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    • December 20, 2016 at 12:46 am #7678
      friendlyfire3
      Member

      I scoured the forums but couldn’t find anything definitive. Is it possible to relate a user to a post (without making them the author)?

      If so, how is it done? I couldn’t find any tutorial in the docs but saw a few things on it like this: https://piklist.com/support/topic/post-to-user-relationships/

      I tried :

      <?php
/*
Title: Post Relate
Post Type: 
*/

piklist('field', array(
    'type' => 'post-relate'
    ,'scope' => 'user'
    
    ,'template' => 'field'
  ));
  
?>

      but that doesn’t work. I also tried using user_meta in the scope but it’s not working. Any help is appreciated.

    • December 22, 2016 at 11:13 am #7687
      Steve
      Keymaster

      Assuming this is in wp-admin, and when creating/editing a post. Try this (untested):

      piklist('field', array(
  'type' => 'group'
  ,'scope' => 'user'
  ,'label' => 'User'
  ,'relate' => array(
    'scope' => 'post'
  )
  ,'fields' => array(
    array(
      'type' => 'text'
      ,'label' => 'Login'
      ,'field' => 'user_login'
      ,'columns' => 6
    )
  )
));

// Display related users
$related = get_users(array(
  'order' => 'DESC'
  ,'user_belongs' => $post->ID
  ,'user_relate' => 'post'
));
?>

<?php if ($related): ?>

  <h4><?php _e('Related Users', 'piklist-demo');?></h4>

  <ol>
    <?php foreach ($related as $related_user): ?>
      <li><?php _e($related_user->user_login); ?></li>
    <?php endforeach; ?>
 </ol>

<?php endif; ?>
    • January 2, 2017 at 10:06 am #7708
      friendlyfire3
      Member

      Thanks, Steve and happy new year!

      This just seems to create an empty field on the view in wp-admin. I tried changing the type to checkbox but notta.

      Any suggestions or do you have any learning guides on the relate system? I can only seem to find things in the forum and only in bits and pieces.

    • January 17, 2017 at 5:15 pm #7726
      Steve
      Keymaster

      @friendlyfire3– you would enter the user login into that text field.

      If you want to display a dropdown of users to choose from, this tutorial should help >

    • February 17, 2017 at 8:01 pm #7795
      friendlyfire3
      Member

      Hey Steve, sorry to drudge up this post but took some time off and just getting back to this.

      How would I go about getting a list of posts related to the user on the frontend?

      I’ve tried this (some code excluded for brevity):

        

    $user_id = get_current_user_id();
    $key = '__relate_post';
    $single = false;

  $user_posts = get_user_meta($user_id, $key, $single );

$related_proposals = get_posts(array(
      'post_type' => 'proposal' // Set post type you are relating to.
      ,'posts_per_page' => -1
      ,'post_belongs' => $user_id
      ,'post_status' => 'publish'
      ,'suppress_filters' => false // This must be set to false
  ));
  

  $output = '';

  if (!empty($related_proposals) ) { 
 
      $output .= '<ul>';

      foreach($related_proposals as $related_proposal) {
        $output .= '<li><a href="'.get_post_permalink($related_proposal->ID).'">'.$related_proposal->post_title.'</a></li>';
      }
      
      $output .= '</ul>';
  }

return $output

      The above returns absolutely nothing.

      and then I tried this:

        

    $user_id = get_current_user_id();
    $key = '__relate_post';
    $single = false;

  $user_posts = get_user_meta($user_id, $key, $single );

$related_proposals = get_posts(array(
      'post_type' => 'proposal' // Set post type you are relating to.
      ,'posts_per_page' => -1
      ,'post_belongs' => $user_posts
      ,'post_status' => 'publish'
      ,'suppress_filters' => false // This must be set to false
  ));
  

  $output = '';

  if (!empty($related_proposals) ) { 
 
      $output .= '<ul>';

      foreach($related_proposals as $related_proposal) {
        $output .= '<li><a href="'.get_post_permalink($related_proposal->ID).'">'.$related_proposal->post_title.'</a></li>';
      }
      
      $output .= '</ul>';
  }

return $output

      This returns all posts for the type- not just the ones associated.

      And then tried this:

        

    $user_id = get_current_user_id();
    $key = '__relate_post';
    $single = false;

  $user_posts = get_user_meta($user_id, $key, $single );

$related_proposals = get_posts(array(
      'post_type' => 'proposal' // Set post type you are relating to.
      ,'posts_per_page' => -1
      ,'include' => $user_posts
      ,'post_status' => 'publish'
      ,'suppress_filters' => false // This must be set to false
  ));
  

  $output = '';

  if (!empty($related_proposals) ) { 
 
      $output .= '<ul>';

      foreach($related_proposals as $related_proposal) {
        $output .= '<li><a href="'.get_post_permalink($related_proposal->ID).'">'.$related_proposal->post_title.'</a></li>';
      }
      
      $output .= '</ul>';
  }

return $output

      and using “include” rather than post_belongs works but if there’s no ids in the array from the user meta, then all posts show up.

      None of these do what I intend. I just want to show only the posts that we’ve related to the user.

      You really need better docs on this relate stuff! 😉

    • March 17, 2017 at 10:41 am #7846
      friendlyfire3
      Member

      Bump. Any suggestions on this?

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