Magento – How to get associated event name from observer

event-observermagento-1.7

Say I have an observer, and I want to get the name of the event that's associated with it. What's the proper way to get this string, if it's possible?

e.g. customer_save_after or controller_action_predispatch_customer_account_createpost, etc.

Best Answer

To get the name of the triggered event you can use the following code

class [Namespace]_[Module]_Model_Observer
{
   function myObserver(Varien_Event_Observer $observer)
   {
      $event = $observer->getEvent();
      var_dump($event->getName());
   }
}

to see what other data is in the Event object just call getData which will display all the stored data.

[...]
var_dump($event->getData());
[...]

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Magento EE 1.10 – Unregister Event Observer Programmatically

You can try to mark your event as dispatched and on the second attempt of running it just do nothing if it's already dispatched. For example let's say your method is called updateCustomer().

public function updateCustomer($observer){
    if (Mage::registry('my_event_was_dispatched') == 1){//do nothing if the event was dispatched
        return $this;
    }
    //your code here
    Mage::register('my_event_was_dispatched', 1);//mark the event as dispatched.
}

The registry key name is not important, just make sure you use the same one in both cases.

Magento – how to get customer information using event observer

You can get a lot of customer details directly from the order object

$order->getCustomerEmail();
$order->getCustomerFirstname();

etc... You can see a lot of them by looking at the class comments in app/code/core/Mage/Sales/Model/Order.php

But you can also get the customer object from the order too like so

$customer = $order->getCustomer();

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Magento EE 1.10 – Unregister Event Observer Programmatically

Magento – how to get customer information using event observer

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