Attach Users to Custom Post Type?

• RickyGreen

• March 1, 2016 at 11:48 pm

Hello, i’m trying to attach users to certain investments, once the investments have reached there target my client will manually select investors attached to the investment.

I would like to display a snippet of the investment and the updates to individual users profiles.

http://pastebin.com/cHitkyMs

I’ve yet to work this one out, any ideas, articles would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Ricky

• James

• March 2, 2016 at 1:34 pm

Hi @rickygreen

I’m not sure about your situation. Could you please share some screenshots of the issue. Also, you can query posts by custom fields. Please take a look at this page to learn more about it: http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/query-posts-custom-fields/.

Thanks!

• RickyGreen

• March 3, 2016 at 9:42 pm

Hello James,

http://i.imgur.com/PknedLi.png – So, here you can see the user account, i have added a tab to UltimateMember plugin.

i would like to show which users are attached to which investments.http://i.imgur.com/a4QR8LC.png

This is the relevant sections of my function.php
https://gist.github.com/anonymous/21a44de272258fc30253

I did read a that article but the user bits thrown be off. Thanks

• James

• March 4, 2016 at 3:56 pm

Hi @rickygreen

Multiple users field is saved in a serialized data like this: a:3:{i:0;s:3:"810";i:1;s:3:"135";i:2;s:3:"814";}.

I believe you can query the investment custom posts using this arguments code:

$userID = $current_user->ID;
$args = array(
	'numberposts'	=> -1,
	'post_type'	=> 'investment_cpt',
	'meta_query'	=> array(
		array(
			'key'		=> 'investors_attach',
			'value'		=> serialize(strval($userID)),
			'compare'	=> 'LIKE'
		),
	)
);

Where ‘investment_cpt’ is the custom post type of your investment.

Please take a look at this page again to learn more about it: http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/query-posts-custom-fields/.

I hope this helps.