function create_event_posts() { //calendar-ids and parameters are stored in variables outside of the function for reference in other functions global $calendarIds; global $optParams; //delete existing posts <-- This works fine! :) $allEvents = get_posts(array('post_type' => 'event', 'numberposts' => -1)); foreach ($allEvents as $eachEvent) { wp_delete_post($eachEvent -> ID, true); } //call to google calendar script require_once ABSPATH . '/path'path/to/vendor/autoload.php'; $client = new Google_Client(); $client -> setApplicationName('customCalendar'); $client -> setAuthConfig(ABSPATH . '/path'path/to/credentials.json'); $client = getClient(); $service = new Google_Service_Calendar($client); //collecting all the events foreach ($calendarIds as $calendarId) { $results = $service -> events -> listEvents($calendarId, $optParams); $events[] = $results -> getItems(); } $events = flatten($events); foreach ($events as $event) { $eventContent = $eventTitle = $eventColor = $calendarTitle = ''; $calendarTitle = $event -> organizer -> displayName; $eventContent = apply_filters('the_content', $event -> getDescription()); $start = $event -> start -> dateTime; $end = $event -> end -> dateTime; $fmt = new \IntlDateFormatter('nb-NO', NULL, NULL); $fmt -> setPattern('EEEE d. MMMM'); $outputDate = $fmt -> format(strtotime($start)); $outputStart = date('H:i', strtotime($start)); $outputEnd = date('H:i', strtotime($end)); if (empty($start)) { $start = $event -> start -> date; } $eventPost = array( 'post_author' => 1, 'post_date' => date('Y-m-d H:i:s'), 'post_content' => $eventContent, 'post_title' => $eventTitle, 'post_excerpt' => $outputDate . ', kl. ' . $outputStart . ' – ' . $outputEnd, 'post_status' => 'publish', 'post_type' => 'event', 'post_category' => array($eventCategory), //I cut out the part where this variable is defined, to save space 'meta_input' => array( '_EventStartDate' => $start, '_Room' => $calendarTitle, ), ); if (!post_exists($eventTitle, $eventContent, '', 'event')) { $post_ID = wp_insert_post($eventPost); } } } function create_event_posts() { //calendar-ids and parameters are stored in variables outside of the function for reference in other functions global $calendarIds; global $optParams; //delete existing posts <-- This works fine! :) $allEvents = get_posts(array('post_type' => 'event', 'numberposts' => -1)); foreach ($allEvents as $eachEvent) { wp_delete_post($eachEvent -> ID, true); } //call to google calendar script require_once ABSPATH . '/path/to/vendor/autoload.php'; $client = new Google_Client(); $client -> setApplicationName('customCalendar'); $client -> setAuthConfig(ABSPATH . '/path/to/credentials.json'); $client = getClient(); $service = new Google_Service_Calendar($client); //collecting all the events foreach ($calendarIds as $calendarId) { $results = $service -> events -> listEvents($calendarId, $optParams); $events[] = $results -> getItems(); } $events = flatten($events); foreach ($events as $event) { $eventContent = $eventTitle = $eventColor = $calendarTitle = ''; $calendarTitle = $event -> organizer -> displayName; $eventContent = apply_filters('the_content', $event -> getDescription()); $start = $event -> start -> dateTime; $end = $event -> end -> dateTime; $fmt = new \IntlDateFormatter('nb-NO', NULL, NULL); $fmt -> setPattern('EEEE d. MMMM'); $outputDate = $fmt -> format(strtotime($start)); $outputStart = date('H:i', strtotime($start)); $outputEnd = date('H:i', strtotime($end)); if (empty($start)) { $start = $event -> start -> date; } $eventPost = array( 'post_author' => 1, 'post_date' => date('Y-m-d H:i:s'), 'post_content' => $eventContent, 'post_title' => $eventTitle, 'post_excerpt' => $outputDate . ', kl. ' . $outputStart . ' – ' . $outputEnd, 'post_status' => 'publish', 'post_type' => 'event', 'post_category' => array($eventCategory), //I cut out the part where this variable is defined, to save space 'meta_input' => array( '_EventStartDate' => $start, '_Room' => $calendarTitle, ), ); if (!post_exists($eventTitle, $eventContent, '', 'event')) { $post_ID = wp_insert_post($eventPost); } } } function create_event_posts() { //calendar-ids and parameters are stored in variables outside of the function for reference in other functions global $calendarIds; global $optParams; //delete existing posts <-- This works fine! :) $allEvents = get_posts(array('post_type' => 'event', 'numberposts' => -1)); foreach ($allEvents as $eachEvent) { wp_delete_post($eachEvent -> ID, true); } //call to google calendar script require_once ABSPATH . 