Author Topic: Trying to get query string parms inside civicrm_buildForm hook (Read 1430 times)

SarahG (FountainTribe) · August 21, 2010, 05:16:35 pm

I am implementing the hook "mymodule_civicrm_buildForm" , which is checking that the form is ''CRM_Profile_Form_Edit' and the profile id is 8. ( That part is working fine ). I am using the following URL to reach my profile:
http://devd.mygroup.org/civicrm/profile/edit?reset=1&gid=8&pid=51&eid=3

Note that the last 2 variables in the query string are a participant id ( pid=51 ) and an event id (eid=3 ). I am struggling to access those values in my hook.

How can I get those extra query string values? The URL is built in a custom .tpl file for the user dashboard that will allow a person to mark themselves "attended" after an event.

Thanks,
Sarah

TwoMice · August 21, 2010, 05:34:14 pm

Hi Sarah,

Those values should be available to you in $_GET['pid'] and $_GET['eid']. You could access them directly with that syntax, but this syntax gives you a chance to set a default value:

$myPid = CRM_Utils_Array::value('pid', $_GET, '0'); // setting 0 as default if 'pid' is not found
$myEid = CRM_Utils_Array::value('eid', $_GET, '0'); // setting 0 as default if 'pid' is not found

I notice in existing CiviCRM code, the CRM_Utils_Array::value() is used routinely, even when no default is specified, and as far as I know the former syntax is never used. I'm guessing that's for the sake of consistency more than anything else.

- TM

SarahG (FountainTribe) · August 21, 2010, 09:16:07 pm

The second code sample did the trick, Thanks

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