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I want to make same validating or redirecting on contacts editing page, I want some kinds of contacts doesn't allow specific users to edit.  Is there a hook to do this? Thanks!

I've read that page, there's an example, there's no form_id on the contact add page, How can I know the form name?  Thanks

function MODULENAME_civicrm_validateForm( $formName, &$fields, &$files, &$form, &$errors ) {
    // sample implementation
    if ( $formName == 'CRM_Contact_Form_Contact' ) {
       // ensure that external identifier is present and valid
       $externalID = CRM_Utils_Array::value( 'external_identifier', $fields );
       if ( ! $externalID ) {
          $errors['external_identifier'] = ts( 'External Identifier is a required field' );
       } else if ( ! myCustomValidatorFunction( $externalID ) ) {
          $errors['external_identifier'] = ts( 'External Identifier is not valid' );
       }
    }
    return;
 
}

Hey Rogical,

How can I know the form name?

The form name == the class that builds the form - the one that extends CiviCRM's base form class.

The buildForm hook looks quite similar and is called on every form load so what I normally do is add a print_r($formName); to (the beginning) of a pre-process hook and it should print it on the screen somewhere.

The other thing you can do is inspect the template since that normally prints the path of the template that is used, which in the vast majority of cases, has a corresponding php file which contains the form class.