Pass the Post ID to another page

• Jason

• October 9, 2013 at 5:20 pm

I am using repeater fields and a mail form (tectite.com) to allow my client to easily add new forms with a specific javascript feature (the reason I don’t just use gravity forms or something similar). This is how it works:

I created a custom post type that allows my client to create a new form with specific custom fields. When the form is submitted, I use another page with a template to style the email before it is sent on. Everything is working but what I need to do is be able to set which page id is being set in the template that styles the email. I am trying to avoid creating multiple templates with each custom post page id. Is it possible to pass a variable from the custom post type page to the template page?

For example, I would have something like this:
<?php the_sub_field('choice_name', $mypostid); ?>
that would turn into something like this once the variable is passed through:
<?php the_sub_field('choice_name', 1234); ?>

I am also wanting to avoid using the Options plugin as I would have to update each time the client wanted to make a new form.

• Elliot

• October 11, 2013 at 12:16 pm

Hi @keygrip

Yes, the get_field function contains a second parameter for $post_id.

Please not you cant load a sub field value, you will need to load the repeater, then loop through it’s data.

This is all explained in this article:
http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/how-to/how-to-get-values-from-another-page/

• Jason

• October 11, 2013 at 2:08 pm

Thanks, Elliot.

My issue is that I am wanting to create multiple forms but use only one template to style the form, so what I want to do is pass the post id from multiple forms to the one template.

So lets say I have 5 different forms, when the user hits submit, I need to send the post id of that specific form over the one style template page (I am trying to avoid creating multiple style templates).

I can easily pull over the post id to the style template but I am not sure how (or if it is possible) to substitute the post id:

If I have this in the form:
<input name="Name" type="text" value="<?php the_sub_field('name'); ?>" />
I then pull in this field in the style template by using:
$Name

I can do something similar with the post ID and naming it $post_id, I’m just not sure how (or if) I can then us that in the repeater below to pull in the specific post ID

<?php if(get_field('choice_menu', '$post_id'));?>
     <?php while(has_sub_field('choice_menu', '$post_id'));?>

Is it possible? Does that make sense in what I am trying to do?

• Jason

• October 12, 2013 at 2:11 am

Ok, I got this to work. My code was actually working, I just was not able to pull in the parameter the way I originally wanted (or thought that I could). What I did was pass the Post ID parameter through the URL and then pull that parameter into my style template. Here is what I did in case it helps anyone in the future:

I passed the Post ID into the url (I.E. http://www.mysite.com/processform/?postid=1234).

I added this to my style template:

<?php 
	$url = "http://$_SERVER[HTTP_HOST]$_SERVER[REQUEST_URI]" ;
	$parts = parse_url($url);
	parse_str($parts['query'], $query);
	$mypostid = $query['postid'];
?>

and this is how my repeater fields looked:

 <?php if(get_field('choice_menu', $mypostid)): $i = 0;?>
   <?php while(has_sub_field('choice_menu', $mypostid)): $i++;?>     
     <p><?php the_sub_field('choice_name'); ?> : $check<?php echo $i; ?></p>  
   <?php endwhile; ?>	 
 <?php endif; ?>