No way to find the author of an item when using pods_api_pre_save_pod_item

[lougreenwood]

It seems that when using the pods_api_pre_save_pod_item filter, there's no way to know the author of the item about to be saved.

In my use case, wp_get_current_user can't be used, because the current user may be an admin creating a record for someone else.

[lougreenwood]

Ok, seems this is possible using some un-documented steps:

set number of params for pods_api_pre_save_pod_item add action to 3 (docs state 2).

This provides the post ID of the item to be saved (presumably auto-draft....?).

In the handler method for the filter, do $author_id = (int) get_post_field( 'post_author', $id ); where $id is the third param provided by by pods_api_pre_save_pod_item.

Perhaps the docs need updating with this 3rd param?

[quasel]

hi take a look at
https://docs.pods.io/code-snippets/create-post-title-from-fields-in-the-post-using-pods_api_pre_save/

the author is part of $pieces[ 'object_fields' ] like the post title - sorry for the trouble :(

@jimtrue maybe a thing for updating docs!

[jimtrue]

@quasel I'd say on these what is more helpful? We can't possibly document every single thing in $pieces because it's a huge structure. We could give folks a 'road map' to identify where to find things they more than likely would be using.

@sc0ttkclark Does that sound like something you could easily do?