Integrating Contact Form 7 with a web service and editng validation_error messag

  • I am trying to reconfigure a Contact Form 7 form and I’m having 2 majors barriers. Let me explain the scenario. I am creating a registration form that when submitted will call a web service. That web service will handle the data validation and error messages, including checking to see if the user already exits based on email. The 2 major barriers are:

    1. I need to invalidate the form when I call the hook wpcf7_before_send_mail but I don’t see any examples of how to, or if it is even possible. Since the web service does all the validation I can’t use the typical validation hooks like wpcf7_validate_text* because not all the form fields are text fields and I need to be able to send all the data at once to the web service to either register the user or return an invalid error message.
    2. How can I change the validation_error message that appears at the bottom of the form (or where ever you put the [response] shortcode), rather than the field by field error called “reason?” I need one global error message that I can replace with the response from the web service rather than field by field errors.

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  • Thread Starter UnlockTheMind

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    I have made a basic attempt to reset the status/valid state of the form and the validation_error message on wpcf7_before_send_mail with no success. Any suggestions?

    function wpcf7_do_something (&$WPCF7_ContactForm) {
    $WPCF7_ContactForm['status']='validation_failed';
    $WPCF7_ContactForm['valid']=false;
    $WPCF7_ContactForm['response'] = 'User Exits';
    return $WPCF7_ContactForm;
}
add_action("wpcf7_before_send_mail", "wpcf7_do_something");
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