Reply To: Front-end forms pro or no?

• aberkow

• December 23, 2016 at 1:14 am

@james – Thanks. I got it to work late yesterday. In the end, I used the following code. The area where I had to do a little digging was getting the field_group property assigned correctly. After that I set the post_id to 'new' in both files and I’m set.

Edit – changed the check on $post_id to 'new_post' to clear the form after each use.

function pre_save_request_form($post_id) {
        // check if there's a new request based on post id
        var_export($post_id);
        // 'new' vs 'new_post'
        if ($post_id != 'new_post') {
                return $post_id;
        }
        if (is_admin()) {
                return;
        }
        $post = array(
                // check to see if a 'draft' status can be used.
                'post_status' => 'draft',
                // make the title a date w/ timestamp.
                'post_title' => date("F j, Y, g:i a"),
                'post_type' => 'request_form'
        );

        // insert the posts
        $post_id = wp_insert_post($post);
        // return the new id

        return $post_id;
}
add_filter('acf/pre_save_post', 'pre_save_request_form');

/*
Enable a front end ACF form which will generate a new post on submit.
                */

 $fields = get_field_objects();
$fieldGroup;
// var_dump($fields);
foreach ($fields as $field) {
    $fieldGroup = $field['field_group'];
    // var_dump($field, $fieldGroup);
}
// var_dump($fieldGroup);
$options = array(
    'post_id' => 'new_post',
     // field groups has to be an array...
     'field_groups' => array($fieldGroup),
     'submit_value' => 'Start a request',
     'return' => home_url('thank-you')
);
acf_form($options);