Creating entry with channel entries api, redirecting to empty view page

Question

I am on EE 2.11.2, and I am using the Channel Entries API to create a new channel entry after a user submits a form on the front-end. It saves the entry just fine, but when I redirect the user to the view template for that new entry, most of the time, the page is blank.

If I refresh the page, it displays the entry. Also, if I sleep() in PHP for a bit before redirecting, it seems to show the entry rather than the blank page more often.

Is there a way to get around this? Am I doing something wrong?

Answer 1

Did you try to set error reporting in EE preferences to show errors to everyone? Perhaps there is an error and you just don't see it.

If the blank page means no results, the most obvious is checking entry status. By default the enties published via channel form are set to Closed status (unless you specify other status explicitely and the user has access to that status).

Answer 2

Ifigured it out!

When creating the entry with the Channel Entries API, I was setting the entry_date value to be ee()->localize->now. After it saved, and got redirected within the same second, the view page was not returning the result because the channel entries query was checking for entries with an entry_date < the current timestamp. So It wasn't finding this entry saved in the same second as the query!

I fixed this by setting my entry_date to be ee()->localize->now - 1