I have done some searching but still am having an issue getting this to function.

When I run this code, the mail company API errors out with no message body. Which is the $contact_form_template variable in the sendMailAPI function.

If I place a line of code right after cms:php like:
$contact_email_template = 'This is the email body';

To give couch the variable it needs, it works. At the top of the page, I have an include for the global file (contents functions, other settings used throughout site outside of couch, including the contact template) then an include for couch cms.

<cms:pages masterpage= recipients.php'>
<cms:show_repeatable 'contact-form'>
<cms:php>
sendMailAPI('<cms:show email />', 'contact@domain.com', 'From Name', 'Contact Form Subject', $contact_email_template);
</cms:php>
</cms:show_repeatable>
</cms:pages>

[trendoman]

$contact_email_template is unknown at the moment. <cms:php>echo $contact_email_template; </cms:php> will show nothing as well. Try to switch places of require_once on top of template.

I found the fix.

I just needed to add after <cms:php>

global $contact_form_template;

Then it worked and pulled the template.

I tried to go back a few times to remove my post or even find it to post but it seems to go through an authentication period.

[trendoman]

Thanks for posting the fix. If you still want to delete your post, let me know.

[KK]

I don't think we should delete this post. I'm sure it will help someone trying to work with <cms:php> tag in the future. The use of 'global' is very often the only change one requires to make while porting existing PHP code into <cms:php> tag.