Relationship of dynamically created child post

This thread is resolved. Here is a description of the problem and solution.

Problem: I am creating a post programmatically and I would like to link that post to another post using a post relationship.

Solution: Get the ID of the inserted post and use that in a toolset_connect_posts API call to connect the related posts.

//Create dynamic meeting room bookings
add_action('cred_submit_complete_2147', 'meeting_booking_times_submit',10,2);
function meeting_booking_times_submit($post_id, $form_data)
{
// Create post object
$my_post = array(
'post_title' => 'dynamic',
'post_status' => 'publish',
'post_type' => 'booking-times',
);

// Insert the post into the database
$my_post_id = wp_insert_post( $my_post );
toolset_connect_posts( 'meeting-room-booking-meeting-room-booking-times', $post_id, $my_post_id );
}

Relevant Documentation:
https://toolset.com/documentation/customizing-sites-using-php/post-relationships-api/#toolset_connect_posts

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This topic contains 2 replies, has 2 voices.

Last updated by ahmedI 6 years, 4 months ago.

Assisted by: Christian Cox.

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August 12, 2018 at 3:56 pm #1080658

ahmedI

Hi,

I'm trying to dynamically create post children while saving of the parent post. i need to set the relationship with the creation of the child post using the following code which is not working as expected:

add_action('cred_submit_complete_2147', 'meeting_booking_times_submit',10,2);
function meeting_booking_times_submit($post_id, $form_data)
{
// Create post object
$my_post = array(
'post_title' => 'dynamic',
'post_status' => 'publish',
'post_type' => 'booking-times',
);

// Insert the post into the database
wp_insert_post( $my_post );
toolset_connect_posts( 'meeting-room-booking-meeting-room-booking-times', $post_id, $my_post->ID );
}

Thanks.

August 12, 2018 at 8:01 pm #1080697

Christian Cox

I think the problem is you're trying to get the post ID from $my_post, but $my_post is not a post object. It is an array of attributes you pass into the wp_insert_post function. Instead, you can check the return value of the wp_insert_post function.

Get the post ID like this:

$my_post_id = wp_insert_post( $my_post );
toolset_connect_posts( 'meeting-room-booking-meeting-room-booking-times', $post_id, $my_post_id );

Check the documentation here for an example:
https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_insert_post/#comment-401

August 13, 2018 at 7:29 am #1081091

ahmedI

Hi Christian,

Thanks a lot for your help, what you suggested is absolutely right and everything is now working perfectly.

Here is the final code for later reference:

//Create dynamic meeting room bookings
add_action('cred_submit_complete_2147', 'meeting_booking_times_submit',10,2);
function meeting_booking_times_submit($post_id, $form_data)
{
// Create post object
$my_post = array(
'post_title' => 'dynamic',
'post_status' => 'publish',
'post_type' => 'booking-times',
);

// Insert the post into the database
$my_post_id = wp_insert_post( $my_post );
toolset_connect_posts( 'meeting-room-booking-meeting-room-booking-times', $post_id, $my_post_id );
}