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1. mrpritchett
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   I am working on a ticket submission system for my organization (and possibly a WP-theme) and would like to use the POST ID as the POST TITLE. Posts are posted from the front end based on a similar coding to http://voodoopress.com/2011/03/review-of-posting-from-front-end-form/ . I tried to set it using a variable, but I gets set to no title. See below:
   

   $new_post = array(
   	'ticket_number' => $ticket_number,
       $post->ID  =>   $title,
       'post_content'  =>   $description,
   	'post_category' => array($_POST['cat']),
   	'location' => array($_POST['location']),
   	'emergency' => array($_POST['emergency']),
   	'problem_type' => array($_POST['problem_type']),
       'tags_input'    =>   array($tags),
       'post_status'   =>   'publish',           // Choose: publish, preview, future, draft, etc.
       'post_type' =>   'post',  //'post',page' or use a custom post type if you want to
       $emergency = $_POST['emergency'],
   	$location = $_POST['location'],
   	$problem_type = $_POST['problem_type'],
       );

2. stvwlf
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   Not sure exactly what you are doing but this seems incorrect:
   $post->ID => $title,

   you want to assign the post ID as the title. that would be more like
   

   'ticket_number' => $ticket_number,
   'post_title' => $post->ID,

3. mrpritchett
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   Thank you for the reply stvwlf! The problem with this is that it returns the current page ID. I am posting from the front end through a page template. I want to make the post ID the title of the post. The problem that I am having is that the post ID is not created until the post is published, which means the title is set (I believe this is how it works). Is there a way to set the title after the post ID and then set the ID as the post title?

4. stvwlf
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   You will have to update the title after the post is inserted, because the ID is not known until after the post is inserted.

   According to the Codex wp_insert_post() returns the id of the new post.

   Here is info about updating an existing post:
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_update_post

   You need to create an array with the fields you want to update and then call wp_update_post using the array as parameter

   start with this line from Rev Voodoo's code (its in a part of your code you didn't post):
   $pid = wp_insert_post($new_post);

   add these lines after that line
   

   $update_post = array();   // create empty array
   $update_post['ID'] = $pid;   // set post ID to be updated
   $update_post['post_title'] = $pid;  // set new value for title in that post
   wp_update_post( $update_post );  // update the post

   See if that works - code is not tested.

5. mrpritchett
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   stvwlf: This worked! Thanks for the help!

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