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How to allow editing field values thru Frontend Submission by the author only?

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  • June 6, 2018 at 2:51 AM #10066
    EddyPiVEddyPiV
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    Members of my website enter their profile information through Frontend Submission.
    The info is shown in the frontend: post + all fields.

    How do I give a member the possibility to edit his data in the frontend?

    First of all: only for his own post (there is only 1 post per member) there should be a link (preferrably a button) to this edit form.
    How to do that?

    Second: how to have an edit form in Frontend Submission with all values from the database filled?

    Thanks for your help.

    June 18, 2018 at 7:34 PM #10240
    EddyPiVEddyPiV
    Participant

    Hi Anh,

    I have installed the Frontier plugin, which allows my users to edit their own post(s) in the front-end.
    All well, but what remains is how to allow them to edit the MB fields in the front-end?

    June 22, 2018 at 3:54 AM #10297
    lighterdayzlighterdayz
    Participant

    Following for the answer.

    June 22, 2018 at 11:54 AM #10305
    Anh TranAnh Tran
    Keymaster

    Hi,

    Each submitted post will have an unique post ID. You need to get that ID and set it in the post_id attribute of the mb_frontend_form shortcode. That will allows user to edit the info.

    There is a similar topic that you might be interested in.

    June 28, 2018 at 3:08 PM #10371
    EddyPiVEddyPiV
    Participant

    That works great, to a large extent.

    As I want to allow users to edit their own fleds in the frontend, it should only be possible for their own posts, i.e. where the author = logged in user.

    Any suggestion?

    June 28, 2018 at 5:07 PM #10372
    Anh TranAnh Tran
    Keymaster

    You can:

    • Get the author of the submitted post (via post_id)
    • Get the current user ID

    And just compare them. When they match, output the shortcode. Otherwise, output some error message.

    June 28, 2018 at 6:01 PM #10373
    EddyPiVEddyPiV
    Participant

    That's how far I got as well. I was hoping you could give me some php code, as I am not familiar with php myself. And I guess this may be useful for other users as well?

    June 29, 2018 at 1:15 PM #10378
    EddyPiVEddyPiV
    Participant

    I managed to display the link only for the author. This item can be closed now. Thanks.

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