post for each phone number

Hi @shaar7,

Thank you for reaching out to us with your query about restricting users to posting only one post per phone number using the WP User Frontend plugin.

To achieve this functionality, you will need to implement a custom validation process that checks if the phone number entered by the user has already been used in a previous post.

Hope this information will help.

Regards!

thanks for fast reply.
can you assist me to achieve it.

i tried the below code:

function restrict_one_post_per_phone_number($post_id, $form_id, $form_settings, $form_vars) {

$phone_number = isset($_POST['meta key']) ? sanitize_text_field($_POST['meta key']) : '';


if (empty($phone_number)) {
    return;
}


$existing_posts = new WP_Query(array(
    'post_type' => 'post', 
    'meta_query' => array(
        array(
            'key' => '__________',
            'value' => $phone_number,
            'compare' => '='
        )
    )
));

/
if ($existing_posts->have_posts()) {

    wp_delete_post($post_id, true);


    wp_die('A post with this phone number already exists. You cannot submit more than one post with the same phone number.', 'Error', array('back_link' => true));
}

}
add_action(‘wpuf_form_post_submitted’, ‘restrict_one_post_per_phone_number’, 10, 4);

Hi @shaar7,

Based on your request, to achieve this, you may check the following code:

function check_duplicate_phone_number($postdata) {
    // Extract phone number from the submitted data
    $phone_number = isset($postdata['your_phone_number_field']) ? $postdata['your_phone_number_field'] : '';

    if (empty($phone_number)) {
        return $postdata;
    }
    $args = array(
        'post_type' => 'your_post_type',
        'meta_query' => array(
            array(
                'key' => 'your_phone_number_field',
                'value' => $phone_number,
                'compare' => '='
            )
        )
    );

    $query = new WP_Query($args);

    if ($query->have_posts()) {
        // If a post with the same phone number exists, add an error
        wp_die(__('A post with this phone number already exists. Please use a different phone number.', 'your-textdomain'));
    }

    return $postdata;
}
add_filter('wpuf_add_post_args', 'check_duplicate_phone_number', 10, 1);

I hope this helps. If it still doesn’t work, you may need to consider hiring a developer. I hope you understand.

Best regards,