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August 6, 2019 at 4:12 am

When using an existing email for additional attendees though, an error is returned and I cannot proceed to payment options.

You can disable the check used for that using the one of the functions here:

https://gist.github.com/joshfeck/1131145859a3fab58f4d

You likely need the one from disable_email_match_everyone.php

Is there a way to sync additional attendee data to existing users (just like it does for the primary attendee?)

Syncing changes to the wp user account? No, because then essentially any user could update any other users details by simply adding them as an additional registrant.

Also, Is it possible to replace the additional attendee information with a simple dropdown, whereby the user simply selects from a list of existing registered users, and the registration becomes synced to teh user?

Not currently.

August 6, 2019 at 10:36 am

I’m not really sure I can answer that question.

If I understand what you want to do correctly then you’re allowing a single user the ability to update other users details of your site using based on knowing their email address, personally, I don’t think that’s a good idea.

The only person that should be able to update your details is yourself, linking a registration to another user’s EE contact is fine, you’re not updating anything so worst case if you have additional registration attached to your EE_Contact that you were unaware of. Users changing other users details brings that to a whole other level in my opinion.

Without knowing all of the details I’m assuming you’ll have no way to track this, so if someone figures out that they can do that and decieds to just randomly update user accounts with random data, your going to have a real mess to fix.

August 7, 2019 at 2:52 am

If I am understanding correctly, linking additional attendee emails to a matching UserID in mysql is a non risky way to do this?

Again if I understand correctly, that sounds fine in terms of risk.

However, I’m not sure it will solve the problem.

What exactly are you trying to track?

You mention searching for wp_users based on email and then linking them to a matching User ID, which User ID? The ID of the user making the registrations or the ‘found’ user?

What is the end goal you are trying to achieve?

August 7, 2019 at 9:12 am

So you’re linking all registrations to their WP_User accounts similar to how the WP USer integration add-on links the primary registrant to their account?

Has every member registered onto an event at least once?

When you register onto an event with EE it creates an EE_Contact using the First Name, Last Name and Email address of the registrant (It will ONLY do that is you are using the System Questions, meaning you need to ask the ‘Personal Information’ question group on additional attendees).

Before creating new contacts it searches for any current contacts (not WP Users, EE contacts) that match the First Name, Last Name and Email address of the registrant, if it finds one it links the registration to that contact.

The WP User Integration add-on integrates EE_Contacts to WP_User accounts by saving the WP_User account ID as a meta value of the EE_Contact. There’s a fair bit more to it than the above, but if you go through how the add-on does what it’s doing you may be able to alter the functionality to do what you need working from that which in the long run may work better than what you’re trying to do.

The add-on currently only sets the EE_Contact -> WP_User relationship for the primary registrant but again its something you could alter to work with others. I don’t think relying solely on the email address is a good idea, you should use First Name, Last Name and Email.

Note that the reason I asked if every member has already registered onto an event is that if that’s the case, they will already have an EE_Contact. If you had the WP User integration add-on enabled when they registered their contact will be linked to their User account already…. remember how EE checks for contacts before creating new ones? Well if they already have an EE_Contact that matches and that contact is already linked to a WP User, they only thing you need to do is make sure that when the ‘Group leader’ adds them as a registration, they user the system questions to do so and the details entered match the other WP users details exactly.

Do you feel this is the optimal way, given EE constraints?

Which EE constraints? There’s nothing within EE stopping you from doing what you want to do but you’re going to need custom code to do it.

August 7, 2019 at 12:08 pm

The process flow you described for the creation of EE_Contact is extremely informative. The documentation for this add_on doesn’t seem to explain details like this, where can I go to obtain specific details on EE backend process flow?

Creating an EE_Contact is actually nothing to do with the add-on, its how Event Espresso core works, EE_Registrations are linked to EE_Contacts even without the add-on, the add-on basically uses that relationship to then link the EE_Contact with a user. What it means is if the user has added multiple registrations all using the same details, then they will all be linked to the same contact, once the EE_Contact is linked to the WP_User, all of the registrations linked to the contact are now related to the WP_User. The add-on forms the latter relationship, it does not have anything else to do with EE_Contacts.

We don’t have documentation walking you through the above information, you would need to follow the code.

This is really interesting.. does this mean if the Primary Registrant enters a set of First Name, Last Name, Email that matches that of an existing wp user(as an additional attendee), then it will reference an existing EE_Contact, which is already linked to a WP User(provided the attendee created an account with the add-on enabled)?? I think my work could be done already!

You didn’t answer my question, so I don’t know.

If the WP_User has already registered themselves onto an event, they will have an EE_Contact using the details they input during the registration. If another primary registrant inputs those details into an additional registration, that registration will be liked to the EE_Contact (again I should point out, that details must have matched exactly). So if they already had a contact linked to a WP_User, then yes, that registration is now linked to the user.

To allow this to work (linking additional attendees ->EE_contact-> wp_users), I would only need to use the ‘disable email check’ function? And some validation to match attendee Names + Email to WP user names + email(?).

What is the validation for? If you want to confirm that the additional registrants are always also WP_User, you can, but you’d also need to halt the registration if not to prevent additional EE_Contacts from being created when no match is found. There are examples of doing that (halting the registration process) in the WP User integration add-on, for example with the email check your disabling.

August 7, 2019 at 3:48 pm

It appears to have worked. Entering the exact same details for additional attendees as an existing wp user appears to result in the wp user’s ATT_ID being applied to the additional attendee (who is the same person).

Great 🙂

The validation would be to confirm that additional registrants are also existing wp_users. Do you know if such a function exists already for this?

The WP user integration add-on does exactly that.

Take a look at the verify_user_access() method in EED_WP_Users_SPCO.module.php and work through what the code is doing, it has its own check.

If not, can you direct me to the file containing the relevant fields/functions that handles additional attendees?

We don’t provide support for customizations, so I can’t walk you through how to do that (yes, that includes how to use EE’s own built-in functions) but if you follow the code above you should see how it works.

A hint, it uses get_user_by().