Reply To: Frontend form – post via ajax?

• rsrc1147

• June 13, 2016 at 10:30 pm

Just to update as I realised I never finished this – to get past the problem of it returning the url, I added an extra hook for after ACF_Head had saved which wrote out a new form with the new post_id which I can replace the existing one with. That way I can resave the form again without creating another new entry.

So my final save code looks like this:

function my_pre_save_post($post_id) {
	if( $post_id == 'new_data' ) {
	    $post = array(
	        'post_status'  => 'publish' ,
	        'post_type'  => 'saved_data',
	    );
	    $post_id = wp_insert_post($post); 
	}
	return $post_id;
}

function my_acf_save_post( $post_id )
{
	acf_form(array(
		'post_id'		=> $post_id,
		'field_groups' => array(180)
	));
	exit();
    
}

add_filter( 'acf/pre_save_post', 'my_pre_save_post' );
add_action( 'wp_ajax_save_app_data', 'acf_form_head' );
add_action( 'wp_ajax_nopriv_save_app_data', 'acf_form_head' );
add_action( 'acf/save_post', 'my_acf_save_post', 20 );

If anyone needs any help with this let me know but I also realise this might not be the most efficient way to achieve an AJAX save…