Bundling up content by adding posts to a custom post type

  • Unknown's avatar
    runemk · Member ·

    Hello,

    I am trying to create a custom post type called “Bundle”. From the custom post type the user is able to select which content they wish to be included in the bundle, be it posts or other custom post types. I’d like them to be displayed kind of the same way as this

    http://wp.tutsplus.com/tutorials/display-style-related-posts-for-your-wordpress-site/

    Right now my problem is diplaying it the right way, and i cannot get it to save the content i’ve selected through the check boxes.

    add_action('add_meta_boxes', 'bundle_content_meta_box_INIT');
    function bundle_content_meta_box_INIT() {
    add_meta_box('bundle_content', 'Add Content to the bundle', 'add_content_box', 'bundle','normal');
    }
    function add_content_box(){
    global $post;

    // => add_content_box()
    $checks_array = get_post_meta($post->ID, "checks", true);

    $checks = explode (",",$checks_array);

    $query = new WP_Query( array ('post_type' => array ('post','page','videos')));

    $rows = array("post" => array(), "page" => array(), "videos" => array());

    while ($query->have_posts()) : $query->the_post();
    $check_text='';
    if(in_array($post->ID, $checks)) {
    $check_text='checked';
    }
    $row_html = "<input type='checkbox' $chk_text name='chks[]' value='" . $post->ID . "' id='chk-" . $post->ID . "'> ". $post->post_title;

    $rows[$post->post_type][] = $row_html;
    endwhile;

    foreach($rows as $post_type => $post_type_rows){
    echo "<h2>".ucfirst($post_type)."</h2>";
    echo implode("
    ", $post_type_rows);
    }

    echo '<input type="hidden" name="bundle_content_meta_box_nonce" id="" value="' . wp_create_nonce( plugin_basename(__FILE__) ) . '" />';
    }

    add_action('save_post', 'bundle_content_save_data');

    // saving meta box data
    function bundle_content_save_data($post_id) {
    global $post;

    // => bundle_content_save_data
    global $post;

    if ( !wp_verify_nonce( $_POST['bundle_content_meta_box_nonce'], plugin_basename(__FILE__) )) {
    return $post->ID;
    }

    // Is the user allowed to edit the post or page?
    if ( !current_user_can( 'edit_post', $post->ID ))
    return $post->ID;

    // OK, we're authenticated: we need to find and save the data
    // We'll put it into an array to make it easier to loop though.

    $meta_box["checks"] = $_POST["checks"];

    // Add values of $events_meta as custom fields

    foreach ($meta_box as $key => $value) { // Cycle through the $events_meta array!
    if( $post->post_type == 'revision' ) return; // Don't store custom data twice
    $value = implode(',', (array)$value); // If $value is an array, make it a CSV (unlikely)
    if(get_post_meta($post->ID, $key, FALSE)) { // If the custom field already has a value
    update_post_meta($post->ID, $key, $value);
    } else { // If the custom field doesn't have a value
    add_post_meta($post->ID, $key, $value);
    }
    if(!$value) delete_post_meta($post->ID, $key); // Delete if blank
    }
    }

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