remote request from functions.php is not working

Question

I am writing a custom function for a post_updated action in wordpress like below:

function post_update_trigger($post_ID, $post_after, $post_before){

    if($post_after->post_status == "publish" || $post_after->post_status == "trash" ){

        $url="https://myremoteurl.com/feed/blogAPI";

       $response = wp_remote_post($url,array(
                         'method' => 'POST',
                         'timeout' => 45,
                         'redirection' => 5,
                         'httpversion' => '1.0',
                         'blocking' => true,
                         'headers' => array(),
                         'body' => $postFields,
                         'cookies' => array()
                       ));

           if ( is_wp_error( $response ) ) {
                    $error_message = $response->get_error_message();
                    echo "Something went wrong: $error_message";exit;
            } else {
                    echo 'Response:<pre>';
                   print_r( $response );exit;
                   echo '</pre>';
    }

    }

}

add_action( 'post_updated', 'post_update_trigger', 10, 3 );

I tried the post request from postman. everything seems to be fine and working. other than wp_remote_post, i tried CURL too.

What i am doing wrong.

see my post man request:

PS: The blog is present in sub folder of the project root. is this causing the problem?

Answer 1

the error is due to requesting same origin as remote, i.e my controller is at https://dev.kidengage.com/feed/blogAPI.

But my wordpress is in subfolder of root directory which is at https://dev.kidengage.com/blog.

so using wp_remote_post will result in funky response.

I ended up storing the array using like below directly from wordpress to another db which my root is using.

        global $wpdb;

        $newdb = new wpdb('username','password','dagtabasename','localhost');
        $newdb->show_errors();

        $postExist= $newdb->get_row("select * from blogMaster where postID=$post_ID");

        if(empty($postExist)){

            $insert=array(
                "postID" => $post_ID,
                "postTitle" => $post_after->post_title,
                "postContent" => $post_after->post_content ,
                "postExcerpt" =>  $post_after->post_excerpt,
                "postType" =>  $post_after->post_type,
                "postGuid" => $post_after->guid ,
                "postPermLink" =>  $permLink,
                "postThumb" =>  $thumbLarge,
                "postAuthorName" => $authorName,
                "postAuthorPic" => $authorURL ,
                "postStatus" => $post_after->post_status,
                "postDate" =>  $post_after->post_date,
                "postModified" =>  $post_after->post_modified
            );


            $newdb->insert("blogMaster",$insert);    

        }