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Validate form fields against databse


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lx

Community Member, 83 Posts

30 November 2012 at 9:39am

hi dross,

do i understand this right, that you are updating the CardNumbers record right in the function checkVoucherandSourceCode() ?
This function was just for validating.
Setting Registered = '1' should be done after the form was successfully sent. So put it in function doRegister()

I just noticed that my validation rule was not complete. It didnt check for Registered = 0, but you added this already to the query.
Btw. what datatype is "Registered"? If you defined it as "Registered" => "Boolean", than you should use
Registered = 1 instead of Registered = '1'

Here some code for the doRegister function:

<?php
  function doRegister($data, $form) {
      
      //Create Member and log them in
      $Member = new UrbanMember();
      $form->saveInto($Member);
      $Member->write();
      $Member->login();
      
      //Findo or create 'user' group
      if(!$userGroup = DataObject::get_one('Group', "Code = 'users'")) {
          $userGroup = new Group();
          $userGroup->Code = "users";
          $userGroup->Title = "Users";
          $userGroup->Write();
          $userGroup->Members()->add($Member);
      }
      
      //Add member to user group
      $userGroup->Members()->add($Member);
      
      // cancel voucher (we dont need to check for an unused voucher here. this has already been checked by the validator)
      $CardNumber = DataObject::get_one("CardNumbers", "VoucherNumber = '".Convert::raw2sql($data['VoucherNumber'])."' AND SourceCode = '".Convert::raw2sql($data['SourceCode'])."'");
      $CardNumber->Registered = 1;
      $CardNumber->write();
      
      // Redirect to profile page
      if($ProfilePage = DataObject::get_one('EditProfilePage')) {
          return Director::redirect($ProfilePage->Link('?success=1'));
      }      
      
   }
?>

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dross

Community Member, 7 Posts

30 November 2012 at 9:45am

Got it. I'm really sort of a beginner so thanks a lot for you help. Works perfectly!

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