At this point I can create Form_Fields add them to a custom Post Type, list them on a custom Page Template and let signed_in users add posts to this custom Post Type.
It’s all working great, all the custom fields are getting filled and show up in the back-end but is there a way to manipulate some fields just a sec. before adding them to the database?
What I really want is people willing out the forms and when they press Publish I would like to create the Post Title based on the option they have selected.
So pick a 5 selections – combine them and make a title out of them.
All the becoming stuff in PHP I can do but how do you get the form-data before saving?
Hi @shmoo
Thanks for the post.
You can get the form data by hooking into the acf/pre_save_post filter and obtain the $_POST data.
Here is an example of how this would look:
<?php
function my_pre_save_post( $post_id ) {
// check if this is to be a new post
if( $post_id != 'new' ) {
return $post_id
}
// Create a new post
$post = array(
'post_status' => 'draft' ,
'post_title' => $_POST['acf']['field_53bb9a2018722'] ,
'post_type' => 'post' ,
);
// insert the post
$post_id = wp_insert_post( $post );
// return the new ID
return $post_id;
}
add_filter('acf/pre_save_post' , 'my_pre_save_post', 10, 1 );
?>
