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    • May 3, 2016 at 3:38 am #6415
      mcmaster
      Member

      I have a front-end form that creates a post. The post is created just fine and I can see the input data in $_POST, but how do I access the ID of the newly-created post so I can do something with it?

      I’m using 0.9.9.8. In 0.9.5v, the new ID showed up in a hidden ID field, but now that field is empty: 

      piklist('field', array(
	'type' => 'hidden',
	'field' => 'ID',
	'scope' => 'post',
	'required' => false,
));

      I tried the new-post-with-validation.php form in piklist-demos, but its $_POST results don’t include an ID field.

      Thanks for any clues as I’ve been banging my head on this for an hour!

      Donna

    • May 3, 2016 at 10:58 am #6419
      Jason
      Keymaster

      Hi Donna!

      That’s no good. That’s obviously important.

      I’m looking into this. Can you please verify that if you look in $_GET instead of $_POST you’re not seeing the ID in there, either? The $_POST will contain the results of the form, but it looks like the fields are also being stored in the query var of the redirect url.

      Thanks!

    • May 3, 2016 at 12:40 pm #6420
      mcmaster
      Member

      Jason, thanks so much! The ID is not in either. I started looking at $_POST and then switched to $_REQUEST to make sure I wasn’t missing anything in $_GET. But nothing is coming via $_GET.

      I started out using a redirect field, but I was receiving nothing at the target, so then I removed the redirect and just put a piklist::pre( $_REQUEST ) in the beginning of the form page. Here’s what I get: 

      Array
(
    [_post] => Array
        (
            [post_type] => ticket
            [post_status] => draft
            [post_title] => Donna Test
            [ID] => 
        )

    [_post_meta] => Array
        (
            [phone] => 541-738-2973
            [email] => [email protected]
            [tickets_season] => Array
                (
                    [0] => 2
                )

            [tickets_c1878] => Array
                (
                    [0] => 0
                )

            [tickets_c1897] => Array
                (
                    [0] => 0
                )

            [tickets_c1899] => Array
                (
                    [0] => 0
                )

            [tickets_c1931] => Array
                (
                    [0] => 1
                )

            [donation] => 
            [address_1] => 123 X
            [address_2] => 
            [city_state] => Portland OR
            [total_due] => 130
            [total_paid] => 0
        )

    [submit] => Review Order
    [_] => Array
        (
            [form_id] => theme_ticket_order_form
            [nonce] => 19175e9a65
            [fields] => 6615d42e5a870dacde95e626deea7ee2
        )

)

      That’s when I have the hidden ID field in the form; if I remove that field I have no ID column in the _post array.

      Donna

    • May 3, 2016 at 12:49 pm #6421
      mcmaster
      Member

      I just simplified the form as it had a lot of code used to figure out what the ticketable events are: 

      <?php
/*  
Title: Test Order Form
Method: post
Message: Data saved as a post of type ticket.
*/

// Set where to save this form
piklist('field', array(
	'type' => 'hidden',
	'scope' => 'post',
	'field' => 'post_type',
	'value' => 'ticket',
));

piklist('field', array(
	'type' => 'hidden',
	'scope' => 'post',
	'field' => 'post_status',
	'value' => 'draft',
));

// Collect information
piklist('field', array(
	'type' => 'text',
	'scope' => 'post', // post_title is in the wp_posts table
	'field' => 'post_title',
	'label' => 'Name',
	'columns' => 10,
	'required' => true
));

piklist('field', array(
	'type' => 'text',
	'scope' => 'post_meta',
	'field' => 'phone',
	'label' => 'Phone',
	'columns' => 10,
	'required' => true,
));

// New post ID
piklist('field', array(
	'type' => 'hidden',
	'field' => 'ID',
	'scope' => 'post',
	'required' => false,
));

// Submit button
piklist('field', array(
	'type' => 'submit',
	'field' => 'submit',
	'value' => 'Review Order',
	'attributes' => array(
		'class' => 'btn btn-default',
	),
));
    • May 3, 2016 at 12:50 pm #6422
      mcmaster
      Member

      Posted $_RESULT for the simplified form:

      Array
(
    [_post] => Array
        (
            [post_type] => ticket
            [post_status] => draft
            [post_title] => Donna Test
            [ID] => 
        )

    [_post_meta] => Array
        (
            [phone] => 555-555-1212
        )

    [submit] => Review Order
    [_] => Array
        (
            [form_id] => theme_ticket_order_form
            [nonce] => 409df09d78
            [fields] => 77fa371f86f4a61bb87df398d2260f27
        )

)
    • May 3, 2016 at 6:24 pm #6424
      mcmaster
      Member

      Kevin explained that because a form can now create multiple objects, the ID field doesn’t work any more. He suggested using a couple of hooks to grab the ID and stick it into the redirect URL. Here are the functions that did the job. (If you’re not doing a redirect, you’ll just need the first one.)

      add_action( 'piklist_save_field-post', 'my_grab_new_post_id' );
function my_grab_new_post_id ( $fields ) {
	global $mcw_new_post_id;
	$my_new_post_id = $fields['ID']['object_id'];
}

add_filter( 'wp_redirect', 'my_stick_new_post_id_in_redirect', 10, 2 );
function my_stick_new_post_id_in_redirect ( $location, $status ) {
	global $my_new_post_id;
	return( $location."?ID=$my_new_post_id" );
}
      • December 12, 2021 at 9:52 pm #11378
        xolotl
        Member

        Greetings fellow Piklisters! Perhaps I’m being dense, but I’m still not seeing how to redirect a user to a new post they’ve made via a Piklist front-end form.

        I see @sbruner has suggested the Redirect parameter in the form comment block, but while I can see Redirects to static URLs working, I don’t see any hints on how to use the Redirect parameter to redirect to the new post created by a front-end form.

        I’ve also tried @mcmaster’s solution above, but have not been able to use it to generate the actual ID of the new post. Though this doesn’t solve the issue, I wonder if there are some typos in that code.

        Shouldn’t global $mcw_new_post_id; be global $my_new_post_id;?

        Shouldn’t return( $location."?ID=$my_new_post_id" ); be return( $location."?ID=".$my_new_post_id" );?

    • May 4, 2016 at 2:13 pm #6429
      Jason
      Keymaster

      Glad Kevin was able to clear it up. Thanks for posting the solution here!

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