Post Points Functions

[ansonphong]

Hi Haidy, I'm working with the post points functions and I'm finding they're not doing what is expected. Here are some instances :

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cache_user_posts_points() Has no method

You can see by the function, that the function is simply acting as an alias of calculate_user_posts_points() (which is good), although it's not doing it's work by caching the actual points or writing anything to the table.

function cache_user_posts_points ( $user_id ){
  return calculate_user_posts_points($user_id);
}

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cache_user_posts_points() Returning wrong value

For instance, when running : cache_user_posts_points(), it seems to generally work well, although there are two major issues:

Code:

echo json_encode( cache_user_posts_points ( $displayed_user_id ) );

Result:

{"total":96,"0":{"post_type":{"post":"0","link":"0","blog":"3","event":0,"":"81","feature":"12"}}}

1. The result isn't being written into the wp_postworld_user_meta table
2. There is an unknown value "":"81" which is adding 81 points to the user from an unknown post type (these points don't seem to be anywhere in the points table)

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Please help me solve these issues so that all the good work you've invested in these functions can be implemented.

[ansonphong]

I found another vital issue with the way the points are working, whereby the post types seem to be hard-coded into two of the functions.

Post Types Hard-coded

In postworld_points.php you can see on lines 127 and 248 there are custom post_types which are being hard coded into default results. (I changed event to 'tribe_events')

array("post_type"=> array ("post"=> 0,"link" =>0,"blog" =>0, "tribe_events" => 0));

We need to use get_post_types to get the actual current registered post_types: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_post_types

Here is a post type query which should work:

$args = array(
   'public'   => true,
   '_builtin' => false
);

$output = 'names'; // names or objects, note names is the default
$operator = 'and'; // 'and' or 'or'

$post_types = get_post_types( $args, $output, $operator ); 

[ansonphong]

BTW - the 'Share Karma' is working very well - I'm happy about that.

[ansonphong]

OK this thread is closed - I can fix the hard-coded post types.