Ask to verify email?

[Dan Skinner]

Following an event that we’ve just held, we heard from a few too many people that they hadn’t received the confirmation email. This could obviously have been for a number of reasons, but as I’m not insisting that they register an account, I’d like to be sure that they’ve at least entered a valid email address.

Is there a way of adding a second ‘verify Email’ field to a booking form that won’t allow people to submit the booking until the 2 emails entered match?

[Stephen Harris]

Hi Dan,

As you’re aware the plug-in doesn’t add a second, ‘confirm your e-mail’ field (perhaps it should), but you can do it with the following:

function my_add_element( $form, $event_id ){    

    //Get existing email field
    $email = $form->get_element( 'email' );
    if( !$email ){
         return;
    }

    //Create element to add to the field
    $element = EO_Booking_Form_Element_Factory::create( array(
         'type'     => 'email',
         'id'       => '_confirm_email', //a unique ID
         'required' => 1, //make this field required
         'label'    => 'Please confirm your e-mail'
   ) );

   //Add the field element, immediately below $email field
   $form->add_element( $element, array(
       'at' => $email->get( 'position' ) + 1, 
       'parent' => $email->get_parent()
   ) );
}
add_action( 'eventorganiser_get_event_booking_form', 'my_add_element', 10, 2 );

Code to validate confirmed e-mail address

function my_validate_element( $form ){

     $email= $form->get_element( 'email' );    
     $email2 = $form->get_element( '_confirm_email' );

     if( $email && $email->get_value() !== $email2->get_value() ){
           $email2->add_error( 'email-mismatch', "Emails do not match." );
     }

}
add_filter( 'eventorganiser_validate_booking_form_submission', 'my_validate_element', 10 );

[Dan Skinner]

Fab – thanks for the code. Great to know that this kind of stuff can be supported.

Where are these 2 sections augmented to?

NB. I do not currently have templates enabled.

Cheers,

Dan

[Stephen Harris]

Ideally in a utility plugin, but it will work in theme’s functions.php ( See http://wp-event-organiser.com/blog/tutorial/where-should-i-put-code-from-the-tutorials/ for details).

It doesn’t require the plugin templates to be enabled.

[Dan Skinner]

Fantastic – works like a charm 🙂

Many thanks Stephen.

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