[Solved] Email with single quote brake formalicious code

1

Hello, using formalicious I created an email field that is the field where the email is going to be send.
the problem is that it’s not working if the email contains a single quote: o’neil@mail.com

Error log:

An error occurred while trying to send the auto-responder email: You must provide at least one recipient email address.

What is the best way to proceed excluding telling the client that emails with single quotes are stupid! :sweat_smile:

Thanks!

2

This seems to be a general problem with FormIt (and not specific to Formalicious).

As far as I can tell, the value o'neil@mail.com gets converted to o'neil@mail.com which is then no longer a valid email address.

So in your call to FormIt you have to add the validator allowSpecialChars for your email field to make it work.

[[!FormIt?
    &validate=`email:allowSpecialChars:required`
]]

Or alternatively add a custom hook that reverts this specific conversion:

<?php
$email = $hook->getValue('email');
$email = str_replace("&#039;","'",$email);
$hook->setValue('email', $email);
return true;
3

As the client will inevitably run into further problems using an email address with a single quote in it could they be persuaded to set up an email alias of oneil@mail.com so that people who have problems emailing them can use this alternative address. This way they get to keep their stupid address, but you don’t have to use it.

4

Doesn’t the email validator catch this? Better to just tell them their email address is invalid rather than trying to somehow alter it to be valid imo:

&validate=`email:email:required`
5

o'neil@mail.com is not an invalid email address! The validator allowSpecialChars doesn’t alter the value but rather prevents it from being altered to o&#039;neil@mail.com.

&validate=`email:allowSpecialChars:email:required`
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6

Thank you all for your help.
I was thinking that emails should not have especial characters but unfortunately single quote it’s allowed but thanks to the

allowSpecialChars

It’s working.

So thank @halftrainedharry
What I’m doing now is using JS to make the validation, and ht e problem has been solved.

Thanks everybody!