Title: “Email in use” error hook?
Last modified: May 18, 2020

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# “Email in use” error hook?

 *  Resolved [bitcloud](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bitcloud/)
 * (@bitcloud)
 * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-in-use-error-hook/)
 * Hi, I’m trying to hook into the “This email is already linked to an existing 
   account” error to add that existing email to the current multisite blog.
 * Currently I have:
 *     ```
       add_filter( 'um_submit_form_error', 'my_submit_form_error', 10, 2 );
       function my_submit_form_error( $error, $key ) {
           if ($error == "This email is already linked to an existing account") {
                //Here I would like to take the existing email address and add it to the list of users for this site.
           }
       return $error;
       }
       ```
   
 * Does anyone have any idea how I could expose the submitted email address within
   this function, or does anyone have a better idea? Thanks

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Champ Camba](https://wordpress.org/support/users/champsupertramp/)
 * (@champsupertramp)
 * [5 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-in-use-error-hook/#post-12858622)
 * Hi [@bitcloud](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bitcloud/)
 * You could try the following code snippet:
 *     ```
       add_filter( 'um_submit_form_error', 'my_submit_form_error', 10, 2 );
       function my_submit_form_error( $error, $key ) {
            $email_value = UM()->form()->post_form[ $key ]; 
           if ( "user_email" == $key && $user_id = email_exists(  $email_value )  ) {
                 // do something with the $user_id of the existing email.
           }
           return $error;
       }
       ```
   
 * Regards,
 *  Plugin Contributor [Champ Camba](https://wordpress.org/support/users/champsupertramp/)
 * (@champsupertramp)
 * [5 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-in-use-error-hook/#post-12870484)
 * Hi [@bitcloud](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bitcloud/)
    This thread has
   been inactive for a while so we’re going to go ahead and mark it Resolved.
 * Please feel free to re-open this thread if any other questions come up and we’d
   be happy to help. 🙂
 * Regards,

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 * Last activity: [5 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-in-use-error-hook/#post-12870484)
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