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Change Message Email Subject

@lolotrgeek

Participant

9 years ago
I am sending a user a message with the following function:
```
		$msg = array(
			'recipients' => $recipients, 
			'subject' => $subject, 
			'content' => $content
		);

		messages_new_message ($msg);
```
I want the email subject that sends to the user when the message is sent to match the subject of the message.

I’d imagine I could do this with a filter like:
```
function messages_notification_new_message_subject($subject, $email_subject) {
	$email_subject = $subject;
}
add_filter( 'messages_notification_new_message', 'messages_notification_new_message_subject', 10, 7 );
```
But I have no idea which functions/variables to use to make a filter like this to work. Any suggestions?

Thanks!

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@shanebp

Moderator

9 years ago

There is no such filter hook as messages_notification_new_message.

There is an email_subject filter hook:
$email_subject = apply_filters( 'messages_notification_new_message_subject', $email_subject, $sender_name, $ud );
But as you can see, the variables passed do not include the message subject.

So, I don’t see a way to do what you want.

There is an enhancement ticket in the works
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6460
It might expose the fields you need.

You aren’t alone in asking for a different filtering system:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6460

@lolotrgeek

Participant

9 years ago

Thanks shanebp! Sorry for the late reply, your post may have indavertently helped me. I’ll edit this with my solution shortly.
@lolotrgeek

Participant

9 years ago
Oops hit reply not edit! well…

Here’s the solution I arrived at:
```
function filter_change_email_subject ( $email_subject, $sender_name, $ud ) {
	$email_subject = sprintf( __('%1$s wants to say hello', 'buddypress' ), $sender_name);
	return $email_subject;
}
add_filter( 'messages_notification_new_message_subject', 'filter_change_email_subject' , 10, 7 );
```
This works for what I’m doing, for someone else that wants to pass a dynamic subject you may need to nest this function.

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