ACF file field with wp_insert_post function

• marco4000

• September 28, 2019 at 7:59 pm

hello, I need to create multiple php posts using the wp_insert_post function.
how can I integrate an acf file field into the code, inserting a url file that I get from a string variable php? Thank you very much

• John Huebner

• September 29, 2019 at 12:41 am

You need to insert the file with something like this https://gist.github.com/hissy/7352933

Once that is done use the attachment ID to update the ACF field.

• marco4000

• September 29, 2019 at 7:33 pm

thank you for this, but i don’t undestand how i can integrate with
wp_insert_post function.
Thanks a lot

• marco4000

• September 30, 2019 at 2:17 am

i try to modify these functions (get here)
https://www.pearlbells.co.uk/insert-update-acf-image-repeater-field-programmatically/

function uploadImages( $files ) {
 
    $imgAcfIds = array();
 
    foreach($files as $imgfile) {
        $filename = basename($imgfile);
        $upload_file = wp_upload_bits($filename, null, file_get_contents($imgfile));
        if (!$upload_file['error']) {
            $wp_filetype = wp_check_filetype($filename, null );
            $attachment = array(
                'post_mime_type' => $wp_filetype['type'],
                'post_parent' => 251,
                'post_title' => preg_replace('/\.[^.]+$/', '', $filename),
                'post_content' => '',
                'post_status' => 'inherit',
				'post_author'   => 2,
	'post_category' => array(9)
	
            );
			
			
            $attachment_id = wp_insert_attachment( $attachment, $upload_file['file'], 251 );
            
			
            // get attachment id for acf field
 
            $imgAcfIds[] = array('documento' => $attachment_id);
            echo 'Attachment Id :'.$attachment_id .PHP_EOL;
            if (!is_wp_error($attachment_id)) {
                require_once(ABSPATH . "wp-admin" . '/includes/image.php');
                $attachment_data = wp_generate_attachment_metadata( $attachment_id, $upload_file['file'] );
                wp_update_attachment_metadata( $attachment_id,  $attachment_data );
            }
        }
    }
    echo '<pre>';
    print_r($imgAcfIds);
	$post_id = wp_insert_post( wp_slash($attachment) );
    update_field( 'field_5d78c5acf0ff3', $imgAcfIds , 251 );
	
}

    function readDataFromImageFolder() {
        
        $imageFolderName = 14;
        $base = dirname(__FILE__);
        $dirname = $base.'/images/'.$imageFolderName;
        $files = array();
        
        if (!file_exists($dirname)) {
            echo "The directory $dirname not exists.".PHP_EOL;
            exit;
        } else {
            echo "The directory $dirname exists.".PHP_EOL;
            $dh  = opendir( $dirname );
            
            while (false !== ($filename = readdir($dh))) {
                if ($filename === '.' || $filename === '..') continue;
                $files[] = $dirname.$filename;
            }
            uploadImages( $files );
        }
     
      //  echo '<pre>';
      //  print_r($files);die();
     
    }

but don’t work my file field name is documento my file field key is field_5d78c5acf0ff3a

thanks a lot