Modifying meta keys using user_meta_pre_user_register not working

[Magpie Communications]

When a user registers I need to modify the information before it is written to the database.

I’m using the user_meta_pre_user_register function to do some maths to change a value from stone and pounds to kg. In my app I’m always storing weight in kg and converting it to and from stone if required.

If I print the $userData array when the user registers it is displaying what I expect, a number converted from stone to kg (e.g. [weight] => 65.77086) but it’s not writing this value to the database. All the unmodified values are being written correctly.

Am I using the correct function and is there anything I’m missing?

Thanks

add_filter( 'user_meta_pre_user_register', 'user_meta_pre_user_register_function' );
function user_meta_pre_user_register_function( $userData ){
    
    //If the weights units conditional is set kg save the value to 'weight'
    //If the weights units conditional is set stone, convert value to kg then save to 'weight'
    
    if($userData['weight_units'] == 'kg'){
    $userData['weight'] = $userData['weight_kg'];
    }else{
    $userData['weight'] = stone_to_kg($userData['weight_st'], $userData['weight_lbs']);
    }

    print_r($userData); //This is showing what I expect

    return $userData;
}

[webfocusdesign]

Sorry to revive this but I’m betting the same issue.

What I can see on my end is that data modifications affecting columns in the main wp_users table do work (user_url for exemple) as do standard meta fields like ‘role’ that is saved to the (prefix)_capabilites meta key.

But modifying or saving custom new meta fields that should get saved to wp_usermeta does not work. The user meta field values are not getting saved to the database at all. THis is really killing me on a complex project right now…

I’d really appreciate it if you could look into it.

Thanks!

[webfocusdesign]

Hi,

Don’t want to be a pain but I would really need some help here.

Thanks!

[Khaled]

Hello,

We have applied a quick fix to our dev version. Please consider the dev version until next release.

Thanks.

[webfocusdesign]

Hello Khaled,

The new 1.5 ddev version seems to have fixed the issue and this filter working fine now.

Thank you VERY much!!

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