Change Wordpress user role on gravityforms submission - php

Question

I am using Gravityforms along with User registration add-on and have a form which when submitted should change the role of the current user to a new role without any underlying conditions.
Using the gravity\forms docs https://docs.gravityforms.com/gform_user_updated/#1-update-user-role and trying this:
add_action( 'gform_user_updated_3', 'change_role', 10, 3 );
function change_role( $user_id, $feed, $entry, $user_pass ) {
global $current_user;
get_currentuserinfo();
$user_id = $current_user->ID;
echo $user_id;
if( ! $user_id ) {
return;
}
$user = new WP_User( $user_id );
$user->set_role( 'role' ); // update 'role' to the name of the desired role
}
But its not working! Does anyone have any idea why this is incorrect or any other modifications to the code?

Answer 1

There's a couple things I see with your code when comparing it to the Gravity Forms doc.
Here's your code with some added comments:
add_action( 'gform_user_updated_3', 'change_role', 10, 3 );
function change_role( $user_id, $feed, $entry, $user_pass ) {
global $current_user; // you probably don't need this
get_currentuserinfo(); // you probably don't need this
$user_id = $current_user->ID; // $user_id should already be a numeric value passed in to the function containing the logged in user's ID so you shouldn't need to do this. You're resetting the $user_id variable here to whatever is being pulled out of the get_currentuserinfo() function, and I'm guessing that's the problem
//I would get rid of this echo and if statement
echo $user_id;
if( ! $user_id ) {
return;
}
$user = new WP_User( $user_id );
$user->set_role( 'role' ); // the word "role" here needs to be the role name
}
I think you can simplify it some. Try this instead:
add_action( 'gform_user_updated_3', 'change_role', 10, 3 );
function change_role( $user_id, $feed, $entry, $user_pass ) {
$user = new WP_User( $user_id );
$user->set_role( 'new_role_name_here' ); // Add an existing role here to update the user too
}