Contact Form 7 Dynamic Recipient Based on Select Drop Down

Posted by Dave Averdick on March 23, 2021

We recently had a project where we wanted to use Contact Form 7 where the user’s message would send to different email addresses based on a drop-down selection menu. The solution involved using the “wpcf7_before_send_mail” filter and then accessing the data to run a conditional. After some trial and error, the final code is below, let us know your thoughts in the comment section below:

	add_filter( 'wpcf7_before_send_mail', 'davevsdave_dynamic_email_based_on_dropdown' );

	function davevsdave_dynamic_email_based_on_dropdown( $contact_form ) {
	//Get the form ID
	$form_id = $contact_form->id();

	//If it's our form with the select dropdown, let's do something...
	if( $form_id == 9487 ) {

	//Get the dorpdown value - change "regarding" to the name of your select dropdown menu
	$regarding = isset( $_POST['regarding'] ) ? trim( $_POST['regarding'] ) : '';

	//Get the contact form properties so we can change where the email is being sent
	$properties = $contact_form->get_properties();

	//Run your conditional and update the email property here. You'll want to update the conditionals to your select drop down values. If you have more than three, consider using a Switch/Case statement instead.
	if(!empty($regarding)):
	if($regarding === 'Careers'):
	$properties['mail']['recipient'] = 'careers@example.com';
	elseif($regarding === 'New Business'):
	$properties['mail']['recipient'] = 'newpartnerships@example.com';
	else:
	$properties['mail']['recipient'] = 'frontdesk@example.com';
	endif;

	//Update the contact object properties with the new email address
	$contact_form->set_properties($properties);


	endif;
	}
	//Finally, return the form, and that's it!
	return $contact_form;
	}