Reply To: Can\'t get the name value to use $_POST

• Puur

• July 14, 2017 at 11:41 pm

I’ll try. But I’m repeating my self here. But maybe this will clarify.

This is my ACF form:

<div id="primary" class="content-area">
    <div id="content" class="site-content" role="main">
        <?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
            <?php acf_form(array(
                'post_id'       => 'new_post',
                'new_post'      => array(
                    'post_type'     => 'db_test',
                    'post_status'       => 'publish'
                ),
                'submit_value'      => 'Create a new event',
                // 'return' => '/wp-content/themes/MY_THEME/includes/new-employee.php'
            )); ?>
        <?php endwhile; ?>
    </div>
</div>

It gives me this HTML

<form id="acf-form" class="acf-form" action="" method="post">
	<div class="acf-fields acf-form-fields -top">
		<div id="Firstname" class="acf-field acf-field-text acf-field-5968834df2ac1 voornaam" style="width:40%;" data-name="voornaam" data-type="text" data-key="field_5968834df2ac1" data-width="40">
			<div class="acf-label">
				<label for="acf-field_5968834df2ac1">Voornaam</label>
			</div>
			<div class="acf-input">
				<div class="acf-input-wrap"><input type="text" id="acf-field_5968834df2ac1" class="" name="acf[field_5968834df2ac1]" value="" placeholder="" /></div>	</div>
			</div>
		</div>
	<div class="acf-form-submit">
		<input type="submit" class="acf-button button button-primary button-large" value="Create a new event" />			<span class="acf-spinner"></span>			
	</div>
</form>

All I want is when you click on submit it writes the entry to the WP database and returns the value of this acf[field_5968834df2ac1] field using an echo.

Im trying to do that using this code:

<?php
    $FirstName = $_POST['acf']['field_5968834df2ac1'];
    echo 'data' . $FirstName; ?>

But that doesn’t give me any results. So my question was/is how do I get the value of this field when I clicked on submit and the page reloads.

Here is my whole code:

<?php acf_form_head(); ?>
<?php /* Template name: Nieuwe Collega's */ get_header(); ?>
<?php session_start();
$_SESSION['foo'] = $_POST['acf']['field_5968834df2ac1'];
?>

<div id="primary" class="content-area">
    <div id="content" class="site-content" role="main">
        <?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
            <?php acf_form(array(
                'post_id'       => 'new_post',
                'new_post'      => array(
                    'post_type'     => 'db_test',
                    'post_status'       => 'publish'
                ),
                'submit_value'      => 'Create a new event',
                // 'return' => '/wp-content/themes/intranetpuur/includes/new-employee.php'
            )); ?>
        <?php endwhile; ?>
    </div>
</div>
<?php
    $FirstName = $_POST['acf']['field_5968834df2ac1'];
    echo 'data' . $FirstName;
    echo $_SESSION['foo'];
 ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>