publish_post not working

Ya, I have no idea why when I issue the die() it saves it, but if I don’t and just let it finish there is nothing. Frustrating, It is like it’s flushing something that needs to be flushed. Thanks for the help and guidance Craig!

Hi Dave, here is the code, it starts with the transition_post_status. Build an address string, geoencodes it and (attempts) to save the lat and long back to the post. If I have the die() it does save it, if I don’t have the die() it does a screen refresh, but nothing is in the lat and long fields.

add_action('transition_post_status','nbpe_publish_project',10,3);

function nbpe_publish_project($new_status,$old_status,$post){
	if ($post->post_type == 'project' && $new_status != 'trash' && $old_status !='new'){
		do_action( 'save_post', $post->ID, $post, true );
		if (get_field('latitude') =='' || get_field('longitude') == ''){
			nbpe_geoencode($post,$post->ID);
		}
	}
 }

// Geoencoding
function nbpe_geoencode($post,$postID){
	$street_number = get_field('street_number');
	$street_direction = get_field('street_direction');
	if ($street_direction == 'NONE'){
		$street_direction = '';
	}
	else{
		$street_direction = $street_direction.'+';
	}
	$street_name = str_replace(' ', '+',get_field('street_name'));
	$street_suffix = get_field('street_suffix');
	if ($street_suffix == 'NONE'){
		$street_suffix ='';
	}
	else{
		$street_suffix = $street_suffix.'+';
	}
	$city = get_field('city');
	$state = get_field('state');
	$zip_code = get_field('zip_code');
	$address_space = '+';
	$address_string = $street_number.$address_space.$street_direction.$street_name.$address_space.$street_suffix.$zip_code;
	$url_string = 'https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/xml?address='.$address_string;

	$xmlStr = file_get_contents($url_string); //Read the XML returned by Google maps API into a string.
	$xmlObj = simplexml_load_string($xmlStr); //Interprets a string of XML into an object.
	$arrXml = objectsIntoArray($xmlObj); // Converts to an array.

	$status = $arrXml['status'];

	if ($status == 'OK'){ //Geoencode was successful, process and add to post.

		$latitude = $arrXml["result"]["geometry"]["location"]["lat"];
		$longitude = $arrXml["result"]["geometry"]["location"]["lng"];

		//echo 'Post ID: '.$postID.'<br />';
		//echo 'Status: '.$status.'<br />';
		//echo 'Lat: '.$latitude.'<br />';
		//echo 'Lng: '.$longitude.'<br />';

		update_post_meta($postID, 'latitude' , $latitude);
		update_post_meta($postID, 'longitude', $longitude);
		die('Why do you save with die???');
	}
}
 function objectsIntoArray($arrObjData, $arrSkipIndices = array())
{
    $arrData = array();

    // if input is object, convert into array
    if (is_object($arrObjData)) {
        $arrObjData = get_object_vars($arrObjData);
    }

    if (is_array($arrObjData)) {
        foreach ($arrObjData as $index => $value) {
            if (is_object($value) || is_array($value)) {
                $value = objectsIntoArray($value, $arrSkipIndices); // recursive call
            }
            if (in_array($index, $arrSkipIndices)) {
                continue;
            }
            $arrData[$index] = $value;
        }
    }
    return $arrData;
}