Let the booking manager book more guests than configured

I figure it out by myself.

I add an action to to the “rtb_validate_booking_submission”-action-hook.

On this hook I check if the request is coming from the admin site and if so I’m searching for the field party. If I found it, I will unset it, because the validation error occurs as result of an wanted overbooking and therefore it isn’t an error which should prevent the booking from being saved.

That the code I used to archieve it in my plugin:

add_action( ‘rtb_validate_booking_submission’, ‘mjm_validate_admin_fields’, 100);
function mjm_validate_admin_fields($booking){
// Only validate in the admin
if ( !$_POST[‘action’] || $_POST[‘action’] !== ‘admin_booking_request’ ) {
return;
}
if(is_array($booking->validation_errors) && count($booking->validation_errors) > 0){
for($i=0; $i < count($booking>validation_errors); $i++){
if($booking->validation_errors[$i][‘field’] == ‘party’){
unset($booking->validation_errors[$i]);
}
}
}
return;
}

The optional parameter $priority is set to 100, so other functions will be called first.

@see https://developer.www.ads-software.com/reference/functions/add_action/

Feel free to use it on your own without any guarantee.

Kind regards

mumbomedia

Excellent! That’s how I’d recommend doing it. Thanks for reporting back.

Wrap that up into a little plugin to make sure it will work whenever the client switches or updates their theme.

@natewr

You’re right.
I’ve forgot to mentioned it.
For me I have add this functionality to my existing plugin.

Hello NateWr & mumbomedia,
Glad I found this but I’m not really sure where to add it. Can you confirm if I need to add this on the AdminBookings.class file inside the public function validate_admin_fields( $booking ) {} function?
Hoping to hear from any of the two of you soon.
Thank you,
Benessa

• This reply was modified 7 years, 4 months ago by benzdumol.

Hi @benzdumol,

I rolled this into a little snippet you can use a separate plugin:

https://gist.github.com/NateWr/d24f690c90bc6468b3063bc26607ce4f

To use it, click the Download button at the top, unpack the .zip, and upload the .php file to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory. You can then activate it from the Plugins list in your WordPress admin area.

Hi @benzdumol,

sorry for the late reply.
I also would recommend using a plugin.
You could install NateWr plugin from the post above simply by upload it via the WP Backend.
@see https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/step-by-step-guide-to-install-a-wordpress-plugin-for-beginners/

If you have any question feel free to ask.

Kind regards

mumbomedia

Hi @mumbomedia,

Thank you for your response. I already used @natewr’s Allow Admin Override of Party Limits for Restaurant Reservations plugin so that the Admin user can book without party size limitation. However, I have another question and it’s about Max Capacity for for Every Location. I already started a thread here: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/max-capacity-for-restaurant-reservations-for-every-location/. It will be very helpful for me if you can check it and if you have an answer it will solve my problem.

Thank you so much Mumbomedia,
Benessa

• This reply was modified 7 years, 3 months ago by benzdumol.