Use php script to automate file creation

The plugin offers functions to easily create private files posts from php. See the plugin source code in the src/php/functions folder.

Cool thank you, I figured it out.

For anyone else who might stumble upon this post in the future:

You can create a private file programmatically using a php script and the function cuar_create_private_file();

To call the function without error, you’ll need to pass in 3 arrays and include wp-load.php as well as functions-private-files.php.

Here’s an example that passes in 3 arguments for title, user and filename:

<?php
require_once('/path/to/wp-load.php');
require_once('/path/to/functions-private-files.php');

$title = $argv[1];
$usr = $argv[2];
$filename = $argv[3];

$post_data = array(
'post_title' => $title,
'post_content' => 'Post Content',
'post_status' => 'publish'
);
$owner = array(
'type' => 'usr',
'ids' => array($usr)
);
$files = array(
array(
'name' => $filename,
'path' => '/path/to/file/',
'method' => 'copy' )
);

cuar_create_private_file( $post_data, $owner, $files );
?>

2 things to note: Make sure that your ‘path’ is the same path defined for all your files in the dashboard and the usr in ‘ids’ is the user ID number, not the username.

Thanks for the input. It’s been really helpful. I’m wondering if either of you have had an issues assigning an owner to the file? I am using the user ID number and it is generating the link but the owner is left as Unknown. I am testing if the user exists and am getting an ID returned.

if(username_exists($ownerd)){
$user = get_user_by('login',$ownerd);
$userid = $user -> ID;
echo("User Exists and had ID ".$userid."\r\n");
$postdata = array(
'post_title' => $t,
'post_content' => $content,
'post_status' => 'publish',
'post_author' => $author->ID
);
$owner = array(
'type' => 'usr',
'ids' => array($userid)
);
$files = array(array(

'name' => $filen,
'path' => $path,
'method' => 'move'
));


Any help is greatly appreciated. I’ve been fighting with this for awhile.