Accessing Elementor Form Fields

[Steve40]

Greetings!

I'm kinda learning php as I go along here (though I do have some experience in other languages), so I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction.

I'm using an add_action() function in functions.php to access the form data from an Elementor form. Works fine from within add_action(), however I cannot access any of the variables created from elsewhere within functions.php (tried adding a return).

There's probably an easy solution, but I've been wracking my brains all weekend, and haven't gotten anywhere. Any thoughts?

Side Thought: I've also tried do_shortcode(), which does retrieve the information I need, but it seems to modify it somehow, so comparison opperators return as false, even though they are visually equal.

add_action( 'elementor_pro/forms/new_record', function( $record ) {
    $form_name = $record->get_form_settings( 'form_name' );
    if ( 'MyElementorForm' !== $form_name ) {
        return;
    }

    $raw_fields = $record->get( 'fields' );
    $fields = [];
    foreach ( $raw_fields as $id => $field ) {
        $fields[ $id ] = $field['value'];
    }
    $letter_type = $fields['LetterType'];

    // Send Test Email //
    if($letter_type === "1"){
        $message = "Upload";
    } elseif($letter_type === "0"){
        $message = "PDF";
    } else {
        $message = "Fail " . gettype($letter_type) . " " . $letter_type;
    }

    mail(
    "my@email_address.com",
    "Test",
    "Test Message " . $message
    );

    
}, 10, 2);

 

[requinix]

What kind of variables do you want? Where did they get their values?

[Strider64]

I would suggest to find a recent good online PHP tutorial or a recent PHP How-to-code book to get familiar with programming in that language.

[maxxd]

Sounds like you want a custom form action: https://developers.elementor.com/forms-api/custom-form-action/

I've only played with Elementor so I could be wrong, but it sounds right.