floi13

Hi @torokzsofi

Firstly my apologies for the late reaction. Wasn’t on here for a while.
To answer your question; I first added the shortcode to the auction stuff in my template. After that I wrapped that shortcode into a div, like so…

<div class="classofdiv">[add php shortcode here]</div>

After that I edited my css for the auction like so…

.classofdiv .auctionelement { add styling here }

Like I said in a previous message, this might not be the most elegant way of doing things, but it solved my issue for the moment.

Hope this helps, good luck!

• This reply was modified 5 years ago by floi13.

I’m not completely sure to be honest… give it a try, I would say.
Worth mentioning is that in my case, it was purely based on a Contact Form 7 form, so didn’t do much if anything with database stuff.

I’ve answered the first question myself. Just wrapped the auctions shortcode in a div and edited my css accordingly. Perhaps not the most elegant solution, but it does the trick.

Question 2 however is something I can’t seem to find a fix for yet… anyone got any ideas?

It seems that after I installed and activated the WP Mail SMTP plugin, the emails are being sent.
A follow-up question that pops up in my mind is customizing the content of the email. At the moment it displays the product url, product name, bid value and product description.
I would like to change this so that it displays something like User X made a bid of .. Euro’s on product Y.

Owell, the plugins out-of-the-box functionality seems to work fine now… Would have liked a mention about a secondary email plugin though.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by floi13.

Ow, my bad. I’ve created a github where I added my template-home.php and functions.php. Would be great if you could take a peak.

The link is https://gist.github.com/floi5314/ac0f782cb86aeb934907c317d8660400

The custom post type Offers I made in functions.php with the following code:

function cptOffers() {
	$labels = array(
		'name' => _x('Offers', 'post type general name'),
		'singular_name' => _x('offer', 'post type singular name'),
		'edit_item' => __('Information about this offer'),
		'all_items' => __('All offers'),
		'view_item' => __('View offer'),
		'search_items' => __('Search offers'),
		'not_found' => __('No offers found'),
		'not_found_in_trash' => __('No offers found in trash'),
		'parent_item_colon' => '',
		'menu_name' => 'Offers',
	);
	
	$args = array(
		'labels' => $labels,
		'description' => 'All offers',
                'public' => true,
                'show_in_rest' => true,
		'menu_icon' => 'dashicons-money-alt',
		'supports' => array('title', 'thumbnail', 'custom-fields'),
		'map_meta_cap' => true,
		'capabilities' => array(
			'create_posts'	=> 'do_not_allow'
		),
	);
	
	register_post_type('offers', $args);
}
add_action('init', 'cptOffers', 0);

The ‘offer’ posts are create through form submit, with this piece of code:

add_action('wpcf7_before_send_mail', 'save_application_form');
function save_application_form($wpcf7){
	global $wpdb;
  	$submission = WPCF7_Submission::get_instance();

  	$name 			= $_POST['your-name'];
  	$email 			= $_POST['email'];
  	$productchoice 	        = $_POST['radio-products'];
  	$offer 			= $_POST['offer'];
  	$comments 		= $_POST['message'];

  	$my_post = array(
    	'post_title' => $name,
    	'post_status' => 'publish',
    	'post_type' => 'offers',
    	'post_author' => 1,
  	);
  
	$the_post_id = wp_insert_post($my_post);
  
	update_post_meta($the_post_id, 'offer_made', $_POST['offer']);
	update_post_meta($the_post_id, 'chosen_product', $_POST['products']);
	update_post_meta($the_post_id, 'user_comments', $_POST['message']);
}

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I should add a hidden field to my form that holds the product id?

So, I’ve added a new acf Relationship field to the Product(s) post type. That gives me a dropdown for every product. But the available offer-posts must be selected by hand; this is not what I want.

Question #1
Is a relationship-field the way to go?

Question #2
If the answer on question #1 is yes, how do I proceed? Perhaps populating the dropdown with corresponding offers?

I thought I had figured it out by getting the Offers cpt data via the REST api, but that didn’t work either. The url to the data I had in mind was something like //mydomain.test/wp-json/wp/v2/cpt-slug/$post->ID, but that would get the offer id; not the product id… So again two different items which should be combined.

I’m thinking more and more what I’m trying to achieve can’t be done.

Hi bcworkz,

The Offers cpt is created with the following code:

function cptOffers() {
	$labels = array(
		'name'					=> _x('Offers', 'post type general name'),
		'singular_name'			=> _x('offer', 'post type singular name'),
		//'add_new' 			=> _x('Add new', 'offer'),
		//'add_new_item' 		=> __('Add new offer'),
		'edit_item'				=> __('Information about this offer'),
		//'new_item'			=> __('New offer'),
		'all_items'				=> __('All offers'),
		'view_item'				=> __('View offer'),
		'search_items' 			=> __('Search offers'),
		'not_found'				=> __('No offers found'),
		'not_found_in_trash' 	=> __('No offers found in trash'),
		'parent_item_colon' 	=> '',
		'menu_name'				=> 'Offers'
	);
	
	$args = array(
		'labels'				=> $labels,
		'description'			=> 'All offers',
		'public'				=> true,
		'menu_icon'				=> 'dashicons-money-alt',
		'supports'				=> array('title', 'thumbnail', 'custom-fields'),
		'has_archive'			=> true,
		'map_meta_cap'			=> true,
		'capabilities'			=> array(
			'create_posts'	=> 'do_not_allow'
		)
	);
	
	register_post_type('offers', $args);
}
add_action('init', 'cptOffers', 0);

The separate ‘posts’ are created via a form submit:

add_action('wpcf7_before_send_mail', 'save_application_form');
function save_application_form($wpcf7){
	global $wpdb;
  	$submission = WPCF7_Submission::get_instance();

  	$name 			= $_POST['your-name'];
  	$email 			= $_POST['email'];
  	$productchoice 	= $_POST['radio-products'];
  	$offer 			= $_POST['offer'];
  	$comments 		= $_POST['message'];

  	$my_post = array(
    	'post_title' => $name,
    	'post_status' => 'publish',
    	'post_type' => 'offers',
    	'post_author' => 1,
  	);
  
	$the_post_id = wp_insert_post($my_post);
  
	update_post_meta($the_post_id, 'offer_made', $_POST['offer']);
	update_post_meta($the_post_id, 'chosen_product', $_POST['products']);
	update_post_meta($the_post_id, 'user_comments', $_POST['message']);
}

Every Offer post has 3 advanced custom fields, where ‘offer_made’ is the amount the user entered in the form.