Get values from registration form

• walkers_inspiration

• August 17, 2016 at 9:35 pm

Hi,

I have added some custom fields to the WordPress registration form. When a user registered I wan’t to generate a post how can I get the values from the registration form? For example I would like to retrieve the company field and assign it to the post title.

function create_new_user_posts($user_id){
    if (!$user_id>0)
            return;

    $my_distributor_post = array(
    	'post_type' => 'distributer_search',
        'post_title' => 'custom field company',
        'post_content' => '',
        'post_status' => 'draft',
        'post_author' => $user_id,
    );

    // Insert the post into the database
    $contact = wp_insert_post( $my_contact_post );

    update_user_meta($user_id,'_distributor_post', $distributor);
}
add_action('user_register','create_new_user_posts');

• davyww

• August 17, 2016 at 11:09 pm

If your create_new_user_posts() function above works, try adding the below to your code; substitute your field keys and post type.

function pre_save_company_name($post_id){
  if( empty($_POST['acf']) ) { return; }
  $company = $_POST['acf']['THE COMPANY NAME FIELD KEY'];
  return $company;
}
add_action('acf/save_post', 'pre_save_company_name', 21);

function company_name_as_post_title( $data, $postarr ) {
    if ( ! $postarr['ID'] ) return $data;
    if ( $postarr['post_type'] !== 'YOUR POST TYPE' ) return $data;
    $post_id = $postarr['ID'];
    $company = pre_save_company_name($post_id);
    if( empty($company) ) { return $data; }  
    $data['post_title'] = $company;
    return $data;
}
add_filter( 'wp_insert_post_data', 'company_name_as_post_title', 99, 2 );

• walkers_inspiration

• August 18, 2016 at 6:10 pm

Thanks for your response I managed to to solve this by doing the following

$user_company = get_field('reg_company_name', 'user_' . $user_id);

$my_distributor_post = array(
    	'post_type' => 'distributer_search',
        'post_title' => '$user_company',
        'post_content' => '',
        'post_status' => 'draft',
        'post_author' => $user_id,
    );

This works because the post is generated after the user is created.