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I've had a look through the available hooks here but cannot see anything that might allow me hook into when paypal standard returns a success payment made.

I know waiting for the user to come back to the site may mean the event is never fired if they do not come back to site after payment made and just close the window. This is no big deal.

Another option would be to hook into when they click the "confirm" button to go to the paypal log in screen. However, I do not want to assume they will make a payment.

For what I need it would be better to miss users who do not come back to the site, than to assume users pay who do not.


Is there an event for what I need, or does the return url have a form name which fires the buildform / postprocess events?

Mumble to oneself and the murky waters clear.

Incase anyone finds this post who is also bad at skim reading the documention

hook_civicrm_post( $op, $objectName, $objectId, &$objectRef )
$op - operation being performed with CiviCRM object. Can have the following values:
        'view' : The CiviCRM object is going to be displayed
        'create' : The CiviCRM object is created (or contacts are being added to a group)
        'edit' : The CiviCRM object is edited
        'delete' : The CiviCRM object is being deleted (or contacts are being removed from a group)

        'trash': The contact is being moved to trash (Contact objects only)
        'restore': The contact is being restored from trash (Contact objects only)

    $objectName - can have the following values:
        'Individual'
        'Household'
        'Organization'
        'Grant'
        'Group'
        'GroupContact'
        'Relationship'
        'Activity'
        'Contribution'
        'Profile' (while this is not really an object, people have expressed an interest to perform an action when a profile is created/edited)
        'Membership'
        'Participant'
        'UFMatch' (when an object is linked to a CMS user record, at the request of GordonH. A UFMatch object is passed for both the pre and post hooks)
        'Event'
        'EntityTag'
        'Tag'

        PledgePayment
        ContributionRecur
        Pledge

Ok so I have an actual question, rather than talking to myself into solutions


From the activity obj above, how can I get the db event object. I had a look at activity type_id, but I do not really understand what it is doing, as from phpmyadmin:

activity_type_id FK to civicrm_option_value.id, that has to be valid, registered activity type.

Ok, so off to civicrm_option_value I go, and row with id=5 has a label "fax". My event isn't a fax machine so I guess I have some fatal misunderstanding here

CRM_Activity_DAO_Activity Object
(
    [id] => 2
    [source_contact_id] => 1
    [source_record_id] => 1
    [activity_type_id] => 5
    [subject] => Event name - December 20th, 2012  4:28 PM - Attendee - Pending from incomplete transaction
    [activity_date_time] => 20120614185616
    [duration] =>
    [location] =>
    [phone_id] =>
    [phone_number] =>
    [details] =>
    [status_id] => 2
    [priority_id] => 2
    [parent_id] =>
    [is_test] => 0
    [medium_id] =>
    [is_auto] =>
    [relationship_id] =>
    [is_current_revision] =>
    [original_id] =>
    [result] =>
    [is_deleted] =>
    [campaign_id] =>
    [engagement_level] =>
    [weight] =>
    [_DB_DataObject_version] => 1.8.12
    [__table] => civicrm_activity
    [N] => 0
    [_database_dsn] =>
    [_database_dsn_md5] => 8a633d47982y3riuhf57a4
    [_database] => dbname
    [_query] => Array
        (
            [condition] =>
            [group_by] =>
            [order_by] =>
            [having] =>
            [limit_start] =>
            [limit_count] =>
            [data_select] => *
        )

    [_DB_resultid] =>
    [_resultFields] =>
    [_link_loaded] =>
    [_join] =>
    [_lastError] =>
)