Topic: [Resolved] Add activity meta

[Resolved] Add activity meta

@mpa4hu

Participant

10 years, 9 months ago

Hello

I found function which acts as bp_activity_update_meta but has not found any function which will do exactly it.

I mean this function will search for meta, if it exist it will replace it, else create new one.

I want to add multiple metas for the same activity with same name name, so update will not do.

Of course I can write my own SQL, but since I didn’t found such function maybe it does not even exist – so here comes my doubts: maybe its not right to do this?

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@modemlooper

Moderator

10 years, 9 months ago
```
function add_meta_to_activity( $content, $user_id, $activity_id ) {

    $value = array(
     'key1' => 'val1',
     'key2 => 'val2'
    );

    bp_activity_update_meta( $activity_id, 'key', $value );

}
add_action( ‘bp_activity_posted_update’, ‘add_meta_to_activity’, 10, 3 );
```
@mpa4hu

Participant

10 years, 9 months ago

This does not answer my question and this is just a way to save array to meta.

The thing I want is to insert multiple metas with the same key
And question is if its breaks something, if not I can write function myself.

@mpa4hu

Participant

10 years, 9 months ago

See this link for more information
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22580088/mysql-search-for-id-in-array

@modemlooper

Moderator

10 years, 9 months ago

BP 2.0 adds bp_activity_add_meta()

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/bp-activity/bp-activity-functions.php#L658

But I’m not sure you can have same key. There is $unique which seems to imply you may have multiple values.

// cc @boonebgorges
@mpa4hu

Participant

10 years, 9 months ago
Interesting

The idea came when I was searching for solution and found this

#WordPress Un Comparateur FIND_IN_SET pour les meta_queries

I was implementing find_in_set meta query and read the comment below by Willy. Since I don’t want new table for something simple, this sound like a good idea

Wordpress allows same key for multiple metas.
Now when I look at that function I think this should allow too, but I want some confirmation before I continue.
```
	 * @param bool $unique. Optional. Whether to enforce a single metadata value 
 	 *        for the given key. If true, and the object already has a value for 
 	 *        the key, no change will be made. Default: false. 
```
@boonebgorges

Keymaster

10 years, 9 months ago

@modemlooper is correct: bp_activity_add_meta() will let you do what you’re looking to do. It’ll be available in BP 2.0.

@mpa4hu

Participant

10 years, 9 months ago

Thanks for great support.

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