Get current user, change users post status to published

Question

I am making a booking site, where cabins are a custom post. Users pay with Woocommerce subscription to have their cabins visible on the site.

Therefore, I need to check if the user have an active subscription in order to publish the post(s) created.

Currently, I check if the user have an active subscription like so:

if (has_woocommerce_subscription('','','active')) {

While this works, it is clearly not changing the post status.

So my question is, how do I get the current user, the users posts id, the status etc., and change the post status to published?

I found this in another thread, although, it changes the post status from published to draft, so I'm guessing it could be similar?

add_action('publish_post', 'check_user_publish', 10, 2);

function check_user_publish ($post_id, $post) {

    $user_id = get_current_user_id();

    if ($user_id != $post->post_author)
        return;

    $query = array(
        'ID' => $post_id,
        'post_status' => 'draft',
    );
    wp_update_post( $query, true );

}}

Ideally, this check should be run maybe once a day if possible?

Thanks

Answer 1

The database holds several rows for each attribute of a post. All except on row should have status inherit. So I just hope the post_id is correct.

Anyway, yes you are correct to assume that it is similar:

$query = array(
  'ID' => $post_id,
  'post_status' => 'publish',
);
wp_update_post( $query, true );

Oh and

add_action('publish_post'...

adds the check when the post is being published (so no need to check once a day).