How can I react when a commerce product is explicitly created via the UI?

Question

how do we add a submit handler in drupal commerce everytime a product is created.

I tried using the following code.

function custommodule_formid_form_alter(&$form, &$form_state, $form_id) {
    $form['#submit'][] = 'custom_submit_function';

    return $form;
}

function custom_submit_function() {
    print "<pre>";
    print_r($form_state);
    print "</pre>";
    die();
}

Is this the correct way?

I tested it, and actually managed to get the form submit new handler works, but the problem is after the form is submitted, I wanted to get the submitted data and manipulate it. It is not working out as the form data is all gone.

function custommodule_form_alter(&$form, &$form_state, $form_id) {   
    $form['#submit'][] = 'custom_submit_function';
}

function custom_submit_function($form, &$form_state) {
  $value = $form_state['values']['field_data'];
}

Answer 1

If you're only wanting to respond do products created via the UI, then form submit handlers should work. As noted, this wouldn't work for products created by any other method.

The correct hook you should use is hook_commerce_product_insert(). This isn't documented, but it should be. Using this hook will ensure that no matter where the product gets added that the hook runs.

function MYMODULE_commerce_product_insert($product) {
  ...
}

If you're wanting to create 100 new products, you can still loop in this function but you'll just need to differentiate between products that are created and the one that you began looping by some particular method. This could mean, for instance that there is particular SKU format (e.g. all created products end in -XXX where XXX is some number and the one created via the UI does not) or some extra field (e.g. field_parent_product that is empty on the one created in the UI but isn't on the sub-products). It's then trivial to both skip products that have a non-empty field, but also be able to handle updates or deletes down the road.

Answer 2

If you want to replace the existing submit handler then you need to remove the [] this: Something like this

$form['#submit'] = 'custom_submit_function';

Also be sure to check the form id of your form and the weight of your module.

Answer 3

Yes, this is correct way. But it will work only if product is created with the help of form. If you want to add some actions every time when product is created even it is created without the help of product form(e.g programmatically) you should use hook_entity_insert

UPD: You had to say about autogenerated products in your initial post. You may add some property to all products that are created there and check it in hook_entity_insert. Example(maybe need some modifications):

/**
 * Implements hook_entity_insert().
 */
function mymodule_entity_insert($entity, $type) {
  if ($type == 'product') {
    if (empty($entity->auto_generate)) {
      $new_product = entity_create('product');
      $new_product->auto_generated = TRUE;
      $new_product->save();
    }
  }
}