Reply To: Show online/offline status

• Seblito

• April 28, 2022 at 4:13 am

Hey guys,

I would like to use ACF to show whether or not a user with the role ‘advisor’ is online. As of now I have a true/false field set up (inside a group) and I can manually switch between the different statuses for each user and see the update reflected on the frontend. However I would like this to function automatically, and this is where I’m lost.

This is the function I have produced so far – but it’s not working.

add_action('wp_loaded', 'itc_assign_advisor_online_status');

function itc_assign_advisor_online_status() {
	$online_status = get_field('onlinestatus');

	if (is_user_logged_in() && ! current_user_can( 'administrator' )) {
		$online_status['is_online'] = 1;
	} else {
		update_field($online_status['is_online'], 0);
	}
}

Am I using the wrong hook, maybe?

For the record, this is my graphical interface code:

<?php

$online_status = get_field('onlinestatus');
$green_status = 'online';
$yellow_fill_status = 'busy--filled';
$red_fill_status = 'offline--filled';
$yellow_border_status = 'busy';
$red_border_status = 'offline';

        if ($online_status) { ?>
          <div class="card__btn-block">
            <a href="#" class="btn rounded <?php
              if ($online_status['is_online']) {
                echo $green_status;
              }
              if ($online_status['is_busy']) {
                echo $yellow_border_status;
              }
              if ($online_status['is_offline']) {
                echo $red_border_status;
              } ?>"><?php
              if ($online_status['is_online']) {
                echo 'Available';
              }
              if ($online_status['is_busy']) {
                echo 'Busy';
              }
              if ($online_status['is_offline']) {
                echo 'Offline';
              }
              ?></a>
          </div>
        <?php } ?>

Any help is highly appreciated!