Issue with API mail_send parameter but manual emails work

[Arbel]

I am trying to integrate this plugin on our website to support login features. So far it has been mostly successful but we are having an issue with emails. In our PayPal IPN call we create the member with the API like so:

$post_arr = array(			
'swpm_api_action' => 'create',
			'key' => '(key hidden)',
			'user_name' => $email,
			'first_name' => $first_name,
			'last_name' => $last_name,
			'email' => $email,
			'street' => $address_1,
			'city' => $city,
			'state' => $state,
			'zipcode' => $zipcode,
			'country' => $country,
			'company' => $business,
			'phone' => $phone,
			'membership_level' => $membershipLevel,
			'send_mail' => 1
		);

This successfully adds the user as noted by when outputting the API response (omitted some values).

(
    [result] => success
    [message] => Member created successfully
    [member] => Array
        (
            [first_name] => firstname
            [last_name] => lastname
            [user_name] => username
            [email] => email
            [phone] => # here
            [company_name] => 
            [country] => US
            [membership_level] => 4
            [account_state] => activation_required
            [reg_code] => code here
            [member_id] => id here
        )

)

However, it does not trigger an email. What might be causing this? I have read the post about emails not being sent out and I have done the following:

1.) Enabled Debug option to see logging. We do not get any logging when making the API call.
2.) Use an SMTP plugin. We have this setup and its working fine for WooCommerce and other plugins.
3.) Use an email associated with the domain. We do this and its worked fine in every plugin.
4.) Try manual password reset emails to see if its just the API. This does seem to work and is the only email that gets sent out with this plugin.
5.) Ensure the from address is correct in the settings.

Any ideas on what else it may be? Is my API request not correct? Does activation required not trigger an email regardless?

Thanks,
Matt

[The Assurer]

Please refer to the file: classes/class.swpm-utils.php
Scroll down to the definition of: SwpmUtils.get_registration_complete_prompt_link()
Within the foreach loop…
Notice the following conditional block…

    if ( $send_email && empty($member->user_name) ) {
        <snip>
        wp_mail($member->email, $subject, $email_body, $headers);
        <snip>
    }

In other words… if user_name is already defined; no registration email will be sent, no matter what send_email is set to.

[Arbel]

Thank you for the clarification. I removed the username from the parameters but it still did not work. However, I decided to try using send_email instead of send_mail. That fixed it. I was going based off of this documentation:

https://simple-membership-plugin.com/simple-membership-api-creating-member-account-using-http-post-request/

It specifically states, “There is an additional parameter send_mail, which can be 1 or 0. If it’s 1, addon will send registration email to user upon successful user creation. If not – it won’t.”

I think this should be updated to say send_email as well as clear up any confusion about passing a username. I was thinking you could force the username to be their email but still require activation to confirm said email. Thank you.

[admin]

There was a typo in the documentation. I have just fixed it. Thank you for pointing it out.

[Author]

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