Using a Related Individual to create the user

@fullworks I don’t think there’s anything preventing the Household from being synced to a WordPress User as it is. There’s a “Synchronize Individuals only” option on the CWMS settings page – have you unchecked that and tried what you want to achieve (on a dev site of course)?

@fullworks Ah, hmm, I think I misread your question:

One thought is when creating the WP User object that there is a simple look up of the Head of Household to get the email.

Yes, that seems sensible. Filters/actions I’d look at are:

* civi_wp_member_sync_auto_create_wp_user to prevent Individuals and Organizations from being synced
* civi_wp_member_sync_before_insert_user to inspect the Contact prior to creating a WordPress User

However it looks like you want to amend the Contact data before the User is created… for which there isn’t a filter. If that’s the case, I can add one.

There may also be a CiviCRM hook that allows the data returned from an API call to be amended before being returned – hook_civicrm_apiWrappers looks like a good candidate – so you could consider amending all Household queries to include the email address of the Head of Household.

OK I have nearly a solution in public function civi_get_contact_by_contact_id

which returns the CiviCrm Contact data

I look up the relationship and switch the contact data

It nearly works perfectly except Roles – interestingly the ‘expired’ role is assigned correctly but the ‘current’ role ends up as none

public function civi_get_contact_by_contact_id( $contact_id ) {

		// Kick out if no CiviCRM.
		if ( ! civi_wp()->initialize() ) return false;

		// Bail if we don't get a valid contact ID.
		if ( empty( $contact_id ) OR ! is_numeric( $contact_id ) ) return false;

		// Get all contact data.
		$params = array(
			'version' => 3,
			'contact_id' => $contact_id,
		);

		// Use API.
		$contact_data = civicrm_api( 'contact', 'get', $params );
		
		// Find the Head of Household contact ID

		$relationship = civicrm_api3( 'Relationship', 'get', array(
			'sequential' => 1,
			'return' => ["contact_id_a"],
			'contact_id_b' => $contact_id,
			'relationship_type_id' => 7,
			'is_active' => 1,
		));
		
		// Now switch the contact data.
		
		$params = array(
			'version' => 3,
			'contact_id' => $relationship['values'][0]['contact_id_a'],
		);

		// Use API.
		$contact_data = civicrm_api( 'contact', 'get', $params );

		// Bail if we get any errors.

This hook_civicrm_apiWrappers may be the right way, and whilst I have written CivCRM extension I’m a WordPress plugin developer and switching between the two concepts I find really hard ??

@fullworks No need for an extension: see how this plugin hooks into CiviCRM as an example.

I see where you’re going with your code – but it’s not wise to alter the plugin code directly. That’s why I pointed you to the filter and action. As I said, I’ll add a filter so that the Contact data can be amended before the WordPress User is created.

@fullworks I’ve added the filter to the development repo:

https://github.com/christianwach/civicrm-wp-member-sync/blob/master/includes/civi-wp-ms-users.php#L585-L593

Use that to filter the Contact data instead of directly altering the plugin.

Cheers, Christian

Thanks,

I was going to do a pull request with a filter in place once I worked out if the strategy works you saved me the task.

Alan

@fullworks It’ll be present in the next release, but it sounds like you know what you’re doing. If you share your code here, then there’s a trail left for others who might want to do something similar.

Cheers, Christian

Final code here

https://github.com/alanef/civi-member-sync-custom/blob/master/civi-member-sync-custom.php

@fullworks Looks okay to me.

Thanks, it works for at least manual bulk creation.

Wasn’t 100% sure if you used display_name or sort_name in generating the user names, so I was lazy and did both rather than reading the code.

Also, not sure of what happens yet ( i.e. haven’t tested ) if I change the email on the related member in CiviCRM.

@fullworks That would need separate handling. Look at the code in CiviCRM WordPress Profile Sync to see how you can keep a Contact’s details in sync with a WordPress User’s details.

Thanks,

Strange that a relatively simple job always ends up being so much more ??

While I have your expertise on tap – the ultimate goal here is to have the hardcopy magazine available for paid up members.

So obviously members sync will allow me to have roles that can be used for protection rules.

In terms of protection ( i.e. only seeing the magazine & archive when logged ) I was planning to custom code, as it isn’t that complex – but that said there are many plugins that do similar – any that you would use?

While I have your expertise on tap

@fullworks FWIW, the plugins I write are free, not the support or professional advice! But anyway… I’d use Groups for this.

Thanks and understood.

Does the donate button go to you directly?