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WordPress How to Build a WordPress Plugin Building a WordPress Plugin Settings Page Admin Area Forms in WordPress

Posted by Robert Wilde
Robert Wilde
Courses Plus Student 5,400 Points

challenge error

Challenge: Inside of the if statement, create a variable named "my_plugin_username". Assign it the HTML escaped value of the my_plugin_username input field.

Anwser:

function my_plugin_options_page() {

    if (!current_user_can('manage_options')) {
        wp_die('You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.');
    }

        if (!isset ($_POST['my_plugin_hidden_field'])) {
                $my_plugin_username = esc_html( $_POST['my_plugin_username'] );
        }
}

ERROR Bummer! esc_html should be called to sanitize the value of my_plugin_username.

not sure why?

2 Answers

Andrew McCormick
Andrew McCormick
17,730 Points
Andrew McCormick
Andrew McCormick
17,730 Points

The error is actually with your isset() function. The question asked to check if my_plugin_hidden_field was set, not if it was NOT set.
It will let you get away with using !isset() in the first question, but not in the second one. Change that and follow the yellow brick road... (trust me, I just copied and pasted your $my_plugin_username line and it worked fine.)

I also just emailed the bug to support.

Robert Wilde
PLUS
Robert Wilde
Courses Plus Student 5,400 Points
Robert Wilde
Robert Wilde
Courses Plus Student 5,400 Points

I figured that out later on but I passed the first challenge so I overlooked that. Thanks