I'm using Tom McFarlin's WordPress-Plugin-Boilerplate along with JoeSz's Tutorial.

I'm loading in a complex options item using

$options = get_option($this->plugin_name);

This works fine for the load and for accessing the items. What I don't understand as yet is how to update the modified options back into the db.

For example, if I update the $options blob with

$options['stamp1'] = (isset($input['stamp1']) && !empty($input['stamp1'])) ? esc_attr($input['stamp1']) : (new DateTime('NOW'))->format('c');
$options['stamp2'] = (isset($input['stamp2']) && !empty($input['stamp2'])) ? esc_attr($input['stamp2']) : (new DateTime('NOW'))->format('c');
$options['stamp3'] = (isset($input['stamp3']) && !empty($input['stamp3'])) ? esc_attr($input['stamp3']) : (new DateTime('NOW'))->format('c');
$options['stamp4'] = (isset($input['stamp4']) && !empty($input['stamp4'])) ? esc_attr($input['stamp4']) : (new DateTime('NOW'))->format('c');

the documentation for update_option makes it's obvious that

update_option($this->plugin_name );

isn't going to work.

There is a register_setting in my class-...-public.php but it's not particularly obvious (to me anyway) how this gets called and whether it's actually updating the options in the db.

Clues?

I'm using Tom McFarlin's WordPress-Plugin-Boilerplate along with JoeSz's Tutorial.

I'm loading in a complex options item using

$options = get_option($this->plugin_name);

This works fine for the load and for accessing the items. What I don't understand as yet is how to update the modified options back into the db.

For example, if I update the $options blob with

$options['stamp1'] = (isset($input['stamp1']) && !empty($input['stamp1'])) ? esc_attr($input['stamp1']) : (new DateTime('NOW'))->format('c');
$options['stamp2'] = (isset($input['stamp2']) && !empty($input['stamp2'])) ? esc_attr($input['stamp2']) : (new DateTime('NOW'))->format('c');
$options['stamp3'] = (isset($input['stamp3']) && !empty($input['stamp3'])) ? esc_attr($input['stamp3']) : (new DateTime('NOW'))->format('c');
$options['stamp4'] = (isset($input['stamp4']) && !empty($input['stamp4'])) ? esc_attr($input['stamp4']) : (new DateTime('NOW'))->format('c');

the documentation for update_option makes it's obvious that

update_option($this->plugin_name );

isn't going to work.

There is a register_setting in my class-...-public.php but it's not particularly obvious (to me anyway) how this gets called and whether it's actually updating the options in the db.

Clues?

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1 Answer 1

Having figured it out I'm a bit embarrassed. Nevertheless,

        update_option($this->plugin_name, $options);