[Resolved] Affect an image field as featured image for a product

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[Pat]

Hello,

I have created a custom image field (wpcf-image-princ) for a product and a Cred form where users can create products in the frontend. In order to simplify the creation, I would like to use this custom image field (wpcf-image-princ) as feature image (meaning, when the user fills the custom image field, then both (wpcf-image-princ) and product features image are saved with the uploaded image).
How can I do this?
Regards
Pat

[Nigel Supporter Languages: English (English ) Spanish (Español ) Timezone: Europe/London (GMT+01:00)]

Hi Pat

You can use the cred_save_data hook to set the _thumbnail_id post meta for the published post.

When you add a custom image field to your form the image is added as a post. The field stores the URL of the image file, but we need the ID of the related post, so we need a little custom code snippet to get that.

Here's what you need (I trust you can edit the slug of your custom field, and note the hook I use contains the id of the form to save testing for it):

/**
 * Set custom image field as featured image
 */
function custom_featured_image( $post_id, $form_data ) {

	// get the custom image field (stored as url)
	$image_url = get_post_meta( $post_id, "wpcf-custom-image", true );

	// get the id of this image post
	global $wpdb;
	$attachment = $wpdb->get_col($wpdb->prepare("SELECT ID FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE guid='%s';", $image_url ));

	// set the _thumbnail_id post meta with this id
	update_post_meta( $post_id, '_thumbnail_id', $attachment[0] );

}
add_action( 'cred_save_data_16', 'custom_featured_image', 10, 2 );

[Pat]

Hi NIgel
Only one word : Perfect!
Regards
Pat