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  • It’s possible to add some captcha to front end form ?

  • Hi @trasek

    I assume so. I have not worked with captcha before, but ACF does allow you to create a custom field type.

    You could create a new field type which renders out a captcha and handles the $_POST data.

    Here’s a tutorial to get you started:
    http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/tutorials/creating-a-new-field-type/

    Thanks
    E

  • Ok i display the recaptcha but how i can get $_POST object and how i can check it’s right ? I know the function of reCaptcha to do that, but in what function i need to do that and how i can get from one function to another, send this post ?

  • Hi @trasek

    you can use the update_value function to run the validation.
    The only issue is that currently, ACF does not have any PHP validation functions!

    This will be part of v5, so for now, I’m not sure how you will prevent the saving.. Perhaps remove all $_POST[‘fields’] data?

    I’m not too sure on this one.

    Thanks
    E

  • I add this to my function.php where it’s function to add post.

  • I nearly have a Captcha working for front end forms using the Captcha plugin from http://bestwebsoft.com/plugin/ and based on code by Jake at http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/66376/advanced-custom-fields-validation

    In the form template add:

    
if( function_exists( 'cptch_display_captcha_custom' ) ) {
    $html_after_fields .= '<div id="directory-footer" style="" class="field required"><label for="cptch_number">Anti-spam verification <span class="required">*</span></label>';
    $html_after_fields .= "<input type='hidden' name='cntctfrm_contact_action' value='true' />"; 
    $html_after_fields .= cptch_display_captcha_custom();
    $html_after_fields .= "</div>";
}

    Then in your functions.php or wherever you handle your custom code something like:

    
class found_directory_frontend {
    public $submitted_fields = '';
    public $validation_errors = '';

    public function __construct() {
        add_filter('acf/pre_save_post', array($this, 'pre_save_post'));
        add_action('acf/save_post', array($this, 'custom_handle_error'), 1);
        ... any other handlers
    }

    function acf_create_fields($fields, $post_id) {
        foreach ($fields as &$field) {
            if ( array_key_exists($field['name'], $this->submitted_fields) )
                $field['value'] = $this->submitted_fields[$field['name']];
        }
        return $fields;
    }

    function add_error() {
        echo '<div id="message" class="error">';
        foreach ( $this->validation_errors as $key => $error ) {
            echo '<p class="' . $key . '">' . $error . '</p>';
        }
        echo '</div>';
    }
    
    function custom_handle_error($post_id) {
        if ('error' == $post_id) {
            unset($_POST['return']);
        }
    }
    
    function pre_save_post($post_id) {
        
        if (empty($_POST['fields']) || !is_array($_POST['fields'])){
            $this->validation_errors['empty'] = "One or more required fields have not been completed";
        } else {
            foreach($_POST['fields'] as $k => $v) {
                // get field
                $f = apply_filters('acf/load_field', false, $k );
                $f['value'] = $v;
                $this->submitted_fields[$f['name']] = $f;
            }
            $this->submitted_fields['post_title'] = $_POST['post_title'];
        }
        
        if( function_exists( 'cptch_check_custom_form' ) && cptch_check_custom_form() !== true ) {
            $this->validation_errors['empty'] = "Please complete the Anti-spam verification.";
        }
        
        if ($this->validation_errors) {
            // Output the messges area on the form
            add_filter( 'acf/get_post_id', array($this, 'add_error') );
            
            // Turn the post_id into an error
            $post_id = 'error';
            
            // Add submitted values to fields
            add_action('acf/create_fields', array($this, 'acf_create_fields'), 10, 2 );
            
            return $post_id;
        }
        ... otherwise carry on with whatever it is your going to do
    }
}

    The Captcha works perfectly and the error message displays fine. However the issue is the server side validation then re-loading the form with the POSTed values. All standard values load fine thanks to the code above but I have several image fields and two taxonomy fields in my form and these lose their values. Does anyone have any idea how to load those? If so then we have a working front end form Captcha :o)

  • Hi Elliot,
    any update on this?
    Is there any easy way to add captcha to front end form in v5?

  • I’m waiting too.

  • yep, forms spamming is a real pain in the ass 🙁

    If someone succeed to put a captcha or another solution to avoid spams I think a lot of us would be happy 🙂

    I’ve tried the solution above ( from slightlydifferent ), but sadly I can’t make it functionnal.

  • in current project we used gravity forms as it has support for recaptcha/nocaptcha, but it would be great to be able to use acf as we’re using it anyway in the backend

  • I had just created an add-on for ACF v5 that allows reCAPTCHA on frontend forms.

    Check it out at https://github.com/irvinlim/acf-recaptcha, do let me know if you encounter any issues!

  • great plugin, one issue found – https://wordpress.org/support/topic/translation-issue-30?replies=1#post-7259485

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