"Last edited by" capability

This is not too hard to do on the frontend, a little more difficult in the backend. Both will require some knowledge of PHP. What I’m going to explain won’t make much sense unless you’re a bit of a WordPress coder. There’s is really no other way to do it, and if it’s not something you know how to do, you may want to contact a developer to get his done for you.

You’d need to create a custom template for your record shortcode, and have a field set up that grabs the user name or id of the currently logged in user. (details on that here) The way this works is it only records the value if it’s empty (i.e. for the first time) if you want it to record this value every time, you need to clear it’s value in the record object before the form head is printed in the template.

If you need to do this on the backend you’ll need to attach a handler to the ‘pdb-before_submit_update’ filter to update the value before it’s saved. You can do this in your functions.php file or in an auxiliary plugin.

Your last request will need something again attached to the ‘pdb-before_submit_update’ filter. I don’t know what you want to do when someone edits a record while not logged in. but you’ll be able to tell when that filter is executed so you can do whatever you want done if that happens. Put your record shortcode on a protected page (logged-in users only) and you won’t have to worry about it, if that’s the issue.

That should be enough of a hint to get started; Thanks!

First of all, I only need to do this in the front end, so hopefully that makes it easier.

If I insert the code to update the ‘edited_by’ field as you suggest in the while $this->have_fields() loop, it will update the field anytime someone displays the pdb_record form; what I would like to do is do the update only when a change is made to the form.

Thanks!

The ‘pdb-before_submit_update’ filter is only used when someone updates the record, not just when it’s displayed, so it will work like you want.

Hi,
I am trying to use the pdb-before_submit_update filter but I could not get the result as expected.
In my funtions.php I got: add_filter(‘pdb-before_submit_update’,’format_my_fields’), and I create the function format_my_fields to change entered fields as would like to get it in different format. After submitting the form it show the change made from the function, but when leave the form, data still as entered not as formatted.
What is the best way to get it work? I am using $_POST[]; inside the function.
Thanks!!

You are supposed to return the modified array, not directly manipulate the $_POST array.

Thanks for your answer,

I had a look to understand what is going out then I notice that, when
the pdb-before_submit_update is added and submit alteration, the record is not updated, whatever $_POST[] is there or not. I commented the $_POST[] and still the same. Wher in Case-2, record is updated.

CASE-1:
Record is not updated. But, no action is taken inside of the function.

function format_my_fields(){
// exemple
//$_POST[‘city’] = $city. “my change etc…”;
//return $_POST[‘city’];
}
add_filter(‘pdb-before_submit_update’,’format_my_fields’);
?>

CASE-2:
Record updated. (No presence of the filter)

function format_my_fields(){
// exemple
//$_POST[‘city’] = $city. “my change etc…”;
//return $_POST[‘city’];
}
//add_filter(‘pdb-before_submit_update’,’format_my_fields’);
?>

I’m sorry, I don’t provide support for the use of the API. I’m willing to answer simple questions, but you’re going to have to figure this out yourself. These features are for experienced programmers, and if it’s beyond your ability, you can consider it an opportunity to learn more.

If you look carefully at the answer I gave before, you’ll see your problem.

I understand that, I was figuring out if is a bag or not. The fact is reading your description, just adding the The ‘pdb-before_submit_update’ filter in the function.php, the plugin will not update any field, not only the changed field but all of them, I think is a simple fact. But, fine… Will find other way!
Thanks!

It works, you’re not doing it right. The filter callback gets an array, you modify that array then return the modified array. Don’t do anything to the $_POST array.

Can I suggest that you provide the basics for what what sort of call back function needs to be provided to the add_filter(), and what parameters will be passed to it at callback? I suspect a very simple example could be easily constructed with this, and if that example showed the appropriate return(), it might make this interface more obvious to someone who isn’t a WordPress hacker.

It’s not unlike most WordPress filter callbacks, the function is given an array of values, and you are expected to return that array of values. You can alter it or not.

For a trivial example, let’s say you want to make sure the name is capitalized…

<?php
add_action('pdb-before_submit_update', 'capitalize_name');
function capitalize_name($post) {
   if (isset($post['first_name']) {
      $post['first_name'] = ucwords($post['first_name']);
   }
   return $post;
}
?>

That’s really helpful, at least for me.

FYI: I think you meant to write “if (isset($post[‘first_name’])) {”

yeah, good catch!

Thanks, helpful for any one looking to use the plugin more deeper.