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1. gypmaster
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Hi,

   running the following code:

   <?php
   require('wp-blog-header.php');
   
   // Create post object
     $my_post = array();
     $my_post['post_title'] = 'My post';
     $my_post['post_content'] = 'This is my next post.';
     $my_post['post_status'] = 'publish';
     $my_post['post_author'] = 1;
     $my_post['post_category'] = array('4');
   
   // Insert the post into the database
     wp_insert_post( $my_post );
   ?>

   which inserts the post into the database ... only problem is that the category field in the db is set to 0 and I set it to 4 in the array above.

   anytone know why it's appearing as 0 and not 4?

2. gypmaster
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   anyone?

3. Michael Fields
   Theme Wrangler
   Posted 3 years ago #

   As far as I know the post_category database column is no longer in use. WordPress now uses 3 tables to deal with categories:

   wp_terms
   wp_term_relationships
   wp_term_taxonomy

   I used your code exactly as you wrote it and it inserted a new post and (due to the fact that I do not have a category with an ID of 4) it created a new category named 4 with an ID of 68.

   Everything looks good to me with the code in 2.7

4. gypmaster
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   yeah, thanks for that ... I cans ee it now, and it works fine.

   checking the wp_term_relationships table I can see the post id and the term_taxonomy_id match up the the 'category'.

   cheers.

5. tommix
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   i think it not should be like your: array('4');
   it's not string so need to be array(4);

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