Need help to use action hook

[smithandjones]

I have recently purchased User Meta Pro. It has been a pleasure to use.

I am using a currency translation plugin which only accepts shortcodes from certain sources. In order to get my desired function to operate, I need to convert one User Meta Pro custom user field (inputed via a User Meta Pro Profile form) into another field format.

I think it should be possible to do this using the ‘user_meta_after_user_update’ action hook. Can I ask for your help to put the action hook code together please. My need is quite simple.

My form collects a number of profile fields. One of these is named ‘buyer_default_currency_code’

I need the action hook to take the value of this field and save it as a Toolset Types field which has the field name ‘wpcf-buyer-default-currency-code’

Your help would be appreciated

Regards

Robert

[smithandjones]

I haven’t had any reply so yesterday I spent a couple of hours experimenting which I guess is a good way to learn!

I got the following code to work, but with a couple of issues;

add_action( 'user_meta_after_user_update', 'user_meta_after_user_update_function' );
function user_meta_after_user_update_function( $response ){
extract( shortcode_atts( array(
          'info' => 'buyer_default_currency_symbol',
     ), $atts ) );
    $user_id = get_current_user_id();
    $res = get_user_meta($user_id, $info, true); 
    update_user_meta($user_id, 'wpcf-buyer-default-currency-symbol', $res);
}

Here are the issues I need help with;

1. I don’t know how to extract checkbox type variables where you can have more than one value?

2. I have a problem with the ‘Country’ field. Although it displays the full country name in the drop down, e.g. ‘United Kingdom’, it actually returns the abbreviation,e.g. ‘UK’. I need to derive and display the full country name. How is this possible please?

Regards

Robert

[Khaled]

Hello Robert, Your post may be overlooked, sorry for that.

1. If you use get_user_meta to retrieve checkbox value, it will return an array with the corresponding value.

2. Go to User Meta >> Fields editor, expand your country field. There is a dropdown named “Save meta value by”,select country name and hit save.

Thanks.

[smithandjones]

Hi Khaled

Re point 2. Thank you, works fine.

Re point 1. I tried making a shortcode to allow the array to be displayed.

function payment_methods_func()
{
    extract( shortcode_atts( array(
          'info' => 'seller_payment_methods',
     ), $atts ) );
    $user_id = get_current_user_id();
    return $res = get_user_meta($user_id, $info, false);
}
add_shortcode( 'payment_methods', 'payment_methods_func' );

But when I use the shortcode, I get the word ‘Array’ displayed instead of the required values from the array.

I have tried the shortcode with a single string variable and it works fine.

Can you help please.

Regards

Robert

[Khaled]

Hello Robert,

You could use something like that:

function payment_methods_func() {
    extract( shortcode_atts( array(
          'info' => 'seller_payment_methods',
     ), $atts ) );
    
    $user_id = get_current_user_id();
    $res = get_user_meta($user_id, $info, false);
    
    if ( is_array( $res ) )
        return implode( ', ', $res );
    
    return $res;
}
add_shortcode( 'payment_methods', 'payment_methods_func' );

implode( ‘, ‘, $res ) will separate array value by comma.

Thanks.

[smithandjones]

Hello Khaled

I tried the code you suggested but it is still returning ‘ARRAY’. Could you look at the code again please.

Regards

Robert

[Khaled]

Oh, sorry!

Please replace

$res = get_user_meta($user_id, $info, false);

with

$res = get_user_meta($user_id, $info, true);

Thanks.

[smithandjones]

Hi Khaled. The latest code works perfectly.

Many thanks

Robert

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