I’m using this command to add them to an existing post
wp post term add post_id post_tag $var1
Try adding quotes around the $var1 variable.
wp post term add 123 post_tag "$var1"
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This reply was modified 7 years, 2 months ago by
keesiemeijer.
Ah, I see. It automatically replaces the spaces with dashes.
I was hoping for to keep the spaces in the tag but i’ll work with it.
thank you.
Also, is there a limit to the amount of tags in a string i can use? I’ve accidentally loaded a tag with lots of words and it didn’t automatically add dashes, it kept the spaces and made 1 long tag. Could that mean there is a way to stop the auto dash behavior?
Ah, I see. It automatically replaces the spaces with dashes.
It doesn’t for me. But It does for the slugs of the terms.
+---------+---------------+--------------+----------+
| term_id | name | slug | taxonomy |
+---------+---------------+--------------+----------+
| 191 | x and y | x-and-y | post_tag |
| 192 | x and y,z | x-and-yz | post_tag |
| 193 | x,y | xy | post_tag |
+---------+---------------+--------------+----------+
Try the list command to see what terms belong to a post (with id 123)
wp post term list 123 post_tag
Without looking at the rest of the code it’s difficult to say what’s going wrong.
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This reply was modified 7 years, 2 months ago by keesiemeijer.
I use the following to read a list of terms
for($i=0; $i<=20; $i++){
$tags[$i] = $xpath->evaluate("string(//div[contains(@class, 'main_genre')]/a[$x])");
if(empty($tags[$i])){
array_pop($tags);
break;
}
echo $tags[$i] . "\n";
$x++;
}
Then i add them as tags into a wordpress post.
$length = sizeof($tags);
for ($i=0; $i<$length; $i++)
{
shell_exec("wp post term --allow-root add $int post_tag '$tags[$i]'");
}
Not sure why it would automatically replace spaces with dashes since you said it shouldn’t have that behavior.
Check if it works by replacing the dashes before adding the term.
$tag = str_replace( '-', ' ', $tags[ $i ] );
shell_exec("wp post term --allow-root add 1 post_tag '$tag'");
If it does you know wp-cli does insert them correctly and the $tags variable contains tag names with dashes.
Why not use wp_insert_term() or wp_set_object_terms() to add the terms?
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This reply was modified 7 years, 2 months ago by keesiemeijer.
Unfortunately i still get the dashes.
I’m a novice so i just went with the easiest option i found. Emphasis on “found” 😛
I just happen to run acrross this command which seems to be exactly what i need:
wp_set_post_terms( $post_id, $terms, $taxonomy, $append )
But i can’t get it to work properly. I tried:
shell_exec("wp_set_post_terms( '$int', '$tags', 'post_tag', 'true' )");
to dump the entire array and got:
PHP Notice: Array to string conversion in *directory*/test.php on line 60
sh: 1: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")")
then tried:
$length = sizeof($tags);
for ($i=0; $i<$length; $i++)
{
shell_exec("wp_set_post_terms( '$int', '$tags[$i]', 'post_tag', 'true' )");
}
and got the following for each element in the array:
sh: 1: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")")
but then i though, “it’s not command line code im calling” so i tried the to use the function by itself without the shell_exec and got:
PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function wp_set_post_terms()
Can you point out what i’m doing wrong?
If you want to use wp_set_post_terms() WordPress needs to be loaded. If you’re using it in a plugin or theme that would work.
Where are you running this script? And what is it you want it to do?
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This reply was modified 7 years, 2 months ago by keesiemeijer.
It’s a php file i run from command line.
It gets some info from a website, creates a post using wp-cli, puts the info on it.
It works. I just didn’t want dashes in my post tags.
I can’t replicate this issue locally when adding tags with spaces using the wp post term command.
It could be shell_exec adds these dashes. Try escaping the variable.
$tag = escapeshellarg( $tags[$i] );
shell_exec("wp post term --allow-root add 1 post_tag $tag");
Unfortunately that didn’t work.
if it makes a difference, the tags are coming from a UTF-8 encoded webpage.
I put an echo command right before the shell_exec command so it is being fed a tag with a space like ‘this tag’ and when it’s posted its still ‘this-tag’
tried this:
$tag = escapeshellarg( $tags[$i] );
shell_exec("wp post term --allow-root add 1 post_tag $tag");
and
$tag = escapeshellarg( $tags[$i] );
shell_exec("wp post term --allow-root add 1 post_tag '$tag'");
I think you are right about shell_exec. I ran in command line just this line
wp post term --allow-root add 1 post_tag 'this tag'
and it adds it to the post without the dash.
what do you recommend to do? Should I have created a Bash file instead to do this task? Should I load enough wordpress to be able to run stuff like what i tried above with “wp_set_post_terms()”?
Take a look at extending WP-CLI with your own command.
http://wp-cli.org/#extending
https://make.wordpress.org/cli/handbook/commands-cookbook/
With that you can make use of the native WP functions.
Thanks!
I greatly appreciated your time!
