Part of content to custom field

Resolved almemedia
(@almemedia)

10 years, 2 months ago
First of – what a great plugin! But I have one question – how do I put part of the content of an email into a custom field?
Example: I want be able to send a mail like:
Prio: 1
Description: This is a description

And than let postie set the custom field prio to 1 and the content to “This is a description”. I know I should be able to do it with filterPostie.php but don’t know really how.

I have figured out a part:
```
function add_custom_field($post) {
    add_post_meta($post['ID'], 'prio', $prio);

    return $post;
}
add_filter('postie_post_before', 'add_custom_field');
```
But how do I parse the content to get out the 1 and the text after description?

Thanks!

https://wordpress.org/plugins/postie/

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Plugin Author Wayne Allen
(@wayneallen-1)

10 years, 2 months ago
Glad you like the plugin.

You need to do some PHP string manipulation on $post[‘post_content’]

This is tricky if your email is in html format. In fact Postie itself has trouble with this in some places.

You may be better off using something like:
```
{{Prio: 1}}
{{Description: This is a description}}
```
As it is much easier to find ‘{{‘ and ‘}}’ than the end of the line.

Take a look at the strpos() and substr() functions.

http://www.php.net/strpos
http://www.php.net/substr
Thread Starter almemedia
(@almemedia)

10 years, 1 month ago

Have tried this now several days, but I can’t get it to work at all. I don’t even get the content to a custom field. How do start?
Is the content of the message stored in: $post[‘post_content’] or how do I start parsing the data.

Thanks in advance!
Plugin Author Wayne Allen
(@wayneallen-1)

10 years, 1 month ago
The $post array is the same as the one described here:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_insert_post

Are you using add_post_meta()?
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_post_meta
```
add_post_meta($post['ID'], 'field1', 'custom content');
```
PinkishHue
(@pinkishhue)

9 years, 2 months ago

After much searching and trying to figure out how to code it myself (without any luck!) I found this old post which recommends using the ‘Custom Shortcodes’ plugin which automatically adds a custom field based on a custom field within the post.

It’s an old plugin but I’ve just tested it on WP 4.0 and it works! Hurray!

So now it’s a case of incorporating the shortcode in to the email that creates the postie post:

[custom name=”field-name” value=”field-value”]

Hope this helps anyone else looking for a solution to this.

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