Is there a trick to get acf/validate_save_post to work on clone fields?
My code works when the fields are in the primary field group, Exhibition Fields, but when I pull those fields out and create a separate Dates field group which is then cloned into the Exhibition Fields group it doesn’t create an error on validation and won’t save any new value:
add_action('acf/validate_save_post', 'msfa_acf_validate_save_post', 10, 0);
function msfa_acf_validate_save_post() {
$start = $_POST['acf']['field_5d49b2ff396b6'];
$start = new DateTime($start);
$end = $_POST['acf']['field_5d49b34a396b7'];
$end = new DateTime($end);
// check custom $_POST data
if ($start > $end) {
acf_add_validation_error('acf[field_5d49b34a396b7]', 'End Date should be later than Start Date');
}
}
This is because when a field is cloned its field key is altered. The new key will likely be the a concatenation of the clone field’s key and the original field key. The $_POST indexes to the field may further be altered if this also is a sub field of a repeater, group or flex field.
Here is how I would work around this issue with the star field as an example. This will work for both cloned and non-cloned versions of the same field.
$field_key = 'field_5d49b2ff396b6';
foreach ($_POST['acf'] as $key => $value) {
if (substr($key, -strlen($field_key)) === $field_key) {
$start = new DateTime($value);
break;
}
}
If I was going to do this a lot then I’d probably build a function that searches the input to find the right value.
Not quite working. The original validates or throws the error but not the clone; tried to with the acf_add_validation_error function using acf[field_5d5b156507abc][field_5d5b156507abc_field_5d49b34a396b7] which is how it seems to be indexing but no luck.
