FormidablePro – deduct specific amnt of credit per submission / based on a field

Hey

Unfortunately I have never used that form plugin so I do not know if you can hook in. I would suggest you contact the author of the plugin and ask if it is possible for you to do what you want to do and I would be happy to help you out with how you can actually charge / deduct points using myCRED.

Hi,

I’ve been told that is the hook which uses information from data that has been entered, it also contains code snippets.

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Hey.

Based on the documentation here is an example with some comments.

add_action( 'frm_after_create_entry', 'mycred_charge_for_form_submission', 30, 2 );
function mycred_charge_for_form_submission( $entry_id, $form_id ) {
	// Start by making sure myCRED is enabled
	if ( ! function_exists( 'mycred_add' ) ) return;

	// Apply to a specific form only (with ID 1)
	if ( $form_id == 1 && isset( $_POST['formcostfield'] ) ) {

		// First you would need to define in your form
		// how much to give or take for submitting this form
		$cost = $_POST['formcostfield'];

		// If you do not want to charge or add points, you could
		// set this value to zero.
		if ( $cost == 0 ) return;

		// Next get the user ID. If the user is not logged in
		// myCRED will going to be able to award points
		$user_id = get_current_user_id();
		if ( $user_id == 0 ) return;

		// If the value is positive add points
		if ( $cost > 0 )
			mycred_add(
				'form_submission', // required reference
				$user_id, // the user to give poitns to
				$cost, // amount
				'Points for form submission', // log entry
				$form_id // save the form id
			);

		// Else the value is negative so we deduct
		else
			mycred_subtract(
				'form_submission', // required reference
				$user_id, // the user to give poitns to
				$cost, // amount to deduct
				'Points for form submission', // log entry
				$form_id // save the form id
			);
	}
}

The above code would go in your themes functions.php file and you would need to setup your forms to have a custom field which holds the amount a form “costs”.

You can then charge this amount or give this amount to the user each time a form is submitted.

You can further expand the above example by for example also checking to see if the user has enough points to submit the form however this hook fires first when the entry has been created so by the time it fires it is to late to stop it.

If this is a feature you want, consider creating a conditional check before the form is submitted. So before you insert the form on your site for a user to fill out and submit, if they do not have enough points, then i.e. block them seeing the form.

It all comes down to how you want your system to work.

Brilliant thanks for this, I’ll test and play around with that later today and see how it could be done with the conditional logic.

Thank you

Hi Gabriel,

Thanks for you code given above, I appreciate it.

I’ve discovered this job manager plugin it seems to be easier to use this than to create mine from scratch.
Would you be able to do the same with with these hooks – found in job-submit.php?

Thank you