Hello,
i’ve an question: if i use the profile_update hook in combination with acf, the fields updating on the backend, but not in the frontend form. Any ideas?
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function custom_user_update( $user_id, $previous_data )
{
update_user_meta( $user_id, 'network_public', false);
}
add_action( 'profile_update', 'custom_user_update', 10, 2 );
Any ideas how i can use this in a frontend form (with user_$id?)? Just test it out with acf/save_post, but is not working for me.
AND an simple other question (for sure): How can i check, if a field exists(!)? Like “has_field” or some else…
Sorry for my bad english!
Greetings.
acf/save_posts is run on any page where custom field are shown and only when there are acf fields shown and submitted.
If acf/save_post is not running then there are not acf fields being submitted.
when ACF passes the $post_id value to your filter it will be in the form
"user_{$user_id}"
in order to use standard WP function you will need to extract the user ID
function whatever_your_function_name_is($post_id) {
// see if the post ID is for a user
if (strpos($post_id, 'user_') !== 0) {
// string does not start with user_
// bail
return;
}
$user_id = intval(substr($post_id, 5));
// your code to update user here
}
So if i use (is it correct?) it should work?
function 123_update_user( $post_id )
{
if (strpos($post_id, 'user_') !== 0)
return;
$user_id = intval(substr($post_id, 5));
update_user_meta( $user_id, 'network_public', false);
}
add_action( 'acf/save_post', '123_update_user', 5 );
Still not working. I use acf_form() to update a user profile in frontend…
acf_form_head() is set and my form looks like:
$groups = array( 1, 2, 3, 4 );
acf_form(array(
'post_id' => 'user_' . get_current_user_id(),
'field_groups' => $groups,
));
Fields are saving perfect, but field “network_public” does not update. field network_public is an field in a field_group in the acf_form.
The script for set network_public to false, is the same as above (posted recently from me).
Add the following to the top of your function to test
die('My filter is running');
try to save the page and see if it appears. Remove the code as soon as it does.
Possible corrective actions
1) Set the priority for your action > 10
2) Make sure you followed all of the steps for using front end forms https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/acf_form/
— did you include acf_form_head() before get_header()
check your theme, make sure it includes both wp_head() and wp_footer() calls
1) Set the priority for your action > 10
This helped me! 🙂 But now i cant check, if a field is updated or not, or?
so the problem was that ACF was making changes to the field after you did.
If you need to look for updates then you may need to have 2 actions, one that runs before ACF updates and one that runs after ACF updates.
The other alternative is, instead of updating the post meta, to alter $_POST['acf']['YOUR FIELD KEY'] with the value you want for "network_public"
You’re awesome John! Thank you! Work like a charm!
