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How do I validate values being entered in the New Individual, or when a contact is edited?

I can get the validate hook to be called and validate the values, but when it returns to the edit screen there is no indication of the error messages that were sent unlike when using the validate hook with a profile.

Is there something different I need to do with the standard create/edit form for civicrm?

Here you go. It works fine on a custom profile.

function bpmccain_hooks_civicrm_validate( $formName, &$fields, &$files, &$form ) {
if ($formName == "CRM_Contact_Form_Contact"){
foreach($fields['phone'] as $key => $values) {
$checkPhone = check_phone($values['phone']);
if ( $checkPhone == FALSE) {
$errors['phone'][$key] = ts( 'Please enter a valid phone number' );
}
}
}
return empty( $errors ) ? true : $errors;
}

function check_phone($phone) {
$number = preg_replace('/[^\d]/', '', $phone);
if (strlen($number) == 10) {
return "(" . substr($number, 0, 3) . ") " . substr($number, 3, 3) . '-' . substr($number, 6);
}
else if ( (strlen($number) == 11) && (substr($number,0,1) == 1) ){
return "(" . substr($number, 1, 3) . ") " . substr($number, 4, 3) . '-' . substr($number, 7);
}
else { return false; }
}



I've already done that, and it shows up as 'CRM_Contact_Form_Contact'

I also know that the code is running, and that $checkPhone is evaluating as FALSE, as I have put an exit statement in there as a test.