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I'm using 4 distinct profiles for the Drupal registration page, and have implemented hook_civicrm_validate() so I can do a bit of custom validation on the fields.

The hook gets called, but it gets called 3 times.  At first, I thought it was getting called for each profile group, but AFAICT, the $form object is either exactly the same (as is the field list), and as a result, I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do in each of the three invocations.

Each time:

• The form name is CRM_Profile_Form_Dynamic
• The $fields param looks exactly the same to me
• I can't see any difference in the $form object either

I'm assuming that it doesn't cause any harm if it gets called 3 times, but that I should only run my validation once.  But who knows?

This is running against 3.1.4 right now.

I'm guessing that if I return errors, I'll end up returning the errors 3 times, which is going to look kind of silly.

Is there any real difference between the 3 invocations?