Using filter postie_post_before to identify a response

Resolved Cristiano
(@iclapton)

11 years, 1 month ago
Hi Postie friends,

Thanks for your great plugin. I’m working on a CRM project using Postie and it works great! Just a question about the filter…

Using postie_post_before (or other), is there an easy way to know if the email is a response or not? I mean, since Postie needs to do it before save the post, it uses any variable to store it that we can use?

I’m trying to do it this way:
```
$email_title = $post['post_title'];
$find = "Re:";
$email_response = stripos($email_title, $find);

if ( $email_resposta !== false ) {
	$response = true;
} else {
	$response = false;
}
```
It looks good, but always return false, even if it’s a response.

Any help??
Thanks!

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Thread Starter Cristiano
(@iclapton)

11 years, 1 month ago

It looks like Postie takes off the “Re:” string of the subject before the postie_post_before filter…

I just realize that if I print the $post[‘post_title’], it doesn’t have the “Re:” string, but Postie recognize it as a response, as Postie saves it as a comment…

What should I do so??

Thread Starter Cristiano
(@iclapton)

11 years, 1 month ago

I tried to get the $post[‘comment_author’], hoping that a “no response” email have it empty, but that is not the case.

Any help please?
Thread Starter Cristiano
(@iclapton)

11 years, 1 month ago
New try:
```
$email_resp = $post['comment_content'] . $post['comment_post_ID'] . $post['comment_author_email'] . $post['comment_date'] . $post['comment_date_gmt'] . $post['comment_author_url'] . $post['comment_author_IP'] . $post['comment_approved'] . $post['comment_agent'] . $post['comment_type'] . $post['comment_parent'] . $post['user_id'];

if ( $email_resp ) {
	echo "this is a reply";
} else {
	echo "no reply";
}
```
It doesn’t work. $email_resp is always empty, doesn’t matter if it’s a reply or not.
Thread Starter Cristiano
(@iclapton)

11 years, 1 month ago

Tried the same as the last one, but with the postie_post_after filter… the $email_resp variable is still empty. I really don’t know what to do.

Thread Starter Cristiano
(@iclapton)

11 years ago

Is there a way to know if the incoming email is a reply or not?

Plugin Author Wayne Allen
(@wayneallen-1)

11 years ago

Look for the array element “comment_post_ID” to see if the post is a response.

i.e.

$response = array_key_exists('comment_post_ID', $post);
Thread Starter Cristiano
(@iclapton)

10 years, 9 months ago
Hi Wayne,

Sorry, I just saw your answer… in fact, I tried this and couldn’t get it working…

Tried this:
```
if (array_key_exists('comment_post_ID', $post)) {
	$comment = "yes";
} else {
	$comment = "no";
}
```
and this:
```
if (isset($post['comment_post_ID'])) {
	$comment = "yes";
} else {
	$comment = "no";
}
```
And both returns “no”… although Postie gets the email and publish it as a comment.
Thread Starter Cristiano
(@iclapton)

10 years, 9 months ago

Running Postie with debug mode I couldn’t find the key comment_post_ID on the log also…

Plugin Author Wayne Allen
(@wayneallen-1)

10 years, 9 months ago

Sorry, I didn’t look close enough. I’ve added 2 new filter hooks postie_comment_before and postie_comment_after in version 1.7.6

Thread Starter Cristiano
(@iclapton)

10 years, 3 months ago

Hey Wayne, how are you doing?

Now I have another problems, probably related to this…

Let me underestand… I’m using the ‘postie_post_before’ filter. Using this to get the email’s subject: “$subject = $post[‘post_title’];”. After version 1.7.6, if this email is a reply, I still get the post_title (email’s subject) this way?

More than that, if it’s a reply, the ‘postie_post_before’ filter will work? Or I need to use instead ‘postie_comment_before’? And, if it’s the case, How can I get the post_title/email subject?

Thanks
Plugin Author Wayne Allen
(@wayneallen-1)

10 years, 3 months ago
If you have Postie set to treat replies as comments you will need to hook postie_comment_before. You can get the post title like this:
```
$post = get_post($comment['comment_post_ID']);
$title = $post->post_title;
```

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