User Registration with PayPal: charged on username/email duplicate

  • Resolved zkrahn

    (@zkrahn)


    3 years, 5 months ago

    Hello,

    I am trying to make a user registration form, which requires payment for the registration.

    The issue I am having is that the username/email doesn’t seem to be checked for duplicates until after the PayPal payment goes through. This means that if a user enters a username or email which is already in use, they will be charged in spite of the submission being in error and no account will be created.

    I thought I had previously had this working, by setting Method to “AJAX”, Validation to “On Submit” and enabling “Enable inline validation (as user types)”. However, I recently tested it and this seems to not be working.

    I am an experienced programmer, so if I need to write some code to do so I will happily do so. If there is a filter hook for checking validation, which is fired before the PayPal payment, then I could simply check the email/username there and return invalid if they are a duplicate email or username.

    Thank you for your support!

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  • Plugin Support Nebu John – WPMU DEV Support

    (@wpmudevsupport14)

    Hi @zkrahn,

    Thank you for bringing this to our notice, I have added this to the backlogs of the plugin as a bug. A fix for this will be rolled out in one of our upcoming updates.

    Meanwhile, can you please try the following code as a workaround?

    function forminator_pre_create_paypal_order() {
	$body           = trim( file_get_contents( "php://input" ) );
	$data           = json_decode( $body, true );
	$form_fields    = null;
	$username_field = 'text-1';
	$email_field    = 'email-1';
	$errors         = array();
	if ( ! isset( $data[ 'form_fields' ] ) || empty( $data[ 'form_fields' ] ) ) {
		wp_send_json_error( esc_html__( 'From data is missing.' ) );
	}
	parse_str( $data[ 'form_fields' ], $form_fields );
	if ( username_exists( $form_fields[ $username_field ] ) ) {
		$errors[] = esc_html__( 'Username exists already.' );
	}
	if ( email_exists( $form_fields[ $email_field ] ) ) {
		$errors[] = esc_html__( 'Email exists already.' );
	}
	if ( ! empty( $errors ) ) {
		wp_send_json_error( implode( '<br />', $errors ) );
	}
}
add_action( 'wp_ajax_forminator_pp_create_order', 'forminator_pre_create_paypal_order', 9 );
add_action( 'wp_ajax_nopriv_forminator_pp_create_order', 'forminator_pre_create_paypal_order', 9 );

    You can add the code as a mu-plugin. Reff: https://wpmudev.com/docs/using-wordpress/installing-wordpress-plugins/#installing-mu-plugins

    Kind Regards,
    Nebu John

    Thread Starter zkrahn

    (@zkrahn)

    Hello @wpmudevsupport14,

    Thank you so much for your very quick reply. I have added the above code(though to my functions.php rather than as a mu-plugin), and it works perfectly!

    I will be watching for the next update so I can see when I can remove this code. But would you also be able to reply to this thread so I’m made aware, or is there any other way to be automatically notified?

    Again, thanks so much for always being so quick to reply to support threads!

    Plugin Support Patrick – WPMU DEV Support

    (@wpmudevsupport12)

    Hi @zkrahn

    I hope you are doing well.

    I am afraid due to the number of tickets we can’t notify the users of updates, however, we add the list of fixes on our changelogs: https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/forminator/#developers

    The 1.14.12 is already close to release so I am afraid the fix isn’t included, but since it is an action won’t cause any issues keeping the code if the fixed version is released.

    Let us know if you have any additional question.
    Best Regards
    Patrick Freitas

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