Querying all posts send by non-login user to a specific author

• Jamescarter4

• July 30, 2016 at 12:55 am

I made acf front end submission form on single.php page for a lists of companies who sign up on my site.
The form is for non login clients to send message for each company via single.php.
I want each company to see all posts(messages) sent by their clients , after logging in
This is code i wrote.

<?php $user = get_current_user_id();

$args = array(‘post_type’=>’companies’,’author’=>$user, );
$query = new WP_Query($args);?>
<?php while ($query->have_posts() ) :
$query->the_post();?>

<p><?php echo the_field(‘name’)?></p>
<p><?php the_field(‘Message’);?></p>

<?php endwhile; wp_reset_query();// end of the loop. ?>

BUt IT IS NOT WORKING

• James

• July 30, 2016 at 1:33 pm

Hi @jamescarter4

I’m not sure how your current setup is, so I’ll assume that the messages are stored as a custom post type called “message”. With this setup, you need to update the post author of the newly created messages with the companies ID.

It should be something like this:

function my_acf_save_post_change_author( $post_id ) {
    
    // Get the company's user ID (depends on how you set it)
    $company_id = 2;
    
    // Only do this if posted from front end
    if( !is_admin() ){
        
        // Get the post object
        $the_post = get_post($post_id);
        
        // Check the post type
        if( $the_post->post_type == 'message' ){

            // Set the data you want to update
            $my_post = array(
              'ID' => $post_id,
              'post_author' => $company_id,
            );
            
            // Remove action to avoid infinite loop
            remove_action('acf/save_post', 'my_acf_save_post_change_author', 20);
            
            // Update the post into the database
            wp_update_post( $my_post );
            
            // Add the action back
            add_action('acf/save_post', 'my_acf_save_post_change_author', 20);
        
        }
        
    }
    
}

// run after ACF saves the $_POST['acf'] data
add_action('acf/save_post', 'my_acf_save_post_change_author', 20);

After that you can query it like this:

$args = array( 'post_type'=>'message','author'=>$user );

I hope this helps 🙂

• Jamescarter4

• July 30, 2016 at 6:23 pm

Thanks a lot.
But the code is still not working.

There are very many companies who are signing up . How can i get all their ID’s dynamically without using

// Get the company’s user ID (depends on how you set it)
$company_id = 2;

Its like the post author of the newly created messages is not updating with the companies ID.

The query $args = array( ‘post_type’=>’message’,’author’=>$user );
Is returning nothing

• Jamescarter4

• July 30, 2016 at 6:49 pm

This is the codes i wrote for front end submission form that appears in all the companies single.php page for the clients

<?php
while(have_posts()):the_post();
acf_form(array(
‘post_id’ => ‘new_post’,
‘post_title’ => true,

‘post_content’ => false,
‘field_groups’ => array(648),
‘form’ => true,
‘new_post’ => array(
‘post_status’ => ‘publish’,
‘post_type’=>’message’,),

‘submit_value’ => ‘Submit’,
‘updated_message’ => ‘Thanks, you have successfully submitted your posts ‘
));endwhile ?>

//This is the code for querrying all messages sent by clients for a specific company’s dashboard page(dasboard.php) the company admin login.
<?php
$user = get_current_user_id();
$args = array(
‘post_type’=>’message’,
‘author’=>$user,

);
$query = new WP_Query($args);?>

<?php while ($query ->have_posts() ) : $query ->the_post(); ?>

<p><?php the_field(‘name’);?></p>
<p><?php the_field(‘subject’);?></p>

<?php endwhile; wp_reset_query();// end of the loop. ?>

// This is the codes for updating client of the newly created messages with the companies ID. (functions.php)

function my_acf_save_post_change_author( $post_id ) {

// Get the company’s user ID (depends on how you set it)
$company_id = 2;

// Only do this if posted from front end
if( !is_admin() ){

// Get the post object
$the_post = get_post($post_id);

// Check the post type
if( $the_post->post_type == ‘message’ ){

// Set the data you want to update
$my_post = array(
‘ID’ => $post_id,
‘post_author’ => $company_id,
);

// Remove action to avoid infinite loop
remove_action(‘acf/save_post’, ‘my_acf_save_post_change_author’, 20);

// Update the post into the database
wp_update_post( $my_post );

// Add the action back
add_action(‘acf/save_post’, ‘my_acf_save_post_change_author’, 20);

}

}

}

// run after ACF saves the $_POST[‘acf’] data
add_action(‘acf/save_post’, ‘my_acf_save_post_change_author’, 20);

• James

• August 1, 2016 at 2:06 pm

Hi @jamescarter4

As I said, it depends on how you set it. For example, if you have a post for a company, you can use the user field to set the user associated with that post. Then I believe you can get the company’s user ID like this:

global $post;
$company_id = get_field('company_user_field_name', $post->ID, false);

If that doesn’t work, you can always add hidden input by using the html_after_fields option like this:

'html_after_fields' => '<input type="hidden" name="companyid" value="'. get_the_ID() .'">',

And then get the company ID like this:

$company_id = get_field('company_user_field_name', $_POST['companyid'], false);

Also, could you please try to set the $company_id manually to your account’s ID and check if the query shows the messages for you?

Thanks 🙂