Front End Form -> the_modified_time()

• phil.m

• August 22, 2013 at 3:47 am

Hey I’m trying to figure out how to update the modified time on a post when a form is submitted from the front end.

Basically I’m trying to attach a function to update the post once the form is submitted using the save_post action. It seems like the action is not being attached when the submit button is clicked. If I just call the update_time() function on page load it updates the time properly but I can’t figure out how to attach it so it runs when the front end form is submitted.

<?php
function update_time() {
  $my_post = array();
  $my_post['ID'] = 1674;
  wp_update_post( $my_post );
}

add_action( 'acf/save_post', 'update_time');

$options = array(
   'post_id' => 1674
);

acf_form($options);

?>	

Is there anyone out there that might know what’s wrong? THANKS =D.

• Elliot

• August 22, 2013 at 2:34 pm

Hi @phil.m

Looking at your code, there is no reference of editing the time…

Your update_time function simply does nothing…

Have you forgotten some code of intentionally left it out?

• phil.m

• August 22, 2013 at 10:54 pm

Hey thanks for replying man.

The function essentially does do nothing other than update the post object.

So instead of creating a function that updates the modified time row in the database, I’m using wp_post_update() to simply update the post object so wordpress stamps the new time.

So if I call this function on page load

function update_time() {
  $my_post = array();
  $my_post['ID'] = 1674; //or $post->ID in the loop
  wp_update_post( $my_post );
}
update_time();

the function runs and updates the post specified (in this case post id 1674) and wordpress updates the last modified time of the post.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_update_post they show an example of attaching this to save_post, which is basically what I’m trying to do.

I’ll just manually make the form since I’m only updating 2 meta values (and both of them are pre-populated select boxes lol).

I’ll mark it as solved but it would be interesting to know if its possible to do this.

thanks again