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…
