Help with acf/save_post – REST API to ACF v2

• deset

• September 18, 2016 at 5:01 am

Hi,

Hopefully this issue is straightforward to resolve.

I’ve got a powershell script that posts to my WP installation via REST API which works great. It creates a new post in one post request, then a second post request is called to add data to ACF fields with the help of airesvsg’s REST API to ACF v2 plugin.

Now what I need is once the ACF fields are updated (on the second request), for an email to be fired out.

When using save_post, it works fine and triggers an email, although as this doesn’t yet contain ACF data, nothing goes out.

Now when using acf/save_post nothing happens until I actually go into the post and click update. Looking at the REST API to ACF github and docs, there’s nothing that specifies if I should be using a different action.

Any ideas?

Code below:

	function email_alerts($post_id) {
		if( get_field('enabled','options') ) {
			if( get_field('email',$post_id)) {
				
				$e_status1 	= 	get_field('primary_online',$post_id);
				$e_status2 	= 	get_field('primary_active',$post_id);
				$e_status3 	= 	get_field('backup_online',$post_id);
				$e_status4 	= 	get_field('backup_active',$post_id);
				$e_datetime = 	get_field('date_time',$post_id);
				$e_brand	= 	get_field('brand',$post_id);
				$e_siteid 	= 	get_field('site_id',$post_id);
				$e_ip 		=	get_field('ip',$post_id);
				$e_url		=	get_site_url();
				$e_site		=	get_the_title( $post_id );
				$e_alerts 	= 	get_field('alerts','options');
			
			
				if( $e_alerts && in_array('all', $e_alerts) && $e_status1 = "False" && $e_status3 = "False" ) {
					$subject1 = 'System Alert - ' . $e_siteid . ' ' . $e_site . ' - Primary and Backup Offline';
					$body1 = 'This is an automated alert sent from ' . $e_url . ' regarding ' . $e_brand . ' ' . $e_site;
					$email1 = get_field('email_recipients', 'options');
					$headers1 = array('Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8','From: Someone <[email protected]>');
					wp_mail($email1, $subject1, $body1, $headers1 );								
				} 
				
				if( $e_alerts && in_array('pri', $e_alerts) && $e_status1 = "False" && $e_status3 = "True") {
					$subject2 = 'System Alert - ' . $e_siteid . ' ' . $e_site . ' - Primary Offline';
					$body2 = 'This is an automated alert sent from ' . $e_url . ' regarding ' . $e_brand . ' ' . $e_site;	
					$email2 = get_field('email_recipients', 'options');
					$headers2 = array('Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8','From: Someone <[email protected]>');
					wp_mail($email2, $subject2, $body2, $headers2 );					
				}
				
				if( $e_alerts && in_array('sec', $e_alerts) && $e_status3 = "True" && $e_status3 = "False") {
					$subject3 = 'System Alert - ' . $e_siteid . ' ' . $e_site . '- Backup Offline';
					$body3 = 'This is an automated alert sent from ' . $e_url . ' regarding ' . $e_brand . ' ' . $e_site;	
					$email3 = get_field('email_recipients', 'options');
					$headers3 = array('Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8','From: Someone <[email protected]>');
					wp_mail($email3, $subject3, $body3, $headers3 );				
				}
			
			}
		}
	}	
	add_action( 'acf/save_post', 'email_alerts', 20);

• pirony

• September 22, 2016 at 5:05 am

Hi deset,
stuck with the same issue here… did you find a trick to avoid this problem?

• Vasili

• September 23, 2016 at 7:58 pm

I have the same thing using the acf/save_post. Field value saved only after i hit the Update button a second time.

• deset

• September 23, 2016 at 8:10 pm

No luck so far unfortunately. I emailed the REST to ACF plugin author (who replied very quickly!) and he confirmed there currently isn’t an action to indicate an item was saved. His only suggestion was a filter that runs prior to saving ACF.

add_action('acf/rest_api/post/prepare_item', function($item, $request){
	// do something	
}, 10, 2);

Not too sure if that would help anyone else – if someone finds a creative solution please let me know!

For the time being, I’m thinking of just setting up a CRON job to email every x amount of minutes/hours.