Reply To: Programmatic duplication

• dcsworldwide

• April 8, 2017 at 8:29 pm

Nevermind, ended up coding it myself (in this case, I want to clone a user’s meta). Code below for anyone else who might be interested:

clone_user_meta(16,8);
        
function clone_user_meta($source_user,$destination_user) {
    
    // check the users exist
    if(!user_exists($source_user) || !user_exists($destination_user)) { 
        return new WP_Error('whoops', __( "One of the specified users does not exist", 'my_textdomain' ));
    }
    
    // ignore any fields BEGINNING WITH
    $ignore_wildcard = array(
        'billing_',
        'shipping_',
    );
    
    // ignore specific FULLY NAMED fields
    $ignore = array(
        'nickname',
        'first_name',
        'last_name',
    );

    $source_meta = get_user_meta($source_user);
    
    foreach($source_meta as $key => $value) {
        
        // the current key is not in the $ignore list, continue
        if(!in_array($key, $ignore)) {
            
            $skip = false;
            
            // check if the current key matches a "wildcard ignore"
            foreach($ignore_wildcard as $wildcard_key) {
                if(starts_with($wildcard_key,$key)) {
                   $skip = true; 
                   break; // we found one! break out of the loop
                }
            }
            
            if(!$skip && $value[0] != '') { // valid field to clone
                update_user_meta($destination_user,$key,$value); // add/update the value
            }
        }
    }
    
    return true;
}

function starts_with($needle, $haystack) {
    return strpos($haystack, $needle, 0)=== 0 ? true : false;
}

function user_exists($user_id) {
    $user = get_userdata($user_id);
    if ($user === false) {
        return false;
    }
    
    return true;
}