For gift memberships, send email receipt to the giver

Question

When Alice is creating and paying for a gift membership for Bob, she enters Bob's contact info and email address on the Membership Contribution form, so the emailed receipt goes to Bob (with a copy also going to the back office via the cc settings on the form) and Bob's email address becomes part of the contact record.

We have an optional custom field on the form where Alice can enter her own (different) email address and, ideally, receive a copy of the receipt as well.

in CiviCRM 4.6 we could make this happen by patching into postProcessMembership(), pulling the email address out of the form parameters, and tacking it onto the cc_receipt field that was passed to the sendMail function. However, in 4.7, the form handling is different enough that this method no longer works.

Is there a clean way to add a recipient to the emailed contribution receipt based on a value entered on the contribution form in CiviCRM 4.7?

thanks,

Answer 1

After some digging with debug_backtrace() to unravel the program flow within CiviCRM, I found this solution, which works:

(1) Implement hook_civicrm_postProcess(), and use it to get the giver email from $form->_submitValues. Stash it into a global variable.

(2) In CRM/Contribute/BAO/Contribution.php, patch function composeMessageArray() to append the giver email to $values['cc_receipt'] prior to the sendMail calls at the end of the function, then clear the global.

Obvious, this will need to be tested and reapplied with each upgrade of CiviCRM, but we already have a handful of such patches so one more is not too bad.

Answer 2

I'm glad you found an answer that works for you! For others with this situation not using Drupal, you can install the Gift Memberships extension.

Answer 3

On Drupal you can configure a Gift Membership form with Webform CiviCRM - store the Contacts, their Relationship, the Membership, process the Monies, control the Email receipts - it's my go-to solution for Gift Memberships!