Reply To: Uncheck checkbox programmatically

• saschapi

• February 17, 2020 at 9:40 pm

Hi John,
I’m using a checkbox. But the main issue I found over the weekend seems to be, that I hook into post transition status. That seems to fire PRIOR to saving fields. So, the check I do in “sendPublishNewseletter” -> “if(get_field(“send_newsletter”,$postid))” first of all is only true, if the checkbox was saved before. So I guess the “update_field(“send_newsletter”,0,$postid);” function does nothing, as it does not save to the database???

See my full code below.

Thanks Sascha

P.S.: I try to send a newsletter out, when the post is published. This is done by the “do_action(news_publish)” found later in the code.

/* Add Newsletter Action Hook on Publish */
add_action('transition_post_status', 'send_new_post', 10, 3);
// Listen for publishing of a new post
function send_new_post($new_status, $old_status, $post) {
  if('publish' === $new_status && 'publish' !== $old_status && $post->post_type === 'post') {
    sendPublishNewseletter($post->ID);
  }
}
//sending function
function sendPublishNewseletter($postid){
	if(get_field("send_newsletter",$postid)){
		//uncheck field
		update_field("send_newsletter",0,$postid);
		
		//define post ID
		$sendoutID = $postid;
		//get files
		$downloadHTML ='';
		if(get_field("dateien",$sendoutID)) { 
				$downloadHTML .= '<div style="margin: 20px; border: 1px solid #000; border-radius: 3px; background-color: #ECECEC;"><div style="margin: 20px; "><h3>Dokumente zum Download</h3>';
				foreach(get_field("dateien",$sendoutID) as $singleFile) {
					$thumbnailURL = '/wp-includes/images/media/document.png';
					$downloadHTML .= '<a href="'.$singleFile['datei']['url'].'" class="textlink" download>'.$singleFile['datei']['title'].' ('.pathinfo($singleFile['datei']['url'],PATHINFO_EXTENSION).', '.size_format($singleFile['datei']['filesize']).')</a><br/>';
				}
				$downloadHTML .= '</div></div>';
			}
		
        do_action( 'news_publish','', array( 
			'teaser-subject' => '{post_title:'.$sendoutID.'}',
			'teaser-date' => get_the_date( 'd.m.Y', $sendoutID ),
			'teaser-image' => get_the_post_thumbnail_url($sendoutID),
			'teaser-link' => '{post_link:'.$sendoutID.'}',
			'teaser-content' => '{post_content:'.$sendoutID.'}',
			'teaser-downloads' => '<div style="text-align: center;">'.$downloadHTML.'</div>',
			
		));
	}
}