ACF form in front end based in ACF field

• felipeost

• June 19, 2015 at 11:01 am

Excuse my English, I will try to be as clear as possible

I have tried to develop a routine to create form pages, something like a creator of forms systems.

Thus, the first need that I have identified is to have a standard form with the required fields to position a new page.

Thus, the first need that I have identified is to have a standard form with the required fields to position a new page

I created a page template and assigns a form with fields (page_customtype, page_idform, page_idpost)

Theoretically, these are the necessary information to position a form on a page on the front end

But when I run the code below, the form is not displayed

$idform = get_field('page_idform');

	if ($idform!=null){
	
		acf_form( array(
				'post_id'		=> 'new_post_emp',
				'field_groups'	=> array( $idform ),
				'return' => add_query_arg( 'updated', 'true',   "#" ),
			));
	}

I imagine that this takes place because the order of script execution, but we would have to get around this?

• felipeost

• June 20, 2015 at 4:48 am

Oh dear, I’m a dumb!

My problem was that the reference ID was wrong, so would never work. But not to be so ugly, I share my finding.

The code to create a form based on another is:

Front End

<?php 	
$customtype = get_field('page_customtype'); 		
$idform = get_field('page_idform');
   $args = array(
           'post_id'		=> 'newpost_'.$customtype ,
           'field_groups'	=> array( $idform ),
           'return' => add_query_arg( 'updated', 'true',   "#" ),
   );
acf_form( $args ); 
?>

And the part that makes me proud is how to treat the data to insert without having to have the reference (KeyField) of each field:

functions.php

function my_pre_save_post( $post_id ) {
	
		$customtype = explode('_' , $post_id );

		$post = array(
					'post_status'	=> 'Publish',
					'post_type'		=> $customtype[1],
				);	

		$post_id = wp_insert_post( $post ); 

		while (list($key, $value) = each($_POST['acf'])) {

			$var = $var . "Key: $key; Value: $value<br />\n";
			$namefield =  get_field_object($key);
				
			add_post_meta ($post_id, $namefield['name'] , $value, true);
		}

	}
	add_filter('acf/pre_save_post' , 'my_pre_save_post', 10, 1 );

Thus a job that took hours (depending on the number of forms) only takes a few minutes.

I hope I can help in any way