[Resolved] Can not update parent field when submitting a child form

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[nabils]

Hi,
I am trying to:

I have parent post rental with field balance and child post payment with field payment amount. When new payment form is submitted I want to subtract the payment amount from the balance and update balance filed in rental post.

I am using this code but it is not working.

add_action('cred_save_data', 'balance_calculation',10,2);

function balance_calculation($post_id, $form_data)

{
 if ( $form_data['id']==1332 ){
	$payment_for = get_post_meta($post_id, "wpcf-payment_for", true);
	$payment_amount = get_post_meta($post_id, "wpcf-payment_amount", true);
	$rental_id = toolset_get_related_post( $post_id, "rental-payment" );
	$balance = get_post_meta($rental_id, "wpcf-rental_balance", true);
	$balance = $balance - $payment_amount;
	update_post_meta($rental_id, "wpcf-rental_balance", $balance);
}
}

[Nigel]

I suggest you add error_log messages to your code that output the variables at each step and it should enable you to determine why it is not working.

If you haven't already, turn on the debug log by editing your wp-config.php file and change the line with WP_DEBUG like so:

define('WP_DEBUG', true);
define('WP_DEBUG_LOG', true);
define('WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY', false);
define('WP_DISABLE_FATAL_ERROR_HANDLER',true);

That will create a debug.log file in your /wp-content/ directory which you can examine in any text editor.

Update your code snippet to print the variables to the log, e.g.

error_log("payment_for: " . $payment_for);

Although I don't think it applies here, in cases where the variable may be an object or array, it's useful to output using print_r for readability, e.g.

error_log('object: ' . print_r($object, true));

[nabils]

Thank you.

Now I can see that it is not getting the payment parent so

  $rental_id = toolset_get_related_post( $post_id, "rental-payment" ); 

is not working.
What can be the problem?

[Nigel]

The rental-payment relationship is a one-to-many relationship?

$post_id is the ID of a child post, and you are trying to retrieve the id of the parent rental post?

If this were a many-to-many relationship it cannot work with the toolset_get_related_post function, which only works when there is only one possible result (the singular parent). If there were more than one possible result (because you were aiming to retrieve a child post ID or because this was a many-to-many relationship) you would need to use toolset_get_related_posts instead (https://toolset.com/documentation/customizing-sites-using-php/post-relationships-api/#toolset_get_related_posts).

Can you clarify the above?

[nabils]

The rental-payment relationship is one to many relationship (Infinite Payments can be assigned to one Rental)

[Nigel]

In which case toolset_get_related_post is the correct function to use.

It only takes two arguments, the ID of the child post and the slug of the relationship.

Assuming these are correct, that leads to a third possibility: there is no parent post.

1. Does the form to publish a child post include a selector for the parent post?
2. Is it set when submitting the form?
3. After submitting the form if you edit the child post in the backend, can you see that the child post is actually connected to a parent post?

[nabils]

Yes the child form includes a selector for the parent post and after submitting the form I can see that the payment is connected to the correct rental.

[Nigel]

Hmm. Perhaps Forms internally uses the same hook to connect the posts, and when your code runs the connection has not yet been made.

You might try raising the priority of the hook, so change the 10 priority to, say, 999...

add_action( 'cred_save_data', 'balance_calculation', 999, 2 );

Or you could switch to the cred_submit_complete hook (same arguments: https://toolset.com/documentation/programmer-reference/cred-api/#cred_submit_complete).

Can you try that..?

[nabils]

Many thanks.
When I used

add_action( 'cred_submit_complete', 'balance_calculation', 999, 2 );

it works fine.

[nabils]

My issue is resolved now. Thank you!