ExpressionEngine - Send custom field in New Member Registration Email?

Question

I need to send custom field data to the admin when a user registers. In this example I'm trying to send the ZIPCODE along with other standard fields. I'm using freemember to collect the custom field data.

This is my Admin Notification of New Member Registration Template:

    New member registration site: {site_name}

    Name: {name}
    User Name: {username}
    Email: {email}

    zipcode: {zipcode}

    Your control panel URL: {control_panel_url}

Any Help is greatly appreciated. I do have Solspace User, but that hasn't been any help.

Answer 1

You can do this easily with Notify Control. No needs in any php coding. Just email template with regular expressionengine code.

Answer 2

I was able to get this to work using Postmaster. Thanks to Justin over there for pointing me in the right direction.

I created a new php file in the hooks dir of postmaster:

E.g.

Member_member_register.php

<?php if ( ! defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');

class Member_member_register_postmaster_hook extends Base_hook { 

    protected $title = 'Member member register';

    public function __construct($params = array())
    {
        parent::__construct(array());
    }

    public function trigger($data, $member_id) 
    {   


        $member = $this->channel_data->get_member($member_id)->row_array(); 

        $member['email'] = $_POST['email'];
        $member['street_address'] = $_POST['street_address'];
        $member['city'] = $_POST['city'];
        $member['state'] = $_POST['state'];
        $member['zipcode'] = $_POST['zipcode'];


        return $this->send($parse_vars, $member); 
    } 
}

Then in my postmaster template, I accessed the data like such:

Name: {hook:screen_name}
Email: {hook:email}
Address: {hook:street_address}
{hook:city}, {hook:state} {hook:zipcode}

The downside is that you have to hard code the values. If you were to add more fields, you would have to change the hook file. I'm sure with some tweaking you could make this dynamic.

Answer 3

I haven't run into this specific problem before, but a quick google turned up this thread and this earlier thread, which seem to imply that you can't use custom fields in the member registration emails.

I am afraid there is no built-in way to use other variables in these mails. Perhaps Freeform can handle that? Otherwise it’d have to be a Feature Request.

I wouldn't recommend hacking core files, so your best bet is probably to check out Postmaster or another email plugin to see if it can do this for you.