CODEWITHSUNDEEP
wordpressfunctionif-statement
User_FTW
User_FTW

Reputation: 524

If post exists and post_meta exists

In my plugin I have a form with a couple of input fields (customer_name and customer_email) which creates a post when submitted.

When submitted, I'm also checking to see if a post with the same post_title already exists in the database:

// posts
$customer_name = sanitize_text_field($_POST['customer_name']);
// post_meta
$customer_email = sanitize_text_field($_POST['customer_email']);

if( post_exists($customer_name) ) {
    // the post exists, update the post
} else {
    // the post does not exist, add new post
}

..which works fine.

But what I need to do is not only check if the customer_name already exists, but also check if that customer_name already has a customer_email (in post_meta) the same as the one that was submitted.

By doing this I will know if I need to update an existing post or create a new post.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 330

Answers (1)

mujuonly
mujuonly

Reputation: 11861

 $post_id = post_exists($customer_name)  

if($post_id){

 if ( metadata_exists( 'post', $post_id, 'customer_email' ) ) {
        // Customer email exist

            $post_customer_email = get_post_meta( $post_id, 'customer_email', true );
            if($post_customer_email == $customer_email){
                echo "already exist"; // do your stuff here
            }

    }
}

Upvotes: 1

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