I am building a Wordpress site where we want to automatically populate wordpress posts from an EXTERNAL (not wordpress) database. I have already created a code that successfully checks the external database for post title and if it is not found, creates the post. This is great, but I am also trying to "update" the post if the title is found. I have attempted to update my code to do this, but when run the code in my plugin I get an error that says
Can anyone help me fix my code to insert NEW posts and update OLD posts? Here is my code, your expertise is much appreciated!!!
Code:
Notice: Undefined variable: page_name in /var/www/html/dev2/wp-content/plugins/hello/hello.php on line 54 Fatal error: Cannot redeclare get_page_id() (previously declared in /var/www/html/dev2/wp-content/plugins/hello/hello.php:49) in /var/www/html/dev2/wp-content/plugins/hello/hello.php on line 49
Can anyone help me fix my code to insert NEW posts and update OLD posts? Here is my code, your expertise is much appreciated!!!
Code:
<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Post Updater
Plugin URI: http://wordpress.org/
Description:
Author: Matt
Author URI:
Version: 2.3
Text Domain:
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
*/
// Add Shortcode
function hello() {
// Code
global $wpdb;
$sql = <<<SQL
SELECT cool_name, cool_content
FROM cool_test.cool_table
SQL;
$rebates = $wpdb->get_results( $sql );
foreach ( $rebates as $rebate ){
$new_post = array(
'post_title' => $rebate->cool_name,
'post_content' => $rebate->cool_content,
'post_status' => 'publish',
'post_date' => date('Y-m-d H:i:s'),
'post_author' => 31,
'post_type' => 'post',
'post_category' => array(10)
);
$page_exists = get_page_by_title( $rebate->cool_name, OBJECT, 'post' );
if( $page_exists == null ) {
// Page doesn't exist, so lets add it
$insert = wp_insert_post( $new_post );
if( $insert ) {
// Page was inserted
}
} else {
// Page already exists
function get_page_id($page_name){
global $wpdb;
$page_name = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT ID FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_name = '".$page_name."'");
}
$updatePost = array(
'ID' => $page_name,
'post_content' => $rebate->cool_content
);
// Update the post into the database
wp_update_post( $updatePost );
}
}
}
add_shortcode( 'hello', 'hello' );
?>