update_field() with repeater fields issue

• chrisg

• February 11, 2014 at 11:13 pm

Hi,
I’m having a problem updating/appending rows in repeater fields. I’m trying to migrate all data from one table into user meta and keep getting the following error.

Catchable fatal error: Object of class WP_Error could not be converted to string in C:\wamp\www\baca\wp-content\plugins\advanced-custom-fields\core\fields\_functions.php

I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong as I’m following the resources at http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/functions/update_field/ but not working. Below is the code I’m using. Can someone see whats wrong?

function add_members() {
	global $wpdb;
	$results = $wpdb->get_results( "SELECT * FROM members" ); 

	foreach($results as $row) {

		$new_user = array(
	        'user_login' => $row->CompanyName,
                'user_pass' => wp_generate_password ( 12, false ),
                'user_url' => $row->Website,
                'user_email' => $row->Email,
                'wp_capabilities' => 'Subscriber'
	    );

	    $pid = wp_insert_user($new_user);

	    if($pid) :

 		$field_key = "field_52f4fedbcdb79";
 		$post_id = $pid;
		$value = get_field($field_key, $post_id);
		$value[] = array(
			"more_contacts_name" => $row->ContactName, 
			"more_contacts_email" => $row->ContactEmail, 
			"acf_fc_layout" => "row_1"
		);
 		$value[] = array(
			"more_contacts_name" => $row->ContactName2, 
			"more_contacts_email" => $row->ContactEmail2, 
			"acf_fc_layout" => "row_2"
		);
		update_field( $field_key, $value, $post_id );
	    
	  endif;
	    
	}
}
add_action( 'edit_user_profile', 'add_members' );

• Elliot

• February 12, 2014 at 4:07 pm

Hi @chrisg

$post_id = $pid; should be $post_id = "user_{$pid}";

Please also debug your code before using the update_field function to make sure all the data is correct.

it is most likely that $pid is not what you think it is.

Thanks
E

• chrisg

• February 13, 2014 at 1:20 am

Brilliant, thanks Elliot. Thats solved it. I didn’t realise you had to add a prefix to the newly created user id. Seems pretty obvious now as the id could be for anything.

Thanks

• nitins

• February 19, 2014 at 8:33 pm

How to update the repeater sub field of each post.