publish_future_post action not working

[jkoon]

The API Action Reference for publish_future_post says "Runs when a future post or page is published. Action function arguments: post ID."

However this action does not fire when a post goes from scheduled to published.

I first noticed this on a 3.4.2 install however I have confirmed this in 3.5.1 as well.

[SergeyBiryukov]

Could you provide the steps to reproduce the issue on a clean install?

[jkoon]

1) Add the following to the functions.php file:

add_action ('publish_future_post', 'test_action');

function test_action () {
	global $post;	
	$id = $post->ID;
	update_post_meta($post->ID, 'hook_fired', 'true');
}

2) Schedule a post to be published in the future.

3) Review the custom fields data once post has published.

Expected Results: A custom field named hook_fired added to the post with the value of true

Actual Results: No custom fields added to the post

[helen]

What happens if you use the $post_id function arg noted in the reference instead of doing global $post? So:

function test_action ( $post_id ) {
	update_post_meta( $post_id, 'hook_fired', 'true' );
}

[nacin]

Yeah, the global $post isn't set up on cron, nor should it be.

The publish_future_post passes a post ID, as stated in the reference (and in the initial description of the ticket).