Hi all. I have some code that was provided to me my a Wordpress plugin developer that generate membership IDs for members in a database. However, I need to change the format of the membership ID as I don’t want it to just be 4 digits. The current code is as follows:
<?php
/**
* Plugin Name: PDB Generate Member ID
* Description: provides a unique ID for new signups and new records in Participants Database
* Version: 2.0
*/
class pdb_generate_member_id {
/**
* @var string name of the member id field
*/
private $id_field = 'member_id';
/**
* @var string the starting member ID value
*/
private $start_value = 1000;
/**
* initializes the plugin
*/
public function __construct()
{
// this is used when a signup form is submitted
add_filter( 'pdb-after_submit_signup', array($this, 'maybe_save_member_id') );
// this is used when a new record is added from the backend
add_filter( 'pdb-after_submit_add', array($this, 'maybe_save_member_id') );
// this is used when a new record is added from the backend
add_filter( 'pdb-after_submit_update', array($this, 'maybe_save_member_id') );
}
/**
* saves the new member ID
*
* this is called after the record is added or updated
*
* @param array $record the submitted data
*/
public function maybe_save_member_id( $record )
{
if ( $this->record_needs_id( $record ) ) {
$this->store_member_id( $record['id'], $this->generate_new_member_id() );
}
}
/**
* checks the record to see if it needs a member ID assigned
*
* @param array $record the incoming record values
* @return bool true if the record needs an ID
*/
private function record_needs_id( $record )
{
$saved_record = Participants_Db::get_participant( $record['id'] );
$field_def = Participants_Db::$fields[$this->id_field];
return ! isset( $saved_record[$this->id_field] ) || empty( $saved_record[$this->id_field] ) || $saved_record[$this->id_field] === $field_def->default_value();
}
/**
* saves the member ID to the database
*
* @global wpdb $spdb
*
* @param int $record_id
* @param string $id the member ID to save
*/
private function store_member_id( $record_id, $id )
{
global $wpdb;
$wpdb->update( Participants_Db::$participants_table, array( $this->id_field => $id ), array( 'id' => $record_id ) );
}
/**
* generates the new ID
*
*
* @return string the new member ID
*/
private function generate_new_member_id()
{
$last_id = $this->last_saved_member_id();
if ( !$last_id ) {
// no ids have been saved yet, so we start here
$last_id = $this->start_value;
}
/*
* we start the process with the previous ID
*/
$new_id = $last_id;
/*
* this will keep looping as long as the ID we are trying is not unique
*
* as soon as we try a unique one, it will break out of the loop
*/
while ( !$this->member_id_is_unique( $new_id ) ) {
/*
* this is where we generate the new ID
*
* you could make up your own formula here, for this example we simply increment the value
*/
$new_id = $new_id + 1;
}
return $new_id;
}
/**
* provides the last entered ID
*
* @global wpdb $wpdb
*/
private function last_saved_member_id()
{
global $wpdb;
$sql = 'SELECT `' . $this->id_field . '` FROM ' . Participants_Db::$participants_table . ' ORDER BY `date_recorded` DESC LIMIT 1';
return $wpdb->get_var( $sql );
}
/**
* checks for a duplicate ID
*
* @global wodb $wpdb
* @param string $member_id the id value
* @return bool true if the value is unique
*/
private function member_id_is_unique( $member_id )
{
global $wpdb;
$sql = 'SELECT `id` FROM ' . Participants_Db::$participants_table . ' WHERE ' . $this->id_field . ' = "%s"';
$result = $wpdb->get_col( $wpdb->prepare( $sql, $member_id ) );
return $wpdb->num_rows === 0;
}
}
new pdb_generate_member_id(); // instantiates the class
What I’m after is a member_id that is comprised of the first 4 characters from the last_name field and then add the 4-digit code to that. Apparently it’s easy to do, but the developer won’t do it for me. He did however offer this advice:
When the maybe_save_member_id method is called by the filter, the contents of the record is passed in. You can pass that info along to the generate_new_member_id method so you can use that info to construct your ID.
Any help really, really appreciated. Thanks, Doug.