Vies validation response string

Hi Mark,

Thank you for purchasing our plugin and I'm glad you like it,

I just checked the detailed response from the Europa.eu API to see if the Consultation Number is in the complete response. I'm afraid it isn't:

I looked into it quite a bit and I looked over the API but I can't see any way to get the consultation nr. I'm afraid

The request date is there yes. If you want I can think of a way to store the date somewhere, it will require some custom coding though, it's not possible directly through plugin settings.

Kind Regards,

Stefan

Hi,

You're right actually, that worked!

To add this to the plugin's main release, there are various issues for us, a need for extra settings and many code changes.

But I have packaged it as code that you can add to functions.php of your site.

CODE:

add_action('woocommerce_created_customer', 'save_vies_consultation_details', 999, 1);
function save_vies_consultation_details($user_id){
    $vat_number_inputted = get_user_meta($user_id,'billing_vat', true);
    if (!(empty($vat_number_inputted))){
        $client = new SoapClient("http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/checkVatService.wsdl");
        $country_code = substr($vat_number_inputted, 0, 2); // take first 2 chars
        $vat_number = substr($vat_number_inputted, 2); // remove first 2 chars
        $validation = $client->checkVatApprox(array(
          'countryCode' => $country_code,
          'vatNumber' => $vat_number,
          'requesterVatNumber' => '0660982942',
          'requesterCountryCode' => 'BE'
        ));
        if(intval($validation->valid) === 1){
            $consultationnr = $validation ->requestIdentifier;
            $requestdate = $validation ->requestDate;
            update_user_meta($user_id,'viesconsultationnr', $consultationnr);
            update_user_meta($user_id,'viesrequestdate', $requestdate);
        }
    }
}
add_action( 'show_user_profile', 'extra_user_profile_fields' );
add_action( 'edit_user_profile', 'extra_user_profile_fields' );
function extra_user_profile_fields( $user ) { ?>
    <h3><?php _e("B2BKing extra profile information", "blank"); ?></h3>
    <table class="form-table">
    <tbody><tr>
        <th><label for="viesconsultationnr"><?php _e("VIES Consultation NR"); ?--></label></th>
        <td>
            <input type="text" name="viesconsultationnr" id="viesconsultationnr" value="<?php echo esc_attr( get_the_author_meta( 'viesconsultationnr', $user->ID ) ); ?>" class="regular-text"><br>
            <span class="description"><!--?php _e("VIES CONSULTATION NR"); ?--></span>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <th><label for="viesrequestdate"><!--?php _e("VIES Request Date"); ?--></label></th>
        <td>
            <input type="text" name="viesrequestdate" id="viesrequestdate" value="<?php echo esc_attr( get_the_author_meta( 'viesrequestdate', $user->ID ) ); ?>" class="regular-text"><br>
            <span class="description"><!--?php _e("REQUEST DATE."); ?--></span>
        </td>
    </tr>
    </tbody></table>
<!--?php }-->

EFFECTS:

You will get this in the user's profile page:

In the code you should REPLACE

  'requesterVatNumber' => '0660982942',          'requesterCountryCode' => 'BE'

with your own VAT Number !!!

Glad that mostly worked

I looked again over what I sent you, and I can see now the code did not copy correctly, a lot of things were replaced with comments. Ticksy has occasional quirks unfortunately.

I think it might be the same problem for the missing label, it could be a comment.