“Save contact and add contribution” button in the contact form

Question

In the contact form, I need to add a new button "Save and add Contribution" that, when pressed:

• save the current contact data
• redirect to the "New contribution" page, possibly with the contact already selected

How can obtain this? Thanks

Answer 1

You can solve this by writing some custom code in an extension. You can use a hook to insert this butoon on the contact form which does what you want to do.

Answer 2

The way suggested by Jaap is correct. After creating a new extension in the buildForm hook I've inserted the following button:

$form->add('submit', 'SaveAndContribution', ts('Save and Add Contribution'));

and his template. The form is now complete.

At the moment, anyway, I'm not able to distinguish which button was pressed. I had a look at the postProcess hook, but without result.