gform post submission action order

is gform_post_submission action hook called before or after the actual post submission, and additionally, the form's redirect URL and associated queryString isn't called until after the actual post submission, correct?

Well, I have a 2 page form. The first page deals with registration details. I have a gform_post_submission() hook that then populates my own database with form 1.

However, I also generate a new registrationID that I need to pass to form 2, which deals with payment based on the registrationID.

I was planning on setting $form['confirmation']['queryString']=$registrationID in the post_submission() hook, as well as setting $form['confirmation']['url']=$page2Url to redirect to my form 2.

However, if the redirect itself happens BEFORE my post_submission() hook, then that won't work, because I'm setting the queryString and url too late.

Chris, from my test it appears that setting the redirect url/queryString in gform_after_submission() doesn't work.

I need a way to dynamically set the redirect url/queryString based on the form's entered values from the user.

I can't use gform_confirmation() because it doesn't send the ENTRY object as a parameter, which I need to extract the user entered field values.

What can I do to accomplish my needs?

I have a martial arts tournament registration site. It will list multiple tournaments on the front page. When the user clicks on a particular tournament, they will be directed to the GF Registration form.

But each tournament has conditions/rules specific to it, so to accomplish this that tournament's ID is sent as a queryString to the GF Registration form.

pre_render() is used to lookup the tournamentID from a DB and then dynamically pre-populate the Registration form with values specific for that tournament.

Upon submit, after_submission() does the following:
* generate a unique Registration ID (which is the primary key)
* perform DB INSERT of form entry values using registration ID as primary key
* set the queryString to the RegistrationID and set redirect URL to the Payment form (these don't work)

The Payment Form:
* looks up the registration ID from the Registration table to retrieve the registration details
* obtains the cost for this competitor (cost depends on what he had chosen in the Registration form)
* generates encrypted paypal button
* dynamically generates URL and queryString to paypal (this won't work either)

I suppose its possible to combine payment and registration into a single form, but there is still the problem of dynamically generating the paypal URL and queryString for the Payment Form that is the same as the original problem in the first place.

Will my hack work?

Any updates on this? Upon further analysis, I think I would have to modify the GF codebase so that a hook is created right after receiving the form submission. While this isn't a difficult change, it definitely stops me from easily upgrading to future versions.

Would it be possible to add this new hook on your end?