnesotaee.org/html/wp-content/plugins/mb-frontend-submission/src/Form.php on line 155

September 24, 2019 at 11:57 AM #16261

Anh Tran
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Hi Mary, can you check the line 155 in the file Form.php? I don't see the add_action text on that file as the error says:

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Anyway, after upgrading to PHP 7, did you check phpinfo() to make sure it's PHP 7? Some host/server requires to restart the PHP service to work.

September 24, 2019 at 12:41 PM #16264
Mary Anne Lavin
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I just ran phpinfo and it reports PHP Version 7.2.12. I added code to the form.php and so the line 155 on my file has the first line of the code below:
```
add_action( 'rwmb_frontend_after_process', function( $config, $post_id ) {
    if ( 'my-meta-box' === $config['mymetaboxid#'] ) {
        wp_mail( 'myemail@gmail.com', 'New submission', 'A new post has been just submitted.' );

        wp_safe_redirect( 'thank-you' );
        die;
    }
}, 10, 2 );
```
September 24, 2019 at 12:47 PM #16265
Mary Anne Lavin
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Also, this may have nothing to do with it, but your screen shot looks nothing like my form.php file. Here's my file lines 145 - 163
```
        do_action( 'rwmb_frontend_before_process', $this->config );
        $object_id             = $this->object->save();
        $this->object->post_id = $object_id;
        do_action( 'rwmb_frontend_after_process', $this->config, $object_id );

        return $object_id;
    }
    /**
     * Handling deleting posts by id.
     */
    public function delete() {
        if ( empty( $this->config['post_id'] ) ) {
            return;
        }
        do_action( 'rwmb_frontend_before_delete', $this->config );
        wp_delete_post( $this->config['post_id'] );
        do_action( 'rwmb_frontend_after_delete', $this->config, $this->config['post_id'] );
    }
```
September 24, 2019 at 12:53 PM #16267

Anh Tran
Keymaster

I got it. You should not add code directly into the plugin. Because when the plugin updates,your modification will lost.

Instead, please add the code to your theme's functions.php file, or use a plugin like Code Snippet to add code.

September 24, 2019 at 1:06 PM #16268

Mary Anne Lavin
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So, just to be safe, I checked the version of Frontend I was using. It was 2.02. I was able to download the newer version from your site. So now we match. I am working in Form.php v 2.04. (NOTE: there was no notice in WordPress of a newer version to update to.)

Anyway, all that said and done, I get the same error - just now on a different line

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected 'add_action' (T_STRING), expecting function (T_FUNCTION) or const (T_CONST) in /nfs/c12/h07/mnt/220007/domains/devseek.minnesotaee.org/html/wp-content/plugins/mb-frontend-submission/src/Form.php on line 134

September 24, 2019 at 1:12 PM #16269

Mary Anne Lavin
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Looks like we were sending t the same time.

I want to circle back to the directions.
"The plugin will look for a template file with the following order:

Inside a folder mb-frontend-submission of your child theme
Inside a folder mb-frontend-submission of your parent theme
In the plugin’s templates folder
"
I had intended to do that once I could see it worked in the parent. But if I understand you correctly, it does not do in the templates folder in my child theme. It goes into functions.

September 24, 2019 at 4:57 PM #16271

Anh Tran
Keymaster

Hi Mary,

That part of the documentation is for the template files, such as template for confirmation message, template for post title field, etc.

Template files are not for custom actions like what you tried to do with add_action. So, please use the theme's functions.php file or Code Snippets plugin to add your custom actions, as I suggested above.
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