'path/to/vendor/autoload.php'; $client = new Google_Client(); $client -> setApplicationName('customCalendar'); $client -> setAuthConfig(ABSPATH . 'path/to/credentials.json'); $client = getClient(); $service = new Google_Service_Calendar($client); //collecting all the events foreach ($calendarIds as $calendarId) { $results = $service -> events -> listEvents($calendarId, $optParams); $events[] = $results -> getItems(); } $events = flatten($events); foreach ($events as $event) { $eventContent = $eventTitle = $eventColor = $calendarTitle = ''; $calendarTitle = $event -> organizer -> displayName; $eventContent = apply_filters('the_content', $event -> getDescription()); $start = $event -> start -> dateTime; $end = $event -> end -> dateTime; $fmt = new \IntlDateFormatter('nb-NO', NULL, NULL); $fmt -> setPattern('EEEE d. MMMM'); $outputDate = $fmt -> format(strtotime($start)); $outputStart = date('H:i', strtotime($start)); $outputEnd = date('H:i', strtotime($end)); if (empty($start)) { $start = $event -> start -> date; } $eventPost = array( 'post_author' => 1, 'post_date' => date('Y-m-d H:i:s'), 'post_content' => $eventContent, 'post_title' => $eventTitle, 'post_excerpt' => $outputDate . ', kl. ' . $outputStart . ' – ' . $outputEnd, 'post_status' => 'publish', 'post_type' => 'event', 'post_category' => array($eventCategory), //I cut out the part where this variable is defined, to save space 'meta_input' => array( '_EventStartDate' => $start, '_Room' => $calendarTitle, ), ); if (!post_exists($eventTitle, $eventContent, '', 'event')) { $post_ID = wp_insert_post($eventPost); } } } Cron job for creating posts not excecuting properly
I've written a PHP script to create custom posts programmatically from Google Calendar events, and an action hook that purges all existing events and repopulates it with current ones. This works fine when I click the button I've added to the views. However, when I try to excecute the hook as a cron job (using the WP Control plugin) it purges existing posts, but it does not create new ones. The only output I get from debugging is a warning about contextual_help being deprecated, which I don't think is relevant for this – but I could be wrong, of course.
Here's (the relevant parts of) the code:
function create_event_posts() { //calendar-ids and parameters are stored in variables outside of the function for reference in other functions global $calendarIds; global $optParams; //delete existing posts <-- This works fine! :) $allEvents = get_posts(array('post_type' => 'event', 'numberposts' => -1)); foreach ($allEvents as $eachEvent) { wp_delete_post($eachEvent -> ID, true); } //call to google calendar script require_once ABSPATH . '/path/to/vendor/autoload.php'; $client = new Google_Client(); $client -> setApplicationName('customCalendar'); $client -> setAuthConfig(ABSPATH . '/path/to/credentials.json'); $client = getClient(); $service = new Google_Service_Calendar($client); //collecting all the events foreach ($calendarIds as $calendarId) { $results = $service -> events -> listEvents($calendarId, $optParams); $events[] = $results -> getItems(); } $events = flatten($events); foreach ($events as $event) { $eventContent = $eventTitle = $eventColor = $calendarTitle = ''; $calendarTitle = $event -> organizer -> displayName; $eventContent = apply_filters('the_content', $event -> getDescription()); $start = $event -> start -> dateTime; $end = $event -> end -> dateTime; $fmt = new \IntlDateFormatter('nb-NO', NULL, NULL); $fmt -> setPattern('EEEE d. MMMM'); $outputDate = $fmt -> format(strtotime($start)); $outputStart = date('H:i', strtotime($start)); $outputEnd = date('H:i', strtotime($end)); if (empty($start)) { $start = $event -> start -> date; } $eventPost = array( 'post_author' => 1, 'post_date' => date('Y-m-d H:i:s'), 'post_content' => $eventContent, 'post_title' => $eventTitle, 'post_excerpt' => $outputDate . ', kl. ' . $outputStart . ' – ' . $outputEnd, 'post_status' => 'publish', 'post_type' => 'event', 'post_category' => array($eventCategory), //I cut out the part where this variable is defined, to save space 'meta_input' => array( '_EventStartDate' => $start, '_Room' => $calendarTitle, ), ); if (!post_exists($eventTitle, $eventContent, '', 'event')) { $post_ID = wp_insert_post($eventPost); } } } And the hook is:
add_action('admin_post_create_event_posts', 'create_event_posts'); lang-php