Hi!
The problem is that files uploaded from frontend are not attached to post. I examined this solutions:
https://support.advancedcustomfields.com/forums/topic/acf_form-attachment-to-media-gallery/
https://support.advancedcustomfields.com/forums/topic/attach-images-created-in-front-end-form-to-custom-post/
But as I understood they work well only for specific fields, but not for post_content field.
Is there any solution to attach uploaded files in post_content (fe images), to post (update their post_parent)?
Thanks in advance!
No there isn’t, and it would be difficult to do so. You would need to parse the HTML in post_content to find the images and the image IDs added to the content preg_match_all() and a regular expression.
Here is an example of an image inserted into content
<img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-140" src="http://domain.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/image.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="169" />
you can see that in the class the image ID of “140” is included.
This has not been tested, but something like might do it.
preg_match_all('/wp-image-(\d+)/', $string, $matches);
And you’re list of ID (as strings) would be found in $matches[1].
Thank you!
I tried this, but it failed:
function my_save_post( $post_id ) {
$my_content = get_field('post_content', $post_id);
if($my_content){
preg_match_all('/wp-image-(\d+)/', $content, $matches);
$imagatt = $matches[1];
foreach( $imagatt as $imagat ):
$post_to_update = array(
'ID' => $imagat,
'post_parent' => $post_id
);
wp_update_post( $post_to_update );
endforeach;
}
}
add_action('acf/save_post', 'my_save_post', 20);
I also tried
$my_content = $_POST['post_content'];
instead of
$my_content = get_field('post_content', $post_id);
In template I use:
<?php acf_form(array(
'post_id' => 'new_post',
'new_post' => array(
'post_type' => 'upr',
),
'post_title' => true,
'post_content' => true,
'submit_value' => 'Add item'
)); ?>
Can you help me? I think the solution is not so far…
Oh, of course $content means $my_content, but that’s not the reason.
Like I said, I don’t know if the regular expression is returning what I think it is because I have not tested it. I would output it to see
// temp line to test what is matched
var_dump($matches); exit;
Also, Post ID’s must be integers and $matches will contain strings if it’s returning anything
'ID' => intval($imagat),
