I’ve inserted acf_form() within another form in front-end, but when clicking on submit button the data inserted in acf_form are not saved.
This is the full code:
<?php acf_form_head(); ?>
<?php
get_header();
{
$post_id = ($_GET['i']);
$post_info = get_post($post_id);
{?>
<form id="pin-edit-form">
<h1>TITLE</h1>
<?php
echo pinc_wp_editor('pin-title', ($post_info->post_title));
?>
<h1> DESCRIPTION</h1>
<?php
echo pinc_wp_editor('pin-content', ($post_info->post_content));
?>
<h1> ACF NEW FIELD</h1>
<?php acf_form(array(
'post_id' => $post_id,
'form' => false
));
?>
<input id="pid" type="hidden" value="<?php echo $post_id; ?>" />
<input type="submit" value="submit" />
</form>
<?php }
}?>
<?php
get_footer();
?>
Can anybody help me?
Thank you!
I set 'form' => false because the form is inserted within an existing form and there is already a submit button. But maybe I’m missing something else?
Hi @gival146
When you set 'form' => false, ACF won’t handle the form submission anymore, so you need to process the data yourself.
You can update the custom field by using the update_field() function. To learn more about it, kindly check this page:https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/update_field/. Also, please don’t forget to use the field key instead of the field name for the selector.
If you were using a plugin to add the existing form, then you need to execute the update_field() function when the plugin is saving the submitted data. In this case, could you please ask the plugin author how to execute custom code when it’s saving the form?
I hope this helps 🙂
