Selectable recipient with pipes contact form 7 get country name issue - wordpress

Question

I am using country dropdown in my contact form 7. it look like this [select* country "Canada | team1#website.com,team3#website.com" "Mexico | team2#website.com" "Zimbabwe | team3#website.com"], It is working fine if I am using it to get first value by [_row_country] and second value (after pipe) by [country] in mail section.
But I want to save it in customer database and tryin to get country name by this
$your_country = $form_data['_raw_country'];
$country = implode( ', ', (array) $your_country );
it return only email but not country, So I also try this
$your_country = $form_data['country'];
$country = implode( ', ', (array) $your_country );
It return blank.
This is my Code for reference.
function contactform7_before_send_mail( $contact_form, $abort, $submission ) {
// set your db details.
$mydb = new wpdb( 'user', 'password', 'database', 'localhost' );
if ( $submission ) {
$form_data = $submission->get_posted_data();
$your_country = $form_data['_raw_country'];
$country = implode( ', ', (array) $your_country );
$mydb->insert(
'tableName',
array(
'fullname' => sanitize_text_field( $form_data['FullName'] ),
'country' => $country,
'companyname' => sanitize_text_field( $form_data['CompanyName'] ),
),
array( '%s', '%s', '%s' )
);
}
}
add_action( 'wpcf7_before_send_mail', 'contactform7_before_send_mail', 10, 3 );
this is the reference link https://contactform7.com/selectable-recipient-with-pipes/

Answer 1

To get the information from the pipes, you can't just use the [_raw_field] since it's not stored that way. It's a little more complicated to get the value of the Piped data. To get the value of the pipes, you have to retrieve the form tags, then loop through the pipe values for each.
add_action( 'wpcf7_before_send_mail', 'dd_handle_form_submission', 10, 3 );
function dd_handle_form_submission( $contact_form, $abort, $submission ) {
if ( $submission ) {
$form_data = $submission->get_posted_data();
// Get the tags.
$tags = $submission->get_contact_form()->scan_form_tags();
// Get the country field submission.
$country = $submission->get_posted_data( 'country' );
foreach ( $tags as $tag ) {
if ( 'country' === $tag->name ) {
// Get the Pipes.
$pipe_array = $tag->pipes->to_array();
foreach ( $pipe_array as $value ) {
if ( $country[0] === $value[1] ) {
// $value[0] is Left of Pipe - $value[1] is right of pipe.
$country_name = $value[0];
}
}
}
}
if ( isset( $country_name ) ) {
$mydb = new wpdb( 'user', 'password', 'database', 'localhost' );
$mydb->insert(
'tableName',
array(
'fullname' => sanitize_text_field( $form_data['FullName'] ),
'country' => $country_name,
'companyname' => sanitize_text_field( $form_data['CompanyName'] ),
),
array( '%s', '%s', '%s' )
);
}
}
}
New Answer / Solution to Specific Problem
In your case, the values after the pipes are not unique. This poses another issue all together, which makes pipes less than awesome. In this case, I would use jQuery and a hidden form field.
Make the contact form something like this:
<p>[select* country id:country include_blank "Canada | team1#website.com,team3#website.com" "Mexico | team2#website.com" "Serbia | team2#website.com" "Zimbabwe | team3#website.com"]</p>
<p>[text FullName]</p>
<p>[email your-email]</p>
[hidden hidden_country id:hidden_country]
[submit]
<script>
jQuery(function($){
$('#country').on( 'change', function() {
$('#hidden_country').val($(this).val());
});
});
</script>
Then since you're just capturing the country value on change, you can easily push that value to your database, and your email to (the right of the pipes) is used, and that's that.
add_action( 'wpcf7_before_send_mail', 'dd_handle_form_submission', 10, 3 );
function dd_handle_form_submission( $contact_form, $abort, $submission ) {
if ( $submission ) {
$form_data = $submission->get_posted_data();
$country_name = sanitize_text_field( $form_data['hidden_country'] );
if ( ! empty( $country_name ) ) {
$mydb = new wpdb( 'user', 'password', 'database', 'localhost' );
$mydb->insert(
'tableName',
array(
'fullname' => sanitize_text_field( $form_data['FullName'] ),
'country' => $country_name,
'companyname' => sanitize_text_field( $form_data['CompanyName'] ),
),
array( '%s', '%s', '%s' )
);
}
}
}