Reply To: Update 'Message' field manually in PHP

• Fpad77

• August 23, 2014 at 8:36 pm

I’ve cobbled together a quick solution to do this.

Anyone have a better idea let me know!

update_message_field('field_53f8663f25abd', '<b>My message</b>');

function update_message_field($field_key='', $message='')
{
	global $wpdb;

	$table = $wpdb->prefix.'postmeta';
	$field = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT * FROM $table WHERE meta_key = '$field_key'");
	if($field)
	{
		$meta = unserialize($field[0]->meta_value);
		$meta['message'] = $message;
		$wpdb->update(
			$table,
			array(
				'meta_value'=>serialize($meta)
			),
			array('meta_key'=>$field_key),
			array('%s')
		);
	}
}