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I'm trying to add some custom validation to Civi Event registration form (in Wordpress, Civi is properly integrated); something to validate if a non-member has tried to get member pricing for given event.

I created a custom WP template that is a "man-in-the-middle", where it pulls down (via HTTP GET) the current form, generated by Civi, then changes the action of the form to post to the custom template, does the extra validation, and then either prints out errors, or passes the POST to Civi, via the original form action attribute and PHP cURL.

I've done all of that, except the response I get back from Civi is: "you don't have the permission to execute this URL", but if I copy and paste it into a new browser tab, the page shows. I'm not logged in, so I can't figure out what would be different between an anonymous HTTP request to Civi and one made by the server it's running on (via cURL).

So please, I'd greatly appreciate any help you could offer, since I've tried just about everything else I could think of. I've made sure anonymous users can access and register for events (on the Civi WP Admin page), and have the following options for cURL:


$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, '.cookie');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER,$get);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $action);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PORT, (strpos($action, 'https://') !== false ? 443 : 80));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post );


Here's the URL that the aforementioned POSTs to - http://new.go-gba.org/event/?page=CiviCRM&q=civicrm/event/register.

Please advise - thanks so much!

We're on Civi 4.3.4 and WP 3.6.1

Thanks for replying.

I chose to go the cURL route because I couldn't access Civi functions from other pages in Wordpress, even after manually including ABSPATH . /wp-content/plugins/civicrm/civicrm.php

If there's a less-painful way to get that to work, I'm game.

Perhaps you could help me get that up and running? I'd certainly appreciate it

native civicrm extensions work on wordpress and they can contains hook.

Check out civix. will make it easier for you to start, and look at existing simple extensions

extensions can be lightweight and civix gives you most of the scaffolding.

you can proceed the way you want (in WP template), but then you are venturing in areas that we dont typically do stuff in and might have to fiddle with it till u get it working

lobo