Issue with inserting questions programmatically
Hi,
I tried to insert question programmatically, like you mentioned in your FAQ. In fact, I used almost the same sample code you provided (except that I changed Tag Id and names).
Unfortunately it threw me an error.
Link to my sample gist –
https://gist.github.com/atultiwari/2f0a877e9e63c0c4ed334ecf50189308
I have already downloaded the latest one from master branch (and confirmed that manual mode etc are there).
Similarly I tried to post answer, it threw me error – “the server responded with a status of 500 (Internal Server Error)”‘
Link to Gist file –
https://gist.github.com/atultiwari/a7c5cfb43324b08125a2cbec6bd15a02
Answer is getting posted with –
$post_id = wp_insert_post($values);
but not with Hook.
I tried to look for where am I making mistake for hours now, but I am unable to figure it out.
Edit 1 –
After the fixed pushed by @Rahul, questions are getting inserted programmatically, as described. However still there are some issues, such as –
- Tags are not getting inserted (I tried to find out if it’s with me only or it’s an issue with the script, but I couldn’t), while question and category is inserted correctly
- Question metas and activity didn’t get inserted when using sample code provided in FAQ –>I think it’s because of
$qameta
was never used. I found these working if I use the functions “ap_insert_qameta
” and “ap_update_post_activity_meta
” on$qameta
, however I am not sure if I am using the correct method. - When trying similar method to insert Answer, it didn’t insert
post_parent
and answer got orphan. While reading the source code for Answer form and related submit function, I observed that herepost_parent
is passed under the variable named$question_id
, so I tried to pass it like this, but still it failed.var_dump
revealed that while passing the value for$question_id
it’s storing them in array, first is boolean and in 2nd one it’s strong theparent_post
id, which is never used. While if we use the same function on default answer form (when answering the question from GUI),$question_id
stores the parent post id. How? I couldn’t understand it. - Even if submitting answer programmatically started working, it will also need some metas and activity update for answer as well to complete the all steps.
- I think in complete source section of the FAQ line 15 you forgot to put
;
therefore it’s not working at all (out of the box)
Regards,
Atul
I noticed a similar issue with 4.1.5 yesterday. Upgraded to it (as you do..), and found I couldn’t post anything anymore, so had to roll back.
Its fixed. I am adding a unit test case so that this should not happen anymore.