Issue with wp_new_comment and update_field (not all the fields are updated)

• [email protected]

• September 9, 2020 at 10:58 am

Hello. I have an issue with wp_new_comment and update_field.

I am using it in this form:

On submit I call this function:

function submit_comment() {
	$data = $_POST;
	print_r($data);
	$commentdata = array(
		'comment_post_ID'      => $data['post_id'],
		'comment_content'      => $data['comment_text'],
		'comment_type'         => 'comment',
		'user_ID'              => $data['user_id'],
	);

	$new_comment = wp_new_comment( $commentdata );
	if($new_comment && !empty($data['rating'])) {
	        foreach ($data['rating'] as $key => $value) {
	            echo $key.' '.$value.' '.$new_comment.'';
	            update_field($key,$value,'comment_'.$new_comment);
            }
    }
	die;
}

as you can see everything is passing and printing from my rating fields:

the names of the fields are the same as in the comment form backend:

but somehow I get updated only these two fields:

I would understand if they were updated randomly, but WHY only these two fields? What’s wrong with the others?

When I tried to use a WP standard comment_form function with acf uncluded, everything was updated.

May be the function has to have a sort of timeout so the update_field functions doesn’t stop?

• [email protected]

• September 9, 2020 at 12:07 pm

I have changed the field name to field key in my “get rating fields” function:

function get_comment_rating_fields($group_id) {
	$rating = acf_get_fields($group_id);
	$rating_fields = array();
	foreach ($rating as $item) {
		$rating_fields[] = array(
			'field_label' => $item['label'],
			'field_name' => $item['key'],
			'field_min' => $item['min'],
			'field_max' => $item['max']
		);
	}
	return $rating_fields;
}

and everything is fine now!