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Hi, I am trying to do something very simple yet getting frustrated.

http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/CiviCRM+hook+specification#CiviCRMhookspecification-hookcivicrmpost

have the snippet for setting and getting custom fields and I followed them to a TEE.


Currently, I am using hook_civicrm_post with op = 'create' and objectName = 'Contribution' to capture some of the contribution information and insert them into another table. At the same time, I also wanted to get a custom field value that was from the contribution form as well.

The custom field id is 4.

So I did
$params = array('entityID' => $objectRef->contact_id, 'custom_4' => 1);

$values = CRM_Core_BAO_CustomValueTable::getValues($params);

It always come up and tell me

Array
(
    [is_error] => 1
    [error_message] => No values found for the specified entity ID and custom field(s).
)

So I looked into 'CRM/Core/BAO/CustomValueTable.php';

it was calling another function to get the custom field value:

getEntityValues

So I called
$values = CRM_Core_BAO_CustomValueTable::getEntityValues($objectRef->contact_id, null, array(4));

I also got an empty array in return.


I have tried to use the $objectRef->id instead of $objectRef->contact_id for the entityID, assuming that because the custom field group is made for contributions, however, it did not work either.


I have assumed that since I'm using the hook_civicrm_post

The contribution data as well as other form data should already be saved into the database and I have been able to get all the data from the Contribution object but not from the custom field.



Any help would be appreciated!

xcf33: Can you point me to code snippet you are talking about... I need to figure out how to add/update info in custom fields using API.

Thanks