https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/update-user-meta-with-value-processed-in-form-submition Gravity Support Forums Topic: Update user meta with value processed in form submition en-US Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:33:10 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/update-user-meta-with-value-processed-in-form-submition#post-75684 Sun, 16 Sep 2012 14:59:15 +0000 Chris Hajer 75684@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Glad you were able to work it out. Nice customization. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/update-user-meta-with-value-processed-in-form-submition#post-75665 Sun, 16 Sep 2012 11:29:12 +0000 brubrant2 75665@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hi Chris, </p> <p>when tested at gform_pre_submission hook then started to work, pretty weird, but great, I got what I wanted.</p> <p>Thank you for your attention!</p> <p>Regards. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/update-user-meta-with-value-processed-in-form-submition#post-75638 Sun, 16 Sep 2012 08:25:51 +0000 Chris Hajer 75638@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>As a troubleshooting step, can you dump the $_FILES array with both the gform_pre_submission and gform_after_submission hook to see what it contains? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/update-user-meta-with-value-processed-in-form-submition#post-75574 Sat, 15 Sep 2012 17:42:15 +0000 brubrant2 75574@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I need to run the function <code>wp_handle_upload()</code> on file sent by form contain file field, and then use returned value of this function to update the meta user after registered.</p> <p>In addition to several other attempts my last were:</p> <pre><code>add_action(&quot;gform_after_submission_5&quot;, &quot;v5_armazena_avatar&quot;); function v5_armazena_avatar() { global $avatar; $avatar = wp_handle_upload( $_FILES[&#39;input_5&#39;], array( &#39;test_form&#39; =&gt; false ) ); } add_action(&quot;gform_user_registered&quot;, &quot;v5_atualiza_avatar&quot;, 10 ); function v5_atualiza_avatar($user_id) { global $avatar; update_user_meta( $user_id, &#39;simple_local_avatar&#39;, array( &#39;full&#39; =&gt; $avatar[&#39;url&#39;] ) ); }</code></pre> <p>Currently the custom meta user is stored with value: a:1:{s:4:"full";s:0:"";}</p> <p>The problem is that I do not know at wich hook I have access to the global PHP <code>$ _FILES</code>.</p> <p>I also tried <code>gform_pre_submission</code> hook.</p> <p>Any thoughts will be appreciated.</p> <p>Thanks. </p>