Help with a event handler that doesn't fire

Question

HALP! This is my first attempt at this kind of thing. It seems that the function won't fire when the event happens. (Eventually, what's supposed to happen is that when the event

Mage::dispatchEvent('nextbits_form_save_after',array('form_data'=>$params, 'form_model'=>$formModel));

occurs, the form data will be routed to appropriate people based on the data contained in the form.....)

I haven't written that code yet, but I don't see the observer catching the event and doing anything at all. What is the problem with my event/observer structures?

Observer.php: [\app\code\local\Westcott\EmailRouter\Model\Observer.php]

<?php

class Westcott_EmailRouter_Model_Observer {

    public function Notify_by_Mail($observer){

        if (isset($observer['form_data'])) {
            $form_data = $observer['form_data'];
            //$form_model = $observer['form_model'];

            foreach ($form_data as $key =>$fd) {
                //Do something with the form data
                echo "K: ".$key." => ".$fd."<br/>";
            }
            /*
            foreach ($form_model as $key =>$fm) {
                //Do something with the form data
                echo "K: ".$key." => ".$fm."<br/>";
            }
            */
        } else {
            //Do something else with the form data...
        }

    }

    echo "Hello!!";
}

Westcott_EmailRouter.xml: [\app\etc\modules\Westcott_EmailRouter.xml]

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config>
  <modules>
    <Westcott_EmailRouter>
        <active>true</active>
        <codePool>local</codePool>
    </Westcott_EmailRouter>
  </modules>
</config>

config.xml: [\app\code\local\Westcott\EmailRouter\etc\config.xml]

<?xml version="1.0"?>
    <config>
        <modules>
            <Westcott_EmailRouter>
                <version>0.1.0</version>
            </Westcott_EmailRouter>
        </modules>
        <global>
            <models>
                <emailrouter>
                    <class>Westcott_EmailRouter_Model</class>
                </emailrouter>
            </models>
            <events>
                <nextbits_form_save_after>
                    <observers>
                        <Westcott_EmailRouter>
                            <!--<type>singleton</type>-->
                            <class>westcott_emailrouter/observer</class>
                            <method>Notify_by_Mail</method>
                        </Westcott_EmailRouter>
                    </observers>
                </nextbits_form_save_after>
            </events>   
        </global>
    </config>

Answer 1

Hello There are issue in events tags... model class declaretion also Notify_by_Mail is not exiting in observer.php

....
<observers>
                        <westcott_emailRouter>

                            <class>emailrouter/observer</class>
                            <method>doNotifyBySubmittedContent</method>
                        </westcott_emailRouter>
                    </observers>
...

Answer 2

First make sure the event your observing exits:

grep -rin -B2 -A2 "Mage::dispatchEvent" app/* > events.txt

View events.txt and search for nextbits_form_save_after

Second, as others mentioned your observer method isn't defined in your Observer.php

<method> should be doNotifyBySubmittedContent instead.

You can also get a list of events with a quick core hack:

• Where can I find a complete list of Magento events?

You may also want to verify that the eventDispatch you're trying to observer is in fact being called during the stack as well.

* EDIT *

---

$observer will not have ['form_data'] you'll need to get the Event Request.

$request = $observer->getEvent()->getRequest()->getParams();
if(is_set($request['form_data'])) {

* EDIT #2 *

---

Just realized I had getParams() as the dispatched Event is magic getter/setter NOT a URI request.

Something like this should work if you're sure the event is being dispatched and form data is present:

$event = $observer->getEvent(); $formData = $event->getFormData(); // magic get/set $formModel = $event->getFormModel(); // magic get/set zend_debug::dump($formData); zend_debug::dump($formModel);