Front-end posting and user registration in one form

• sabrinazeidan

• January 15, 2015 at 9:57 am

First of all I want to thank Elliot for this awesome plugin and all devs on this forum for the plenty answers I found here and used in my work. But for now I ran into problem I can’t resolve. Please give an advice.
I need two forms in one with two actions. Guest creates post through form and register himself.
I got two groups of ACF “Company representative registration” with 2 fields: email(which is login too) and password and “Company description”.

I tried to combine this thread for creating user with existing form for creating post, but could not get it work together.

I guess I need smth like, but how?

if ( ! is_user_logged_in() ) {
        if ( email_exists( $author_email ) ) {
            // email has an account
            require_once(ABSPATH . WPINC . '/ms-functions.php');
            $userid = get_user_id_from_string( $author_email );
        }
        else {
            // create an account with acf_form #1
            
            ) ;
            wp_set_password($last_name, $user_id);
        }
    }
    else {
        $user_id = get_current_user_id();
    }

    // create custom post type "company" with acf_form #2
    
   }

    //SAVE THE POST
    $pid = wp_insert_post($new_post, true);

    
   //POST THE POST YO
   do_action('wp_insert_post', 'wp_insert_post');

and just 1 button for both actions.

• James

• April 15, 2016 at 7:02 pm

Hi @sabrinaze,

Thanks for the post.

I believe the logic to check if the email has an account should be added to your template where you are calling the acf_form() function.

You can then leave the wp_insert_post() action to the acf/pre_save_post so that the post data can be added to the database once the user passed the validation.