{"id":10462,"date":"2016-04-21T03:39:27","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T07:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/docs.gravityforms.com\/?post_type=gdoc&#038;p=10462"},"modified":"2022-05-31T09:13:18","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T13:13:18","slug":"gform_notification_validation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/docs.gravityforms.com\/gform_notification_validation\/","title":{"rendered":"gform_notification_validation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"alert_yellow pad_20 wp-block-paragraph\">This filter was removed in Gravity Forms v2.5 and is no longer supported. <br>From Gravity Forms 2.5, notification settings and their validation callbacks are now defined via the&nbsp;<a href=\"\/gform_notification_settings_fields\">gform_notification_settings_fields<\/a>&nbsp;filter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-description\">Description<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The gform_notification_validation filter can be used to validate custom notification settings added using the <a href=\"\/gform_notification_ui_settings\" data-autolink=\"autolink_gform_notification_ui_settings\">gform_notification_ui_settings<\/a> and <a href=\"\/gform_pre_notification_save\" data-autolink=\"autolink_gform_pre_notification_save\">gform_pre_notification_save<\/a> filters and override the default validation result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-usage\">Usage<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The following would apply to all forms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><pre class=\"brush: php; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\nadd_filter( 'gform_notification_validation', 'your_function_name', 10, 3 );\n<\/pre><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To limit the scope of your function to a specific form, append the form id to the end of the hook name. (format: gform_notification_validation_FORMID)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><pre class=\"brush: php; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\nadd_filter( 'gform_notification_validation_5', 'your_function_name', 10, 3 );\n<\/pre><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"gf-docs-parameters\">\n<h2 id=\"h-parameters\">Parameters<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>$is_valid<\/strong> <a href=\"\/boolean\" data-autolink=\"autolink_boolean\">boolean<\/a>\n<p>The result of the default notification validation which checks if the emails for the to, bcc, and replyTo settings are valid.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>$notification<\/strong> <a href=\"\/array\" data-autolink=\"autolink_array\">array<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An array of properties which make up the notification object to be saved. 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Require a setting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This example shows how the new setting added by the <a href=\"\/gform_notification_ui_settings\" data-autolink=\"autolink_gform_notification_ui_settings\">gform_notification_ui_settings<\/a> and <a href=\"\/gform_pre_notification_save\" data-autolink=\"autolink_gform_pre_notification_save\">gform_pre_notification_save<\/a> filters can be required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><pre class=\"brush: php; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\nadd_filter( 'gform_notification_validation', 'notification_validation', 10, 3 );\nfunction notification_validation( $is_valid, $notification, $form ) {\n\n    if ( rgempty( 'my_custom_setting', $notification ) ) {\n        $is_valid = false;\n        GFCommon::add_error_message( esc_html( 'Please enter a value for the My Custom Label setting.' ) );\n    }\n\n    return $is_valid;\n}\n<\/pre><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-since\">Since<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This filter was added in Gravity Forms 1.9.16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-source-code\">Source Code<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This filter is located in GFNotification::notification_edit_page() in <em>notification.php<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This filter was removed in Gravity Forms v2.5 and is no longer supported. 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