Reply To: Frontend Form not populating right in backend

• thePixelPixie

• July 1, 2016 at 5:38 am

Hi James,
Thanks again for your help here. Client did upgrade to Pro (solving issue #3) and I believe I’ve gotten the appropriate codes modified now so I’m not having issues #1 anymore. YAY!

I’m still having trouble with item #2 however. I get the first part of the title working properly, but the date it’s adding is today’s date, not the date entered in the start_date date picker field.

Here’s what I have for that area. Perhaps you’ll see what I’m doing wrong:

function vbsform_update_title( $value, $post_id, $field ) {
	
	$new_title_church_name = get_field( 'church_name', $post_id) . ' ' . $value;
	
	$new_title_date = get_field('start_date', $post_id);
	
	// make date object
	$new_title_date = new DateTime($new_title_date);
	
	$new_title = $new_title_church_name . '-' . $new_title_date->format('M j, Y');
	
	$new_slug = sanitize_title( $new_title );
	
	// update post
	$vbs_postdata = array(
		'ID'          => $post_id,
		'post_title'  => $new_title,
		'post_name'   => $new_slug,
	);	
	
	if ( ! wp_is_post_revision( $post_id ) ){
	
		// unhook this function so it doesn't loop infinitely
		remove_action('save_post', 'vbs_update_title');
	
		// update the post, which calls save_post again
		wp_update_post( $vbs_postdata );

		// re-hook this function
		add_action('save_post', 'vbs_update_title');
	}	
	
	return $value;
}

Still working on items #4 & #5. Hopefully I’ll get those figured out in the meantime 🙂