Create post + user (linked to eachother)

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  • Ruurd

  • April 29, 2020 at 5:52 am

  Good evening,

  I work a lot with ACF but this issue is new to me. The situation is as follows: I am letting my visitors create a post wich is storen inside a custom post type (my-cpt). For this I am using acf_form() function:

  acf_form_head();
  
  get_header();
  
  while (have_posts()) {
  	the_post();
  	
  	$user_id = get_current_user_id();
  	
  	acf_form(array(
  		'post_id'       => 'new_post',
  		'new_post'	=> array(
  			'post_type' => 'my-cpt',
  			'post_status' => 'publish'
  			'post_author' => $user_id,
  		),
  		'submit_value'  => 'Create new post'
  	));
  }
  
  get_footer();

  and in my functions.php:

  function create_user_via_acf( $post_id ) {
  	
  	$username = get_field('username', $post_id);
  	$password = get_field('password', $post_id);
  	
  	wp_create_user($username, $password);
  	
  	wp_delete_post($post_id);
  	
  }
  add_action('acf/save_post', 'create_user_via_acf', 20);

  The post is created and also the user but they are not connected. I have been puzzeling with different solutions but none of them had any luck. Does anybody have any ideas on this and how I can automaticly create a post and user simultaniously while keeping them ‘connected’?
• 

  • Ruurd

  • April 30, 2020 at 8:04 am

  Oke, I am little bit further. I managed to create a post and a user but I am not yet there.

  This is what I use in my template:

  while (have_posts()) {
      the_post();
      
      acf_form(array(
          'post_id'       => 'new_post',
          'submit_value'  => 'Register user',
          'uploader' => 'basic',
          'updated_message' => 'Well done! You made an account and a post.',
          'html_updated_message'  => '<div style="background: rgba(31,205,80,.2); padding: 10px 20px; border-radius: 4px;" class="updated"><p>%s</p></div>',
          'new_post' => array(
              'post_type'     => 'my-cpt',
              'post_status'   => 'publish'
          ),
      ));
  }

  This is what I have now in my functions.php:

  function create_user_via_acf($post_id) {
  	
  	$username = get_field('username',$post_id);
  	$password = get_field('password',$post_id);
  	$email = get_field('email',$post_id);
  	$categories = get_field('categories',$post_id);
  
  	// creating the user
  	$userdata = array (
  		'user_login'    => $username .'-'. generate_random_user_number(),
  		'user_email'    => $email,
  		'user_pass'     => $password,
  		'post_category' => $categories
  	);
  	$user_id = wp_insert_user($userdata);
  	
  	// overwriting the post I created with acf_form()
  	$arg = array(
  		'ID' => $post_id,
  		'post_author' => $user_id,
  		'post_title' => $username .'-'. generate_random_user_number(),
  		'post_content'  => 'content overwritten',
  	);
  	wp_update_post($arg);
  	
  	return $post_id;
  	
  	//wp_delete_post($post_id); //this does not delete the second post
  	
  }
  add_action('acf/save_post', 'create_user_via_acf', 20);

  In the function above, I try to delete the extra post, wich does not work. I do not know why. Further more, I also see there are 2 posts being created, this should be one. Also the title of the post should be the same as the user I am trying to create.

  I created a function wich returns a random integer of 3 numers (generate_random_user_number()) wich I append to the username and post. But it creates one user with e.g. username-123 and 2 posts with post-456 and post-789. Just an example to point out the digits aren’t the same. For different reasons I use the a number wich is called upon 3 times since it generates 3 different numbers.

  It should be post-123 and username-123. Username-123 should automaticly the post_author of post-123. But I just can’t get my head around this.

  I also used add_filter(‘acf/pre_save_post’) but that did not work either.

  Does anybody have any thoughts on this? A lot of thanks in advance.
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  • Ruurd

  • August 20, 2020 at 6:12 am

  Topic can be closed. I used another approach.