How do I populate user field with permalink?

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Problem: I have a Form that is used to create a new post. I also have a custom field on the User's profile that will be used to hold a URL. I would like to take the permalink URL of the new post and save it in the User URL field using the Forms API cred_submit_complete.

Solution: Use update_user_meta to set the value of a User custom field. Use get_permalink to get the permalink of the new post that was just created.

add_action('cred_submit_complete', 'after_save_data_form_529',10,2);
function after_save_data_form_529($post_id, $form_data) {
      
    if ($form_data['id']==529) {
      
    $user_id = get_current_user_id();   
    $permalink = get_permalink($post_id); 
    update_user_meta( $user_id, 'wpcf-post-slug', $permalink);
    }
}

Relevant Documentation:
https://toolset.com/documentation/programmer-reference/cred-api/#cred_submit_complete
https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_permalink/
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/update_user_meta

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Last updated by julieP 6 years, 3 months ago.

Assisted by: Christian Cox.

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August 11, 2018 at 11:05 am #1080238

julieP

Title says it all!

The user will only ever create one instance of the post type. I've tried like this but it's not working:-

add_action('cred_submit_complete', 'after_save_data_form_529',10,2);
function after_save_data_form_529($post_id, $form_data) {
	
    if ($form_data['id']==529) {
	
	$user_id = get_current_user_id();	
	$slug = get_post_field($post_id, 'post_name', true); 
	add_user_meta( $user_id, 'wpcf-post-slug', $slug);
	}
}

Any ideas please? Thanks

August 12, 2018 at 4:57 pm #1080677

Christian Cox

Are you trying to save the permalink, or the post slug? The title of this ticket says permalink, but the code says slug. If you want the permalink, try this:

add_action('cred_submit_complete', 'after_save_data_form_529',10,2);
function after_save_data_form_529($post_id, $form_data) {
     
    if ($form_data['id']==529) {
     
    $user_id = get_current_user_id();   
    $permalink = get_permalink($post_id); 
    update_user_meta( $user_id, 'wpcf-post-slug', $permalink);
    }
}

August 13, 2018 at 8:18 am #1081121

julieP

Sorry that was a bit ambiguous! I had in mind to use the post slug but I can work with either so this does just what I need, thank you.

I'm still curious as to why my code to extract the slug didn't work. It would be handy to know as I have another requirement where using the slug would be preferable to the permalink.

Many thanks

August 13, 2018 at 2:08 pm #1081402

Christian Cox

Maybe it was the third parameter of your get_post_field call. "true" is not an accepted value, according to the documentation here:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_post_field

August 13, 2018 at 3:13 pm #1081477

julieP

Ah, yes - thank you!!

Sometimes I can't see the wood for the trees 🙂