Reply To: Create post + user (linked to eachother)

• 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.