Reply To: Trying to automatically assign relationship using updatefield with insert_post

• Henkster123

• June 19, 2020 at 7:37 pm

Okay John, this really helped a lot and pointed me in the right direction. After some testing I managed to get it working, however I do not understand why it works… My process:

1) I implemented exactly as you suggested. However nothing happened..
2) I thought it might be that the day_post array was not filled correctly so I tried printing that using print_r

Using wp_update_post:

$my_post = array ();
	'ID'		=> $relatie,
	'post_content'	=> $day_post. '<br>' . $relatie );
wp_update_post($my_post);

3) I started checking whether this was an issue of scope so put the declaration of the day_post outside of the function, but it did not make a difference

4) Then I checked whether it had something to do with how print_r worked and made sure it was a returned value:

$results = print_r($day_posts, true);
$results1 = print_r($relatieID, true);
	$my_post = array ();
		'ID'		=> $relatie,
		'post_content'	=> $results . '<br>' . $relatie . '<br>' . $results1);

wp_update_post($my_post);

This actually showed that $day_post was filled correctly and that $relatie also was the correct input post.

5) only then I saw that it had already worked! However I had no idea why so I started tracing back. Long story short: adding a `wp_update_post’ with an empty array did the trick. I suspect it has something to do with priority of what’s loaded on the page or something… but really have no idea.

Final working code:

$day_posts = array();
	 foreach ($week as $weekday) {
		$PostID = wp_insert_post(array(
			'post_title' 	=> $latestpost[0]->post_title . ': ' . $weekday,
			'post_type'	=> 'palaver',
			'query_var'	=> true
			));
		$day_posts[] = $PostID;
		wp_set_object_terms($PostID, $CatTermID, 'gebied');

			}
		$my_post = array ();
		wp_update_post($my_post);
		update_field('field_5eea245f36217', $day_posts, $relatie);

If you can shed any light on this John (just because I’m interested in undertanding what’s actually happening), that would be awesome. If you have better things to do I also understand 😉 Muchas Gracias! 🙂