Post Title from value of PODS field

Hi @mallorcagirl76

Can you elaborate?
Why not just use the post title field?

Cheers, Jory

If you mean the original post title field built in in wordpress because of the reason that I wanna generate the post title from the value of 3 fields in my pod.

Like example:

First Pod field: value= Girl
Second Pod field: value= Boy
Third Pod field: value = Big Love

Reslut ind post_title should be: Girl + Boy = Big Love

Hi @mallorcagirl76

Ah check, we have an example in our docs:
https://docs.pods.io/code-snippets/update-post-title-with-values-from-other-fields-and-make-post-title-uneditable/

Cheers, Jory

If I post this code into the functions.php of my theme I get an critical error !
Solved my fault…sorry

• This reply was modified 2 years, 9 months ago by mallorcagirl76.

I did yll like in the description. Now I have an only redable field but how I can get now this what I wrote above ? Dont check it

Ok its function now. Post Type was to edit for my post type.
BUT…Now its dowing the authors name and the date as title.
How can I get the title from three of my fields ?

Hi @mallorcagirl76

You’ll have to modify the example code to use your custom fields.
The link simply provides an example use-case. You can fetch the field data yourself and create the title string you want.

Another example can be found here:
https://docs.pods.io/code-snippets/create-post-title-from-fields-in-the-post-using-pods_api_pre_save/

Cheers, Jory

I did it like this but I get an critical WP error:

add_filter( 'pods_api_pre_save_pod_item_release', 'slug_set_title', 10, 2);
function slug_set_title($pieces, $is_new_item) {
    //check if is new item, if not return $pieces without making any changes
    if ( ! $is_new_item ) {
        return $pieces;
    }
    //make sure that all three fields are active
    $fields = array( 'post_title', 'artist', 'featuring_artist' );
    foreach( $fields as $field ) {
        if ( ! isset( $pieces[ 'fields_active' ][ $field ] ) ) {
            array_push ($pieces[ 'fields_active' ], $field );
        }
    }
    //set variables for fields empty first for saftey's sake
    $artist = $featuring_artist = '';
    //get value of "artist" if possible
    if ( isset( $pieces[ 'fields' ][ 'artist' ] ) && isset( $pieces[ 'fields'][ 'artist' ][ 'value' ] ) && is_string( $pieces[ 'fields' ][ 'artist' ][ 'value' ] ) ) {
        $artist = $pieces[ 'fields' ][ 'artist' ][ 'value' ]
    }
    //get value of "featuring_artist" if possible
    if ( isset( $pieces[ 'fields' ][ 'featuring_artist' ] ) && isset( $pieces[ 'fields'][ 'featuring_artist' ][ 'value' ] ) && is_string( $pieces[ 'fields' ][ 'featuring_artist' ][ 'value' ] ) ) {
        $featuring_artist = $pieces[ 'fields' ][ 'featuring_artist' ][ 'value' ]
    }
    //set post title using $artist and $featuring_artist
    $pieces[ 'object_fields' ][ 'post_title' ][ 'value' ] = $artist . ' and ' . $featuring_artist;
    //return $pieces to save
    return $pieces;
}

If i do php checker it says: “PHP Syntax Check: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘}’ in your code on line 20”

Hi @mallorcagirl76

Then you should check line 20 ??
It seems you are missing semocolons (;) at the end of some lines.

Cheers, Jory