Change field's value before saving in db. Options page.

• gregbialowas

• October 28, 2019 at 10:01 pm

Hello,

I’ve looked for the answer to the question in the title for last several hours testing various replies but none of them actually worked.

What I want to achieve
apply formatting to wysiwyg field BEFORE it is saved using this simple function:

function escape_chbx_input() {
	if( isset($_POST['acf']['my_wysiwyg_key']) ) {
		custom_php_function( $_POST['acf']['my_wysiwyg_key'] );
	}
}

What have I done so far
I have found two hooks that could probably work here but apparently none of them did:

add_filter( 'acf/save_post', 'escape_chbx_input', 5);
and
add_filter( 'acf/save_post', 'escape_chbx_input', 15);

plus
add_filter( 'acf/update_value/key=my_wysiwyg_key', 'escape_chbx_input', 15);

Can you help me out here?
Thank you!

• gregbialowas

• October 28, 2019 at 10:39 pm

I actually used WP’s native update_option in the hook acf/save_post.
And that worked.