How to conditionally make booking forms hidden

[CYCOffice]

Hello,

I need to make some booking forms accessible to members of my site and some accessible to the general public.

How do you recommend I add conditional logic to hide the form if the event is “members only”?

Thanks for any advice.

[Stephen Harris]

Hi Louise,

You’ll want to make two changes. One to the booking form template (templates/eo-booking-form.php) to hide the booking form. There is already logic in that template relating to whether a form should be displayed, so you can adapt it there. How to check whether the user is actually a member will depend on the membership plug-in you are using.

Secondly, as a ‘security’ measure, you’ll want to check when the booking form is being processed that the current user is not a member. While the booking form wouldn’t have been displayed a user could still making a booking with an appropriately crafted POST request.

To prevent this, just add the following code, adapted for your membership plug-in.

 add_action( 'eventorganiser_validate_booking_form_submission', function( $form ) {
     if ( /* user is not a member */ ) {
           $form->add_error( 'members-only', 'You must be a member to place a booking' );
     }
 } );

I would recommend implementing this first, so that you can easily test it before hiding the booking form.

[CYCOffice]

Thank you Stephen,

I can now see how I can hide the form.

How do you recommend I configure “member only” or “General Public” on an event by event basis. This needs to be something that a person creating a new event can set.

For example, is there a way to add a checkbox to the event setup box to select it as a “members only” event?

[Stephen Harris]

Hi Louise,

You can get the event ID from the form as follows:

 $event_id = $form->get( 'event_id' );

The event ID is the post ID (an event is of ‘event’ type). So you can do one of two things:

1. Use a custom taxonomy (or even event tags / categories) as a way of marking an event as members only or not.
2. Use a custom field (optionally you can create your own metabox).

Both 1 and 2 can be done with the standard WordPress API.

[CYCOffice]

Thanks again,

I tried editing a child template version of eo-booking-form.php to add a test for if the Member Only category was set. but it never goes to the echo statement below.
I must be doing something wrong, sorry, but still feeling my way with php.

        if ( !is_user_logged_in() && in_category('Member Only') ) {
            echo "Member only event - login to make a booking";
        }
        else { //logged in or "public event"
            //Display the booking form
            ?>
            <form method="post" action="<?php echo get_permalink().'#eo-bookings';?>" id="eo-booking-form" autocomplete="off">

                <?php 
                    //Display custom fields
                    $this->display_form_fields();
                ?>

            </form>

[Stephen Harris]

in_category() is for posts not events. You want:

 is_object_in_term( get_the_ID(), 'event-category', 'Member Only' );

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