I wish to create a frontend form that submits images to a post for a competition.
The images can then all be viewed in a gallery perhaps.
This is what I want to do, just not sure the best way to do this.
I have set up a front end form, just not sure how to save this, I don’t want to save each submission as a new post, so how would I save the form submissions to a single post?
Hello there,
Thanks for getting in touch!
You can assign a particular post id to the form through the ‘post_id’ parameter like so:
<?php acf_form(array(
'post_id' => 123,
'post_title' => false,
'submit_value' => 'Update the post!'
)); ?>
I hope this info helps. Thank you.
Yes I was thinking of doing something like that, however each submission/post of the form, needs to create a new row of fields within the post, and not just update the same each time if that makes sense.
Hi @mikey2004
In this case, you can grab individual field values from the $_POST data like so:
$field_value_1 = $_POST['acf']['field_xxxxxxxxxxx'];
In this example, we are making use of field key to target a certain field and you can then add a new row of data to an existing repeater by making use of the following function: https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/add_row/
I recommend using field keys in the above function since this allows ACF to correctly find the field if no existing value has been saved.
Thank you.
This sounds great, and a good way to do what I want to create.
How would I combine all this, where would the code about submitting to a new row on a field be added via the form?
Hi there,
You can hook into the acf/save_post hook that is called when the form is submitted and create this logic.
Please take a look at the examples on this page: https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/acf-save_post/
I hope this info helps.
