vTiger Event Handler to check if record exists - php

Question

I am working on vTiger 6.5 and I am trying to figure a way to see if a record exists in a custom module of mine. I want to check whether the 'policynumber' is new before saving, here is my code so far. For some reason it seems to act randomly depending on my module number chosen.
class isaHandler extends VTEventHandler {
function handleEvent($eventName, $entityData) {
global $adb;
$moduleName = $entityData->getModuleName();
if($moduleName=='isa'){
if($eventName == 'vtiger.entity.beforesave.modifiable') {
$isNew = $entityData->isNew('policynumber');
if ($isNew == false) {
echo "Duplicate policy number";
exit;
}
}
if($eventName == 'vtiger.entity.beforesave') {}}
if($eventName == 'vtiger.entity.beforesave.final') {
$price = $entityData->get('currentamount');
if($price > 20000){
echo "Please go back and enter less than 20000";
exit;
}
if($eventName == 'vtiger.entity.aftersave') {}
}
}
At the moment I am currently using an echo just to see the result. But later on I will perform more than this.

Answer 1

isNew()
Returns true if new record is being created, false otherwise.
More info is here
you should write a custom query to check policynumber already exist or not in your function:
if($eventName == 'vtiger.entity.beforesave.modifiable') {
global $adb;
$result = $adb->pquery("SELECT your-field-name FROM table_name WHERE policynumber=?", array($policynumbervalue));
if($result && $adb->num_rows($result)) {
echo "This policy number exist";
die();
}else{
// write your overwrite code
}
} //end if($eventName == 'vtiger.entity.beforesave.modifiable')
Update:
I am assuming there is field i.e. policynumber in your form, you enter some value in this field and submit the form. so you will get entered policy number value from this:
$policynumbervalue = $entityData->get('policynumber'); //this is vtiger standard way
if this does not work, you can simply use php global variable $_REQUEST['policynumber'] but I is not a good practice.
Hope this will help.

Answer 2

This is the update to my answer, I simply done an if statement on the number of rows displayed.
if($eventName == 'vtiger.entity.beforesave.modifiable') {
$policynumbervalue = $entityData->get('policynumber');
$sql = $adb->pquery("SELECT policynumber FROM vtiger_isa WHERE policynumber=?",array($policynumbervalue));
$nrows = $adb->num_rows($sql);
if($nrows > 0){
echo "<script type=\"text/javascript\">window.alert('ISA policy number already exists, you will be redirected to the updata module.');
window.location.href = '/vtigercrm/index.php?module=isa&view=List';</script>";
exit;
}