create a script for sending emails to speakers

[aoloe]

a.l.e is working on it on february 20th...

the idea is to

• create a list of speakers
• each with a mailto: link
• with the subject and content of the email in it

... as it has been done the previous years...

[aoloe]

ok it was nicer than i thought at the beginning... and much harder than i would have thought at the end!

i could easily create a view... then i could create a shortcode that creates the mailto: url with subject, body and from addresses... it was very nice up to that point!

BUT: at two different places, formidable and wp try to convert the end of lines in the email body into
which makes it unusuable! i know have patched

• plugins/formidable/pro/classes/controllers/FrmProDisplaysController.php to not apply any formatting
• wp-includes/plugin.php to not convert " to typographic dashes in form views and not to add
  (and mabye other things) to the parts of a frm_display that are between {{{...}}}
• wp-content/themes/twentytwelve/functions.php with the shortcode.

i will need to refactor them, clean up everything and better document the changes.

howver, now i know how to create a schedule with formidable :-) and it's definively to work with than the old copy of the form editor we had...

[ms-studio]

The conversion into typographic dashes, that's being done by the function called wptexturize : http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wptexturize

A way of getting content without the wptexturize filter applied, in the case of post content, is to use get_the_content() : http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_the_content

Hopefully that's helpful and will prevent the need for core hacking...

[aoloe]

mmm... no,as far i can see, that won't solve the problem... but i might be missing something....

[aoloe]

ok, i think i got closer to a solution... i could not found where i could change things with get_the_content, but i can pass "wpautop=0" to the field's caller in the custom short tag

[formidable_lgm_get_schedule_item date="[172]" time="[173]" duration="[174]" speaker="[86] [87] [91]" title="[88]" summary="[90 wpautop=0]"]

this turns off formidable's mangling but not wp's one.

on top of it, i had to add to the short tag definition:

remove_filter('the_content', 'wpautop');
remove_filter('the_content', 'wptexturize');

let's hope for the best!