[Resolved] Set the post expiry date to the "Date of event" field?

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[John Chandler]

Hi,

I am trying to: Automatically set the post expiry date to the "Event Start" date field, this is to prevent users from seeing old events which are in the directory.

I expected to see: An option to do this easily and be able to set the expiry date to a field created in Toolset

Instead, I got: Just an option of how many days,weeks,months and years until expiry. I would like to auto-set the date based on the date of the event happening.

In essence I would like: User adds event to the directory -> event show on directory until the event date -> post is removed from the directory on the date the event starts.

Please can you help? 😀

Thanks,
John

[Luo Yang]

Dear John,

There isn't such a built-in feature within CRED form, CRED is using a hidden field "_cred_post_expiration_time" to store value of "Post Expiry date" in time-stamp format,
So you can try these:
1) When user submit the CRED form in front-end, use CRED action hook "cred_save_data" to trigger a PHP function
https://toolset.com/documentation/programmer-reference/cred-api/#cred_save_data

2) In the custom PHP function, update custom field "_cred_post_expiration_time" value as the custom date field value
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/update_post_meta

[John Chandler]

Is it possible for someone to help me do this?

I do not have PHP experience so would not know how to embed this. It should be a very simple function which you would think is included with the package. Given there is already a post-expiry function no?

Thanks,
John

[Luo Yang]

For example, you can try to add below codes into your theme/functions.php:

//Set the post expiry date to the "Date of event" field
add_action('cred_save_data','set_expiration_func',10,2);
function set_expiration_func($post_id,$form_data) {
    if ($form_data['id']== 123) {
        $event_start = get_post_meta($post_id, 'wpcf-event-start', true);
        if($event_start){
			update_post_meta($post_id, '_cred_post_expiration_time', $event_start);
		}
    }
}

Please replace 123 with your CRED form ID, replace "wpcf-event-start" with the field slug of "Event Start" date field

[manishB-2]

Hi Support Team,
I have a quick question for your above function, As I can see, the above function allows to add the "wpcf-event-start" dateto be considered as expiry date and As I understand, this function will automatically set "wpcf-event-start" date value as default expiry date. But as I see in the function, It needs form ID(TOOLSET POST FORM) but for my case, I use third party form to add posts from frontend, I have an idea to create custom field and in the third party form, I can automatically save current date and then when form is submitted then and the custom fieldis filled with a date value then this custom function can trigger and update "cred_post_expiration_time" based on the value I got in the custom field?

Please let me know

//Set the post expiry date to the "Date of event" field
add_action('cred_save_data','set_expiration_func',10,2);
function set_expiration_func($post_id,$form_data) {
    if ($form_data['id']== 123) {
        $event_start = get_post_meta($post_id, 'wpcf-event-start', true);
        if($event_start){
            update_post_meta($post_id, '_cred_post_expiration_time', $event_start);
        }
    }
}