Image advanced update via rest api

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May 3, 2022 at 7:57 AM #35850

Dragos
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Hi. I have this function below.

function add_images($id, $title, $img){
update_post_meta( $id, 'property_images', 4311);
}

the property_images is the id of image advance field. the 4311 is the id of the media. how can i add multiple images on update_post_meta function ? for example i have multiple ids. how to add that and have a multiple image. whenever i make it as an array, it doesnt work.

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May 3, 2022 at 7:58 AM #35851

Dragos
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can you give me some code snippet or a function that will append multiple image id on the image advanced field

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May 4, 2022 at 3:46 PM #35870

Dragos
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Hi Long. Need help for this.

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May 4, 2022 at 9:27 PM #35878

Long Nguyen
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Hi Dragos,

You can use the function add_post_meta() to add more value to a post with the same meta key (field ID). Read more on the documentation https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/add_post_meta/
https://docs.metabox.io/fields/image-advanced/#data

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May 5, 2022 at 8:05 AM #35887

Dragos
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Hi long,

Thank you for the reply. I already tried the add_post_meta, It did work on image gallery, can add multiple values, but theres one issue, if i go to the backend and try to edit it, the property images are not showing, even though theere are pictures on the frontend.

check this image: https://snipboard.io/JynRTp.jpg

image above is dine with add_post_meta

however this one is by manual adding on backend. https://snipboard.io/bZXMe1.jpg

you can see that there are images showing on the field and add media.

so problem is when I want to update the images, I cannot do it on the first one because theres no media showing and cannot add also.

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May 5, 2022 at 12:37 PM #35897
Long Nguyen
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Hi,

The function add_post_meta() works as well on my local site, please check this screen record https://monosnap.com/file/XPzx3xXkAdjR6wQU9otZGdqI0g7bbu

Code:
```
add_action( 'init', function() {
    add_post_meta( 2192, 'image_advanced_v4mq8tny1nh', 2484, false );
    add_post_meta( 2192, 'image_advanced_v4mq8tny1nh', 2483, false );
    add_post_meta( 2192, 'image_advanced_v4mq8tny1nh', 2481, false );
}, 99 );
```
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May 5, 2022 at 2:06 PM #35898

Dragos
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Hi,

Thank you. it is actually working. i just need to resave the post manually. can I run an action to save it again inside a function call?

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May 5, 2022 at 3:23 PM #35900

Dragos
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i also have one issue. i follow this tutorial https://metabox.io/display-uploaded-images-as-wordpress-image-gallery/ for converting the iamge advanced to wordpress gallery. the problem is in order for the gallery to show i need to attach each images to specific post. it is not automatically attaching to the post on which it was uploaded.

check this image: https://snipboard.io/nYQWeq.jpg

the first one i manually attached to the post, the others shows it is not attached although it was already uploaded to the post.

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May 5, 2022 at 9:08 PM #35904

Long Nguyen
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Hi,

If you use the helper function to get images from the custom field, no need to attach the image to a post because this option works like a custom field with the meta key _wp_attached_file.

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May 6, 2022 at 8:04 AM #35909
Dragos
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hi. the uploading comes from the flowmattic plugin which is not directly attached to the post. the upload comes first then after that it will just create a new post and set the correct images via flowmattic again.

what i did is to add some function that will attach the media to the post.
```
$attach = array(
'ID' => $img,
'post_parent' => $id
);
wp_update_post( $attach );
clean_attachment_cache($img);
```
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