ACF PRO can't get post_title value

• David92

• October 22, 2014 at 3:57 am

I tried to create a new post using front end form, everything work exempt that I can’t get post title field value or post content field value 🙁
here is my code in the template page file:

function add_person( $post_id )
{
// check if this is to be a new post
if( $post_id != ‘new’ )
{
return $post_id;
}
var_dump($POST);

// Create a new post
$post = array(
‘post_status’ => ‘publish’ ,
‘post_type’ => ‘company’ ,
‘post_title’ => $_POST[‘acf’][“acf[_post_title]”],
‘post_content’ => $_POST[‘acf’][“acf[_post_content]”]
);

// insert the post
$post_id = wp_insert_post( $post );

// update $_POST[‘return’]
$_POST[‘return’] = add_query_arg( array(‘post_id’ => $post_id), $_POST[‘return’] );
// return the new ID
return $post_id;

}

add_filter(‘acf/pre_save_post’ , ‘add_person’ );
acf_form_head();
———————————
<?php

$args = array(
‘post_id’ => ‘new’,
‘field_groups’ => array(24),
‘post_title’ => true,
‘post_content’ => true
);

acf_form( $args );

?>

when I vardump the $POST variable I get NULL

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Also I didn’t understand how to utilise functions like “function add_person( $post_id ) » in function.php how to add several functions like this one ?
ex: – function add_person( $post_id )
– function add_company( $post_id )
– function add_product( $post_id )
and how to setup my template files so they know which function they have to use according to the post type they are supposed to create ?

Thank you very much for your help

• David92

• October 23, 2014 at 12:38 am

up

• David Crabill

• October 23, 2014 at 7:24 am

I’ve also noticed that ACF support has been less reliable in the last few months. It’s possible that Elliot has received a sudden influx of users since the launch of ACF 5 and figuring out how to adapt. Fortunately, he’s still pushing out new features.

I’m not sure if this will completely answer your questions, but here’s a start. Here’s how I think you need to setup your function call:

acf_form( array(
	'post_id' => 'new_post',
	'new_post' => array(
		'post_type' => 'company',
		'post_status' => 'publish',
	),
	'field_groups' => array(24),
	'post_title' => true,
	'post_content' => true,
) );

You’d call that in your template file with acf_form_head called at the top (above get_header). No need to mess with actions or filters in your functions.php file unless you want to do further customization.