How to notify on register with Zoo Visitor & Postmaster

Question

I am trying to create a notification email in Postmaster to trigger on submission of a Zoo Visitor member registration form. The registration form includes a set of checkboxes for registrants to notify availability.

Using a Parcel in Postmaster as follows it will spit out all of the data but only on Edit/Update - not registration (new entry).

<h2>Performer Expression of Interest Application</h2>
<p>Date: {parcel:entry_date format="%d-%m-%Y"}</p>
<h3>{parcel:artist_group_name}</h3>
<p>{member:screen_name}</p>
<p>Email: {member:email}</p>
<p>{parcel:street_address}, {parcel:address_line_2}<br />{parcel:city} {parcel:postcode} {parcel:state}</p>
<p>Phone: {parcel:contact_phone}</p>
<p>Availability: {parcel:m_availability}</p>
<p>Website: {parcel:website_url}</p>
<p>Facebook: {parcel:facebook_profile_url}</p>
<p>Twitter: {parcel:twitter_profile_url}</p>
<p>YouTube: {parcel:youtube_channel_url}</p>
<h3>Bio / Description</h3>
{parcel:biography_act_description}

I've tried this with and without email self-activation turned on. I've tried this with all statuses and member groups ticked. Note that in this example, the Availability field outputs the correct data.

So I tried using the Zoo Visitor Register End Hook as follows:

<h2>Performer Expression of Interest Application</h2>
<p>Date: {hook:entry_date format="%d-%m-%Y"}</p>
<h3>{hook:artist_group_name}</h3>
<p>{member:screen_name}</p>
<p>Email: {member:email}</p>
<p>{hook:street_address}, {hook:address_line_2}<br />{hook:city} {hook:postcode} {hook:state}</p>
<p>Phone: {hook:contact_phone}</p>
<p>Availability: {hook:m_availability}</p>
<p>Website: {hook:website_url}</p>
<p>Facebook: {hook:facebook_profile_url}</p>
<p>Twitter: {hook:twitter_profile_url}</p>
<p>YouTube: {hook:youtube_channel_url}</p>
<h3>Bio / Description</h3>
{hook:biography_act_description}

But, I get a PHP error on form submission. The email notification arrives but with the Availability field just outputting:

Availability: Array

I also tried:

{hook:m_availability}{options}{/hook:m_availability}

and

{hook:m_availability}{option_value}{/hook:m_availability}

So, I guess there's an issue with parsing arrays like checkboxes etc when using the ZV hook - or I'm simply doing it wrong.

Seems I cant win either way.

If anyone can point me in the direction of either:

a) Getting Parcel to send notification on register

b) Outputting the Availability data when using a Hook

Answer 1

I would try to not use the native parsing of Postmaster and use the Zoo Visitor tags. This should work for you. There are no known issues with parsing zoo visitor tags and Postmaster.

{exp:zoo_visitor:details member_entry_id="{parcel:entry_id}"}

    // your template here and parse the variables without the "parcel:" prefix
    // just like a normal EE template

{/exp:zoo_visitor:details}

And as to whether you use the parcel or the hook really just depends on how you are using Zoo Visitor. Parcels work fine in most cases, but there are instances where the parcel isn't triggered properly, which is why the hooks exist. You guys will just have to decide which works best for your implementation.