Posting from frontend, get title from custom fields

• rozeh

• August 14, 2013 at 1:11 pm

I followed the instruction on how to set up posting from front end.

It’s working except my site’s posts doesn’t really have titles and gets the title from the custom fields I set up in acf.

Here’s my wp_insert_post code

function my_pre_save_post( $post_id )
{
    // check if this is to be a new post
    if( $post_id != 'new' )
    {
        return $post_id;
    }
 
    // Create a new post
    $post = array(
        'post_status'  => 'publish' ,
        'post_title'  => get_post_meta($post->ID, "pickup_date", true). ' - ' .get_post_meta($post->ID, "leaving_from", true). ' to ' .get_post_meta($post->ID, "going_to", true),
        'post_type'  => 'rides' ,
    );  
 
    // insert the post
    $post_id = wp_insert_post( $post ); 
 
    // return the new ID
    return $post_id;
}
 
add_filter('acf/pre_save_post' , 'my_pre_save_post' );

I think this part is the problem:

'post_title' => get_post_meta($post->ID, "pickup_date", true). ' - ' .get_post_meta($post->ID, "leaving_from", true). ' to ' .get_post_meta($post->ID, "going_to", true),

it doesn’t work. it doesn’t get the custom fields. I also tried to use get_field and the_field. Nothing has work yet.

Is there a way to make it work? Am I missing something?

Thank you.

• Elliot

• August 14, 2013 at 2:37 pm

Hi @rozeh

The code deos not work because you are trying to load data from a post which has not yet been saved!

You need to look in the $_POST array to find the posted data

Good luck!
Cheers
E

• rozeh

• August 14, 2013 at 2:42 pm

How can I do that? Sorry my php is limited. If you can show me the code. It will be a great help.

Thank you very much.

EDIT I’m not sure i you’ll read this but I guess it’s better than adding a new reply but I finally fixed it.

You are correct in about $_POST variable, I actually tried to use it days ago but it didn’t work.. because I was doing it wrong – wit the field_key or input name.

I tried using
$_POST[fields[field_51fc91fcd78f0]]
but didn’t work.

Upon searching just now, I found a thread here with the correct way which is
$_POST["fields"]['field_51fc91fcd78f0']

And it works!

Thank you! 🙂