Jamie Robe

Thanks Jory,
Turns out everything was firing, but I wasn’t able to get the function to write into my own log file. My bad 😉 I think that was a permissions thing. What tricked me was that save_post was working (and logging into my log file) when I clicked update on a regular post or page, but not a CPT. I isolated it being only a PODS issue by coding a simple CPT in a test plugin and that also did not appear to work, so I figured out it must have been something of my doing…

I simply set up the wp_debug log and a write_log function, and using that could see it was actually working for any CPT, including a pods CPT 🙂 My confidence in using PODS and debugging a complex app is high – thanks to you and your team for building a great system.

In case this helps any future programmer, here is soem code to help debug:

//////
// This is a logging function for any debugging task 
// NOTES:  Youy must have the following lines in the wp-config.php file in the root folder, which
//      puts a debug.log text file under the wp-content folder under root
//
//
// define( 'WP_DEBUG', true );
// define( 'WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY', false );
// define( 'WP_DEBUG_LOG', true );
//
// NOTES: install Error Log Viewer Plugin by bestwebsoft to view log from admin menu

// for error logging
if (!function_exists('write_log')) {
    function write_log ( $log ) {
        if ( true === WP_DEBUG ) {
            if ( is_array( $log ) || is_object( $log )) {
                error_log( print_r( $log, true ));
            
            } else {
                error_log( $log );
            }
        }
    }
}

//
//////

You can then use the log to test what is happening “behind the scenes”:

add_action( 'save_post', 'psc_anyposttype_save', 10, 3 );

function psc_anyposttype_save($post_id, $post, $update) {

write_log('I am in the save_post hook for post_id = '.$post_id.' -- post post id = '.$post->ID.' -- type='.$post->post_type);

} 

Again, encountering bugs and problems can be very frustrating for coders, BUT it sure helps you understand the framework better, so it was a constructive (even if very frustrating) few days. Good luck everyone and as they say on Gallaxy Quest … never surrender 🙂

LOL it is CTRL H. Works great!

Hi Bruce,
I did a little research in ACE Editor and found that there is a configuration option that can be set.

In the plugin I found the code at Includes/File_manager/lib/js/extras/editors.default.js

around line 992 , I found enableLiveAutocompletion: false
So I set that line to true. Now it does the programming auto complete when I open any file in the ace editor.

ace.config.loadModule('ace/ext/language_tools', function () {
								ace.require('ace/ext/language_tools');
								editor.setOptions({
									enableBasicAutocompletion: true,
									enableSnippets: true,
									enableLiveAutocompletion: true
								});

My problem is that when I open the Ace Editor options panel I can’t seem to close or save any changes to any option.
The solution I have above will obviously revert back to the false when the plugin gets update. If you have any suggestions on how to keep this enableLiveAutocompletion: true please let me know 🙂

I wish this were a user settable Filester plugin option. This is a fundamental tool for any programmer using any editor on PHP or CSS.

I am not sure if codemirror has a similar autocomplete setting or not. But Ace seems pretty powerful.

Jamie