Question

I’ve made an extra custom field called esrnumber. I’ve added a onUserBeforeSave()function to the php file within the plugin. This is supposed to take the esrnumber from my custom field as well as the name from the registration form, check a database, and return true if they match. Thus allowing the user to register.

The problem is that i can’t seem to get the field values from the form into this php script. Below is my code.

function onUserBeforeSave($user, $isnew, $new){
//sql code removed for example
    $foundesr = false;
    if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'GET' && isset($_GET['esrnumber'])) {
    $test = $_GET['esrnumber'];
    } else if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST' && isset($_POST['esrnumber']))         {
        $test = $_POST['esrnumber'];
    } else {
        $test = "booo";
    }
   if($foundesr == false){
        JError::raiseWarning(1000, JText::_('There is a problem with your ESR number, ' . JRequest::getVar('username') . JRequest::getVar('esrnumber') . JRequest::getVar('jform_username') . $test . 'it does not match that name in our records.'));
        return false;
    }
    return true;
}

As you can see most of that is unnecessary, I’ve just tried several different methods to retrieve the value from the registration form fields, everyone of them returns empty. Where am i going wrong? How can i simply get the values from my form into this method?

Here’s the HTML code Joomla generates for the form (asfaik this is all default stuff)

<div class="registration">
<form id="member-registration" action="/index.php/component/users/?task=registration.register" method="post" class="form-validate">
            <fieldset>
                <legend>User Registration</legend>
                <dl>
                                <dt>
                <span class="spacer"><span class="before"></span><span class="text"><label id="jform_spacer-lbl" class=""><strong class="red">*</strong> Required field</label></span><span class="after"></span></span>                                    </dt>
            <dd>&#160;</dd>
                                            <dt>
                <label id="jform_name-lbl" for="jform_name" class="hasTip required" title="Name::Enter your full name">Name:<span class="star">&#160;*</span></label>                                   </dt>
            <dd><input type="text" name="jform[name]" id="jform_name" value="[e-mail]" class="required" size="30"/></dd>
                                            <dt>
                <label id="jform_username-lbl" for="jform_username" class="hasTip required" title="Username::Enter your desired user name">Username:<span class="star">&#160;*</span></label>                                   </dt>
            <dd><input type="text" name="jform[username]" id="jform_username" value="[e-mail]" class="validate-username required" size="30"/></dd>
                                            <dt>
                <label id="jform_password1-lbl" for="jform_password1" class="hasTip required" title="Password::Enter your desired password - Enter a minimum of 4 characters">Password:<span class="star">&#160;*</span></label>                                    </dt>
            <dd><input type="password" name="jform[password1]" id="jform_password1" value="" autocomplete="off" class="validate-password required" size="30"/></dd>
                                            <dt>
                <label id="jform_password2-lbl" for="jform_password2" class="hasTip required" title="Confirm Password::Confirm your password">Confirm Password:<span class="star">&#160;*</span></label>                                    </dt>
            <dd><input type="password" name="jform[password2]" id="jform_password2" value="" autocomplete="off" class="validate-password required" size="30"/></dd>
                                            <dt>
                <label id="jform_email1-lbl" for="jform_email1" class="hasTip required" title="Email Address::Enter your email address">Email Address:<span class="star">&#160;*</span></label>                                 </dt>
            <dd><input type="text" name="jform[email1]" class="validate-email required" id="jform_email1" value="[e-mail]" size="30"/></dd>
                                            <dt>
                <label id="jform_email2-lbl" for="jform_email2" class="hasTip required" title="Confirm email Address::Confirm your email address">Confirm email Address:<span class="star">&#160;*</span></label>                                   </dt>
            <dd><input type="text" name="jform[email2]" class="validate-email required" id="jform_email2" value="[e-mail]" size="30"/></dd>
                                                                            </dl>
    </fieldset>
                <fieldset>
                <legend>User ESR Profile</legend>
                <dl>
                                <dt>
                <label id="jform_esrprofile_esrnumber-lbl" for="jform_esrprofile_esrnumber" class=" required">ESR Number<span class="star">&#160;*</span></label>                                   </dt>
            <dd><input type="text" name="jform[esrprofile][esrnumber]" id="jform_esrprofile_esrnumber" value="" class="required"/></dd>
                            </dl>
    </fieldset>
        <div>
        <button type="submit" class="validate">Register</button>
        or          <a href="/" title="Cancel">Cancel</a>
        <input type="hidden" name="option" value="com_users" />
        <input type="hidden" name="task" value="registration.register" />
        <input type="hidden" name="b44564159b9c7ebe3b7caf93cc5ce8de" value="1" />       </div>
</form>

I personally never called that new method i made, i just created the method and Joomla seems to automatically call it upon submitting the form.

Cheers.

Answer 1

SOLVED. If anybody finds this thread and needs to know, this is how i did it in the onUserBeforeSave($user, $isnew, $new) function.

JArrayHelper::getValue($new, 'name', 0, 'STRING')

Gives you your variable. Just change where it says name to get whichever user details you want. To get the ESR number (my custom field) i had to do this:

        foreach ($new['esrprofile'] as $k => $v) {
             $esrnumber = $v;
        }

There’s probably a more efficient way of getting that esr number out of that array seeing as how i think there’s only one instance of the number in there, but this works for now.