acf/update problem with custom content type

• SuaveDan

• February 15, 2015 at 10:19 am

Hello,

I am building a site for our local hockey league. I’ve created a new Custom Content Type to show info about each game coming up (game_preview). In this, I’ve created 3 ACD fields:

Home Team (Select) – home_team
Away Team (Select) – away_team
Game Date (Date) – game_date

What I want to do is create a new post title that looks like this:
home_team @ away_team – game_date

However, all I can get is an “@” sign or the word “value” showing up, depending how I tinker with it. Can anyone check the code below for me and see what I am doing wrong?

//ACF Title Override
function game_preview_custom_title($value, $post_id, $field ){

	$home = get_field("home_team");
	$away = get_field("away_team");
	$date = get_field("game_date");

	$title = $home." @ ".$away." - ".$game_date;
	$slug = sanitize_title($title); 

	$previewdata = array(
    	'ID'          => $post_id,
    	'post_type'   => 'game_preview',
   	 	'post_title'  => $title,
	  	'post_name'   => $slug
  	);

	wp_update_post($previewdata);

	return value;
}

add_filter('acf/update_value/name=home_team', 'game_preview_custom_title', 10, 3);
add_filter('acf/update_value/name=away_team', 'game_preview_custom_title', 10, 3);
add_filter('acf/update_value/name=game_date', 'game_preview_custom_title', 10, 3);

• James

• June 19, 2016 at 10:30 pm

Hi @suavedan,

Thanks for the post.

I would recommend you make use of the acf/save_post action instead and then update the post title like so:

//Auto add and update Title field:
  function my_post_title_updater( $post_id ) {

    $my_post = array();
    $my_post['ID'] = $post_id;
        
        $home = get_field("home_team");
	$away = get_field("away_team");
	$date = get_field("game_date");

	$title = $home." @ ".$away." - ".$game_date;
	$slug = sanitize_title($title); 

	$previewdata = array(
    	'ID'          => $post_id,
    	'post_type'   => 'game_preview',
   	 	'post_title'  => $title,
	  	'post_name'   => $slug
  	);

	wp_update_post($previewdata);

  }
   
  // run after ACF saves the $_POST['fields'] data
  add_action('acf/save_post', 'my_post_title_updater', 20);