Hi Brajesh

I’ve made a start on attempting to update my Event custom post type postmeta by creating a custom field (my_date) on the relevant form and then using the code below but for some reason, it doesn’t seem to be picking up a value for $_POST[‘my_date’].

This doesn’t seem to be anything to do with the field type as I’ve tried changing it to a text field and that doesn’t seem to make any difference. Indeed, if I run the same code but using $_POST[‘bbl_post_title’] then everything works fine (even if it doesn’t make much sense!) so this seems to be an issue with custom fields only…

Could it be something to do with the fact taht the field name actually seems to appear as “bbl_custom_field[my_date]” (ie. including square brackets in the name itself) so possibly I need to reference it slightly differently?

Here’s the code I’ve tried so far…

` add_filter( ‘bblpro_post_submission_prepared_data’, function ( $post_data, $form_id, $post, $is_submission ) {

if ( 2487 === (int) $form_id ) {

$mydate = $_POST[‘my_date’] . ‘ 11:00:00’;
//$mydate = $_POST[‘bbl_custom_field[my_date]’] . ‘ 11:00:00’;

if ( ! empty( $post_data[‘ID’] ) ) {
update_post_meta( $post_data[‘ID’], ‘_EventStartDate’, $mydate);

}
}

return $post_data;
}, 10, 4 ); `

With many thanks in advance for any thoughts.
Nik

Hi Brajesh

Just wanted to add that having just discovered the ‘bblpro_post_submission_prepared_data’ filter, it looks as if it would be relatively easy for me to combine a time field (such as that which you suggested above) with the existing date field in order to save the postmeta in a suitable format for my events plugin.

In other words, if implementing the above time field would be a relatively “quick fix” as compared to implementing a full date/time field, that would certainly be perfectly acceptable for my purposes at this stage… and if it’s something I can implement myself (with a little guidance from you) even better…

No worries if not though… the groups functionality is far more of a priority for me at least and hope that’s all going well.

Regards
Nik

Hey Brajesh

Sorry to ask again but just wondering how things are progressing with this?

Regards
Nik

Thank you Brajesh. I’ve got it now and that all makes sense.

Thank you also for explaining re. post specific overrides as that would probably have been my next question.

Regards
Nik

Update: after further investigation, it seems that the correct template path for my theme (which isn’t any of those included with BuddyBlog Pro eg. BuddyBoss, Kleo etc) needs to be… mychildtheme/buddyblog/default/default/posts.php.

This feels a bit clunky but since it works, I’ll assume I’m on the right path unless you would advise otherwise Brajesh?

Regards
Nik