Support

September 15, 2020 at 8:12 pm

Tony – This is somewhat related to other support topics you have been helping me with over the last 2 weeks. I discovered something new… On my Registration page when the user hits the Submit button I need to do some back-end PHP processing including calling an external web service method on another system.

To do this I have created my own plugin. In my PHP file I have added a new action that allows me to do additional submit processing like this:

add_action(‘AHEE__EE_Single_Page_Checkout__process_attendee_information__end’,’my_custom_submit_action’, 10, 2);
function my_custom_submit_action( $spco, $data)
{
// Do a bunch of stuff including a web service call, field error checking, etc.
}

SO now a user goes to the registration form, fills out all of the fields, but puts invalid input in for one of the fields. The user hits the submit button. My custom action (above) is called, the error is detected in my code, and I call the EE_Error:add_error method to display the error.

The user corrects the field in error and hits the submit button again. What I am seeing is that my custom action IS NOT being called again at all. It’s only called the first time. I have verified this with debug statements in the code. Instead EE is taking a different path and displaying the Thank You page instead which creates big issues for me.

I need for my custom submit action to be called EVERY TIME the user hits the Submit button on the Registration page otherwise a bunch of things don’t work right, some of which you have been trying to help me with (redirects, etc.).

Can you tell me why my custom submit action is only being called the first time by the EE code, but not again on a subsequent Submit? And can this be fixed to work the way I need it to work? Modify a template, whatever…

THANKS IN ADVANCE!!! – Mark