Award points if a specific custom taxonomy is selected - Cubepoints

Question

I run a multiple author platform where Cubepoints is a major part of its point and ranking system.

I have added a custom category taxonomy called highlight and it contains two items: featured and spotlight.

Whenever an excellent post is submitted, an editor check it as featured or spotlight - both of which gives the article a lot of exposure on the site. If the users article is highlighted, they receives a custom amount of extra points. The problem is that the editors are forced to add these points manually by browsing to Cubepoints / Add Points.

This is an exhausting process to do manually. How can I make this work automatically? This means that if featured is checked for the custom taxonomy (highlight), then the user gets 30 points with the description "Your article has been featured", and if spotlight is selected, they receive 50 points with a similar form of description.

Unfortunately, the Cubepoints API documentation is noneexistent, however, I good tutorial was recently written by a user.

Answer 1

The bulk of your question seems to me to be about Cubepoint's API, with is off topic here. The WordPress part would be this:

1. I am not sure how your system works, or is supposed too work, but it sounds like you want to hook into save_post, but I am guessing about that part. Maybe you are doing this with AJAX or with something on the front end.
2. Check for your fields
3. Use WP_HTTP to submit to Codepoint's API, which doesn't look that difficult to deal with-- cp_api=user/login/billly/points/add/500 (or cp_api=user/id/5/points/add/500) It looks like you want wp_remote_get for that

It should look something like:

function mypoints($oost_id) {
    // check to see if you need to update your points
    // I don't know what all the parameters for that are but
    if ( $need_to_update_points === true) {
        $apiresponse = wp_remote_get("http://www.your-site.com/?cp_api_key=abc123&cp_api=user/login/billy/points/add/25/log/custom/Happy+Birthday!");
        // check api response for sanity
    }

}
add_action('save_post','mypoints');

I am not sure why the example in your tutorial is submitting to "your-site.com". Maybe I didn't read part of that carefully enough. :) That is the idea though.