Registering new user with acf

• maijavilkina

• January 22, 2014 at 1:24 am

Hi!

First off.. huge fan of your work. Huuuge.

I am trying to make a user registration / profile form by acf. It works to update information for existing users, but new users do not register. Whyyyy….

Here is the form code:

if ( is_user_logged_in == true ) : 
    global $current_user;
    $user_id = 'user_'.$current_user->ID;
else : $user_id = 'new';
endif;
 		
$args = array(
    'post_id' => $user_id,
    'field_groups' => array( 1770 )
);
 
acf_form( $args ); 

Here is the presave code:

function my_pre_save_user( $post_id )
{
    // check if this is to be a new post
    if( $post_id != 'new' )
    {
        return $post_id;
    }
 
 //prepare basic user info
 
 $password = wp_hash_password($_POST['fields']['field_52de6a0b2b106']);
 $username = $_POST['fields']['field_52de69e92b104'];
 $email = $_POST['fields']['field_52de69f72b105'];
 
 //register user
 
 $user_id = wp_create_user( $username, $password, $email );
 
 //update other user info
    
 wp_update_user( array(
    	'ID' => $user_id,
        'first_name'  => $_POST['fields']['field_52de713ca3b92'],
        'last_name'  => $_POST['fields']['field_52de7149a3b93'],
        'display_name'  => $_POST['fields']['field_52de713ca3b92'] . $_POST['fields']['field_52de7149a3b93']
    ));  
 	
 //update user meta fields
 	
	update_user_meta($user_id, 'user_address', $_POST['fields']['field_52de6a292b108'] );
	update_user_meta($user_id, 'user_telephone', $_POST['fields']['field_52de6a1c2b107'] );  
	
// return id of the new user

	return $user_id;

}
 
add_filter('acf/pre_save_post' , 'my_pre_save_user' );

I must be missing something obvious.

• Elliot

• January 22, 2014 at 11:10 am

Hi @maijavilkina

Your code looks good, so there must be a logic or syntax error in your filter.

Can you please go through your code an debug it line by line like so:

<?php 

echo '<pre>';
	print_r(  $password );
echo '</pre>';
die;
 ?>

This will display the given variable and visually prove that your data is correct and that the code runs to this line successfuly

• danielpataki

• January 24, 2014 at 9:47 pm

Hi @maijavilkina,

I’m not definite about this but are you sure the user’s are not being created? I only ask because I think that when using the wp_create_user() function you need to pass it the plain text password, no need to create a hash. If I am right, the user is created but instead of ‘password’ being the password it is actually the has of that: ‘Juwufbfuahduhaf209r32’.

Also, you might want to consider using wp_insert_user() you can pass the first name, last name and display name to that which means you don’t need to create and separately update the user 🙂

I’m not sure either of these have anything to do with your issue, but the first one might 🙂 The user should still be created though!

Daniel