[Resolved] Getting parent post ID sent to user custom field upon Post CRED form submission

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[julienL-5]

Please note this is a different problem but a follow-up on this thread: https://toolset.com/forums/topic/assigning-parent-posts-on-a-cred-form-based-on-author-as-current-user/

Context:
2 CPTs: book, reco-book and book is parent of reco-book
1 CRED form to create a new reco-book positioned on the book post

I am trying to use cred_save_data to record the book parent post id of the reco-book post created through the form into a repeating custom user field named recommended-book-ids.

Here is the code I am using:

add_action('cred_save_data_160', 'jln_add_book_id',10,2);
function jln_add_book_id($post_id, $form_data)
{
$user_id = get_current_user_id();
$parent_id = get_post_meta($post_id, '_wpcf_belongs_book_id');
add_user_meta($user_id, 'wpcf-recommended-book-ids', $parent_id);
}
?>

Every time I just get a blank field created and I can't figure out what is wrong 🙁 I have tried to use $post_id directly instead of the $parent_id variable defined here, which works but of course records the reco-book id instead of the book id.

Would you be able to point out where I am wrong?

Many thanks!

Best,
- Julien

[Noman]

Hi Julien,

Thank you for contacting Toolset support. Please remove the code you have added, and use this updated code:

add_action('cred_save_data_160', 'jln_add_book_id',10,2);
function jln_add_book_id($post_id, $form_data)
{
$user_id = get_current_user_id();
$parent_id = get_post_meta($post_id, '_wpcf_belongs_book_id', true);
add_user_meta($user_id, 'wpcf-recommended-book-ids', $parent_id);
}

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Thankyou

[julienL-5]

Many thanks Noman, that's working perfectly 🙂 I thought the "true" was optional but I was obviously wrong 🙂

Many thanks!

Best,
- Julien