Custom auto action on after User Save

Basically, what I want to do is after a user has been registered and saved, there needs to be a call to a "function" that will create an invitation for a user and a bit more processing of other things.

You would just execute that function in your Code action with method set to PHP then.

I have a PHP function that I have created within a standalone file, xxxxxx.php located within a specific directory that I'd like to call using a CB Auto Actions plugin. I was thinking this would be the best place to call the function, because the only other way to do this would be to hack the Joomla or CB code to call my function after the user gets saved in Community Builder. Hope this makes more sense.

You don't need to hack anything. Just do a PHP require_once to the absolute path of your PHP file then execute your function as it'll be included into the scope. Example as follows.


The above would do a require_once starting at Joomlas root. Assuming your file is in Joomlas file structure you'd just path to it and replace PATH_TO_FILE_HERE with the path. If it's outside of Joomla then you'd do a standard PHP require_once to its absolute path as needed.

Thanks, krileon, just what I was looking for!

If I'm using the "After User Confirm" trigger to perform the PHP (eval) method code, can I use the following syntax to retrieve a single id value from a non-CB table:

I can execute this code from the backend of the CB Auto Actions, but for some reason it's not triggering when a user confirms their email. I've tested it and it seems to fail when trying to retrieve the id shown above. I have this action set to "User" and not "Specific", not sure if that may have something to do with it. And the Custom ACL is set to everybody.

Cheers!

Leave User as Automatic. In most cases you will not need to change this. Substitutions will work in your PHP code and the substitutions take place before the PHP processes. If you're trying to use substitutions in your included PHP then no that won't work; just add the PHP directly to the action.

Triggering an action directly fires the action immediately and in most cases not on a user. To properly test your action you need to fire the trigger it's dependent on. In your case you need to do test confirmations. Your code however is just a select query so I've no idea what you're expecting it to do.

Leaving user as automatic solved the issue, krileon, thanks a lot!
Much appreciated:)
Roy

Hi krileon,

I just have a quick question regarding using CB v2.04 with PHP version 5.3.29. I know CB 2.04 requires at least PHP 5.3.3, but currently we have a "test" site that has this kind of environment and I've installed the latest CB on this environment and all seems to be working. Is there anything that may not work if we do not upgrade our PHP version as doing the PHP upgrade on this server could be problematic for other things.

Thanks again,
Roy

I just have a quick question regarding using CB v2.04 with PHP version 5.3.29. I know CB 2.04 requires at least PHP 5.3.3, but currently we have a "test" site that has this kind of environment and I've installed the latest CB on this environment and all seems to be working. Is there anything that may not work if we do not upgrade our PHP version as doing the PHP upgrade on this server could be problematic for other things.

Honestly I don't recommend using anything less than PHP 5.4. The requirement is set based off the PHP functions used or PHP bugs. 5.3.29 is greater than 5.3.3 so you're fine. 5.3.29 though is the EOL of PHP 5.3 so it's the last PHP 5.3 release ever; see the below.

php.net/archive/2014.php#id2014-08-14-1