Get user meta data from woocommerce_created_customer hook in Woocommerce

Question

I am using woocommerce API to create a customer API is working fine and the new customer is creating fine into WP. But the issue is when I am using a hook "woocommerce_created_customer" I am not able to get user meta data like "first name", "last name" etc

Here is a part of my code:

```
$this->loader->add_action( 'woocommerce_created_customer', $plugin_admin, 'add_user_to_zendesk', 50 );
public function add_user_to_zendesk( $user_id ) {
        if ( isset( $user_id ) && ! empty( $user_id ) ) {
            $user = get_user_by( 'id', $user_id )->data;
            error_log('USER DATA'. print_r( $user, true ) );
            error_log('USER METADATA'. print_r( get_user_meta($user_id), true ) );
         }
}
```

Here is a response in log file

```

[01-Sep-2018 08:30:50 UTC] USER DATAstdClass Object
(
    [ID] => 99
    [user_login] => geek2
    [user_pass] => XXXXXXXXX.
    [user_nicename] => geek2
    [user_email] => geek2@gmail.com
    [user_url] => 
    [user_registered] => 2018-09-01 08:30:49
    [user_activation_key] => 
    [user_status] => 0
    [display_name] => geek2
)

[01-Sep-2018 08:30:50 UTC] USER METADATAArray
(
    [nickname] => Array
        (
            [0] => geek2
        )

    [first_name] => Array
        (
            [0] => 
        )

    [last_name] => Array
        (
            [0] => 
        )

    [description] => Array
        (
            [0] => 
        )

    [rich_editing] => Array
        (
            [0] => true
        )

    [syntax_highlighting] => Array
        (
            [0] => true
        )

    [comment_shortcuts] => Array
        (
            [0] => false
        )

    [admin_color] => Array
        (
            [0] => fresh
        )

    [use_ssl] => Array
        (
            [0] => 0
        )

    [show_admin_bar_front] => Array
        (
            [0] => true
        )

    [locale] => Array
        (
            [0] => 
        )

    [wp_capabilities] => Array
        (
            [0] => a:1:{s:8:"customer";b:1;}
        )

    [wp_user_level] => Array
        (
            [0] => 0
        )

    [_yoast_wpseo_profile_updated] => Array
        (
            [0] => 1535790649
        )

)
```

Can someone please help to figure out the issue...

Answer 1

Update

First you could try one of this 2 alternatives (to add in your code):

1) The Wordpress way using WP_User Class:

// Get an instance of the WP_User Object
$user = new WP_User( $user_id );

// Get the first name and the last name from WP_User Object 
$first_name = $user->first_name;
$last_name  = $user->last_name;

2) The Woocommerce way using WC_Customer Class and methods:

// Get an instance of the WC_Customer Object
$customer = new WC_Customer( $customer_id );

// Get the first name and the last name from WC_Customer Object 
$first_name = $customer->get_first_name();
$last_name  = $customer->get_last_name();

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Then looking at the WC_Customer_Data_Store source code there is an interesting action hook that could be used: woocommerce_new_customer that has a unique argument, the $customer_id.

In the source code $customer->get_first_name() and $customer->get_last_name() appear in the code, so they exist and you can get them from the WC_Customer instance Object using the $customer_id, as described here below…

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Last possibility

As the user meta data seems to be delayed and Woocommerce seems to be using WordPress functions, you could try to use the WordPress hook add_user_meta which has 3 arguments:

• $user_id
• $meta_key
• $meta_value

But I don't know how to include it in your code, hoping that you could get the data from WP_User Object or WC_Customer Object.