Reply To: Admin Aproval

• James

• May 31, 2016 at 4:57 pm

Hi @manu

I’ve attached an image of a field group as an example. With that field group, I created a front end form like this:

acf_form(array(
    'post_id' => 'user_99',
    'fields' => array('field_574d2ee6b5a16'),
));

Where “99” is the ID of a user you want to update (you can dynamically generate it, of course). After that, I use this function in my functions.php to check if an admin approved the submitted data or not:

add_action('acf/save_post', 'example_save_temporary_user_data', 20);
function example_save_temporary_user_data( $post_id )
{
    // The approval should be on the back end only;
    if( !is_admin() )
        return;
    
    // Check if an admin approve it or not
    if( get_field('approve_example_text', $post_id) ){
        
        //get the temporary data
        $temporary_data = get_field('example_text', $post_id);
        
        // $post_id contains "user_99" so $user_id should "99"
        $user_id = str_replace('user_', '', $post_id);
        
        // update the user data (in this case the first name)
        update_user_meta( $user_id, 'first_name', $temporary_data );
    }
}

You can also use the acf/load_value field to always make the true/false field unchecked.

I hope this makes sense 🙂

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