Reply To: How to use ACF in a plugins admin page

• sKuijers

• October 7, 2013 at 5:44 am

@souvarian and @elliot: thanks for the input.

It needs some more thorough testing but I think I have it working now. Thanks to you both.

As I have registered my field_groups using the ACF-UI, I am not using the register_field_group function. That way I don’t have the problem with the location.

How I use these funtions:
– on hook ‘admin_init’ I call

/* hooked on admin_init */
public function add_afc_head() {
       if (in_array(hbd_functions::get_page_by_url(), hbd_settings::$plugin_page_names)) {
          hbd_debug::write_log('acf_form_head called');
          acf_form_head();
       }
   }

– on hook ‘admin_menu’ I build by menu using add_menu_page();
– In the callback of that function I do these actions:
do_action(‘acf/input/admin_head’);
do_action(‘acf/input/admin_enqueue_scripts’);
– Then render my page.
– In my page I call acf_form like this:

$options = array(
   'post_id' => hbd_settings::AFC_POST_TOKEN, // post to save to
   'field_groups' => array(hbd_settings::AFC_FORM_ID), // field group id
   'form' => true, 
   'form_attributes' => array(
        'id' => 'design-fotos',
        'action' => '',
        'method' => 'post'
   ),
   'return' => add_query_arg( 'updated', 'true', (get_admin_url() . 'admin.php?page=s-advanced-search') ), // return url
   'submit_value' => 'Opslaan', 
   'updated_message' => 'Afbeeldingvelden opgeslagen', 
);

acf_form($options);

I hope this solves your question as well souverian. If it doesn’t open a new thread and let me know. I’ll look into it as well.

As long as further debugging does not surface any issues; topic solved!

Thanks for the input,

sKuijers