Custom meta saving not working!

  • Steekvlam

    (@steekvlam)


    12 years, 11 months ago

    Hi all,

    Im stuck with the saving of custom meta for my custom post type.
    When the meta is filled with content it will save just fine but if I deleted the content of the meta it wont delete in the database/meta, so it can not be empty.

    Here is the code.

    add_action('save_post', 'save_details');
function save_details($post_id){
global $post;

if ( defined('DOING_AUTOSAVE') && DOING_AUTOSAVE )
return $post_id;

if (isset($_POST["subtitle"]) && $_POST["subtitle"] <> '') update_post_meta($post->ID, "subtitle", $_POST["subtitle"]);
if (isset($_POST["youtube"]) && $_POST["youtube"] <> '') update_post_meta($post->ID, "youtube", $_POST["youtube"]);
if (isset($_POST["call_in"]) && $_POST["call_in"] <> '') update_post_meta($post->ID, "call_in", $_POST["call_in"]);
}

    Can does some one know how to fix this?

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  • ianhaycox

    (@ianhaycox)

    12 years, 11 months ago

    update_post_meta never gets called if the content is empty due to your <> ” test.

    If you want to delete the meta data when there’s no content you’ll have to do something like,

    if (isset($_POST["subtitle"]) {
    if (empty($_POST["subtitle"])) {
        delete_post_data(...);
    } else {
        update_post_meta(...);
    }
}

    Ian.

    Thread Starter Steekvlam

    (@steekvlam)

    12 years, 11 months ago

    Currently im using it like this

    if (isset($_POST["subtitle"]) {
    if (empty($_POST["subtitle"])) {
        delete_post_data($post->ID, "subtitle", $_POST["subtitle"]);
    } else {
        update_post_meta($post->ID, "subtitle", $_POST["subtitle"]);
    }
}

    But it gives me an error : Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘{‘ on the line.

    How can I fix this?

    Ravinder Kumar

    (@ravinderk)

    12 years, 11 months ago

    if (isset($_POST["subtitle"]) {
    replace it by ( because ‘if’ not closed properly )
    if (isset($_POST["subtitle"])) {

    Moderator Pippin Williamson

    (@mordauk)

    12 years, 10 months ago

    Instead of using isset(), use just empty().

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