Upon Plugin Activation Save Default Settings

[DevinWalker]

We are using CMB2 to create a tabbed plugin admin panel. When a new user installs and activates the plugin they have to manually save the options before they are stored in the database. Do you know of a quick way to save default values so they are immediately available post installation?

[DevinWalker]

LMK if this issue is more appropriate in CMB2 core

[dustyf]

You should be able to use the register_activation_hook function (http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_activation_hook) to perform actions on the activation of your plugin. Run update_option here and save values under the meta keys you use for your fields and they will be available once the plugin is activated.

[DevinWalker]

I figured as much, the issue though is how to exactly do this... I'm guessing two foreach loops like so:

// Populate some default values
    $give_settings = new Give_Plugin_Settings();
    foreach ( $give_settings->give_settings( null ) as $tab => $settings ) {

        foreach ( $settings as $option ) {

            if ( isset( $option['default'] ) ) {

                $options[ $option['id'] ] = $option['default'];
            }

        }

    }

    update_option( 'give_settings', array_merge( $give_options, $options ) );

I'm having trouble getting to work though...

[jtsternberg]

This question is quite a bit out of scope for this project. Also, your example assumes we know what Give_Plugin_Settings is, what give_settings outputs, where $give_options is coming from and what hook this is happening on.

[DevinWalker]

I agree it's a bit of a strange issue and I haven't provided too much context. Let me poke around a bit more on this...