Adding multiple roles

Resolved khav
(@khav)

10 years, 7 months ago

I want to add multiple roles for a user with a snippet.I already have user role editor activate

$user = GFUserData::get_user_by_entry_id( $entry[‘id’] );
$user->remove_role(‘sks_member’);

remove_roles will remove all other roles for that user

$user->add_role(‘sks_member’) will remove any other roles and assign him sks_member

What function do i need to use to add multiple roles ?

https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/

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Plugin Author Vladimir Garagulya
(@shinephp)

10 years, 7 months ago
WordPress built-in WP_USER::add_role() method (wp-includes/capabilities.php) does not remove itself any other role. It just adds new role to the user:
```
public function add_role( $role ) {
	$this->caps[$role] = true;
	update_user_meta( $this->ID, $this->cap_key, $this->caps );
	$this->get_role_caps();
	$this->update_user_level_from_caps();

	/**
	 * Fires immediately after the user has been given a new role.
	 *
	 * @since 4.3.0
	 *
	 * @param int    $user_id The user ID.
	 * @param string $role    The new role.
	 */
	do_action( 'add_user_role', $this->ID, $role );
}
```
Thread Starter khav
(@khav)

10 years, 7 months ago

Hi Vladimir

Thanks for replying…

What do you think could be causing the issue i am having.Any user can have only 1 role at any time

Plugin Author Vladimir Garagulya
(@shinephp)

10 years, 7 months ago

Some other code could overwrite user’s roles.
For example if you update user profile user will lose all roles except a primary one. I should add workaround for this in User Role Editor.

Thread Starter khav
(@khav)

10 years, 7 months ago

Vladimir could you guide me on how to do that

I am using the following hooks to add or remove a role(hopefully it will help you)

add_action( ‘gform_subscription_canceled’, ‘canceled_remove_user_role’, 10, 1 );

add_action( ‘gform_post_payment_completed’, ‘process_order_roles’, 10, 2 );

Kind Regards

Thread Starter khav
(@khav)

10 years, 7 months ago

Seems like i wrongly read your post

When can i expect a fix ?

Thanks a lot for the great work

Kind Regards

Plugin Author Vladimir Garagulya
(@shinephp)

10 years, 7 months ago

No, you understood right. I meant that I added such workaround to the User Role Editor already. May be you need something similar.
Try to trace your code step by step, check that 2nd role is really added and then find where it is removed.

Hooks you showed does not belong to WordPress. I can tell you nothing about them, except that they may be added by some Gravity Forms add-on.

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