eo-bookee-details "Last Name" (required field)

[jasonb]

Hi Stephen,

Sorry, another problem I’m facing… How do I correctly implement “Last Name” (lname) within eo-bookee-details to be a required field? The same as “First Name” and “E-mail”. There does not appear to be any native option/setting to implement. I would appreciate your advice on how to correctly implement (or hack… :o) ), so I can manage throughout future versions etc…

Many Thanks

Jason

[Stephen Harris]

Hi Jason,

Not so much a hack as using the available booking form API (which is currently being documented). It uses the eventorganiser_validate_booking_submission hook which runs after a booking is submitted by the user, and is being checked for errors. If $errors contains any errors, the user is returned to the form with these displayed:

function _my_validate_booking_submission_conditions( $input, $form, $errors ){

    //Names and email don't currently appear in $input.
    $lname = isset( $_POST['lname'] ) ? $_POST['lname'] : '';

    //If user is not logged and last name is not provdied, add an error
    if( !is_user_logged_in() && !$lname ){

        //If any errors are added to $errors, it will return the user to the booking form
        //with the errors displayed:
        $errors->add( 'missing_last_name',  'Please provide a last name' );
    }

    //You must return what you've been given!
    return $input;
}

add_filter( 'eventorganiser_validate_booking_submission', '_my_validate_booking_submission_conditions', 11, 3 );

As always, best use this in a utility plug-in, but it will work in your theme’s functions.php (wp-event-organiser.com/blog/tutorial/where-should-i-put-code-from-the-tutorials/)

Hope that helps!

• This reply was modified 10 years, 5 months ago by  Stephen Harris. Reason: Corrected error

[Jan Wildefeld]

I have a similar problem. The provided solution posted above makes the field “last name” a required field but it doesn’t indicate it with a star character ‘*’

Is there a solution to add span class “required eo-booking-form-required” to the field ‘last name’

Thanks in advance
Jan

[Stephen Harris]

Hi Jan,

Currently the only way of doing this is to copy the eo-booking-form.php template into your theme and edit it. Specifically, it contains a call to eo_signup_form() (which can be found in includes / booking-form-handler.php). If you replace eo_signup_form() with the (edited) mark-up of eo_signup_form(), then you can add the necessary class and *.

At some point, these ‘sign-up’ fields will may become part of the customiser (with appropriate checks to ensure backwards compatibility).

[Stephen Harris]

Anyone following this please note there was an error in my original post which has now been fixed.

Changes:

• add_action was changed to add_filter – (but this doesn’t actually matter)
• return $input was added — this is the important change.

If you’re running the old code you’ll probably experience a white-screen, or, in debug mode, a message along the lines of “Invalid argument supplied for foreach() “.

Apologies for the error

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