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October 22, 2019 at 3:50 pm

Here is the code that gets the custom question answer…
// from: https://eventespresso.com/topic/i-need-to-get-custom-questions-answers-from-the-registration-answers-object/
// and: https://gist.github.com/joshfeck/63fe625950c9a71e19be
// more code from: https://eventespresso.com/topic/get-wp_user-id-from-a-transaction/

// store and retrieve the custom question answered with this purchase
// this enables the conversion tracking code to only load on one page
function get_conversion_tracked ($transaction) {
	$conversion_tracked = 0;
	$question_id = 18; // replace with custom question's ID
	// get the attendee to access the custom question
	// that tracks the conversion tracking status (thank you page already loaded)
	$reg = $transaction->get_first_related( 'Registration' );
	if ( $reg instanceof EE_Registration ) {
		$event_id = $reg->event()->ID();
		$contact = $reg->attendee();
		if ( $contact instanceof EE_Attendee ) {
			$att_id = $contact->get( 'ATT_ID' );
		}

		if( $contact instanceof EE_Attendee ) {
			$answer_value = EEM_Answer::instance()->get_var( 
				array(
					array(
						'Registration.ATT_ID' => $att_id,
						'Registration.EVT_ID' => $event_id,
						'QST_ID' => $question_id 
					),
					'order_by' => array(
						'ANS_ID' => 'DESC'
					),
					'limit' => 1
				),
				'ANS_value' 
			);
		}
	}
	return $answer_value;	
}

October 22, 2019 at 10:14 pm

Thanks Josh!

I looked at that thread and it is very informative; also helpful to know that someone else is working on the same issue. Maybe we can come up with some kind of standard way to do this.

The cookie is a good “first line of defense.” It is straightforward and it will work to prevent conversion code running on page reloads in the same browser, but the thank you page is accessible with no cookie – you can copy the URL and load it up in a different browser and it will run the conversion code again. I know it’s not likely, but I want to prevent it altogether.

I am looking for a server-side conversion tracking solution and the only piece missing from an EE centric version of that right now is my understanding of “updates while querying EE models.”

I wonder if you can point me to a code example of updating a custom question answer starting from data that’s available in the thank you page context?

Thanks!

October 23, 2019 at 7:32 am

This looks like exactly what I need. Much simpler! Thank you.

For my current task (protect the Thank You page conversion code from running more than once) I do not need any admin-visible UI so this will work.

I had no idea about the meta feature of the EE models.

There is one drawback of this method (which is acceptable for the code simplicity it offers). Using the extra_meta method, you have to assume that the JS loads, runs, and completes. The meta info makes a nice place to mark the successful emission of the JS code to the page, but it doesn’t guarantee that that JS code runs. The only way to make sure that JS code runs would be to write JS code that calls back to the site and updates it. That’s what I was initially aiming at, but I’d rather keep the code and process simpler.

JS-run-in-browser-guarantee is not a requirement for this current work; I just wanted to make a note of the tradeoff here.

Cheers!