Repeaterfield in ACF User Registration Form

• photosjob

• July 24, 2019 at 8:56 pm

Hi,

I created a Frontend User Registration Form that contains ACF-fields (ACF PRO 5). With all kinds of fields this works just fine, but I can’t get a repeater field to work.
I created a repeater-field with 3 sub-fields and they do show on the registration page (frontend) but I can’t get those values in the database.

I’m using ‘acf/save_post’ to create a dummy post, create a new user, update all user_meta (by using ‘update_user_meta’ to get all values into the right fields.

I use this code to get the data from the form into the user_meta:

<?php
// USER REGISTRATION - CUSTOM GROUP FOR USER Registration
function my_acf_save_user( $post_id ) {

  if( wp_is_post_revision( $post_id ) || is_admin() ) {
    return;
  }

  // get fields
  $sex = get_field('geslacht', $post_id);
  $initials = get_field('voorletters', $post_id);
  $first_name = get_field('voornaam', $post_id);
  $insertion = get_field('tussenvoegsel', $post_id);
  $last_name = get_field('achternaam', $post_id);
  $email = get_field('email', $post_id);
  $linkedin = get_field('linkedin', $post_id);
  $employer = get_field('naam_werkgever', $post_id);
  $postalcode = get_field('postcode_werkgever', $post_id);
  $houseNumber = get_field('huisnummer_werkgever', $post_id);
  $numberAddition = get_field('toevoeging_huisnummer_werkgever', $post_id);
  $street = get_field('straatnaam_werkgever', $post_id);
  $place = get_field('woonplaats_werkgever', $post_id);
  $province = get_field('provincie_werkgever', $post_id);

  $first_name2 = str_replace(' ', '-', strtolower($first_name));
  $insertion2 = str_replace(' ', '-', strtolower($insertion));
  $last_name2 = str_replace(' ', '-', strtolower($last_name));

  if( $insertion != '' ) {
    // create the user
    $user_id = wp_create_user( $first_name2 . "_" . $insertion2 . "_" . $last_name2, bin2hex(random_bytes(16)), $email );
  } else {
    // create the user
    $user_id = wp_create_user( $first_name2 . "_" . $last_name2, bin2hex(random_bytes(16)), $email );
  }

  update_user_meta( $user_id, 'geslacht', $sex );
  update_user_meta( $user_id, 'voorletters', $initials );
  update_user_meta( $user_id, 'voornaam', $first_name );
  update_user_meta( $user_id, 'tussenvoegsel', $insertion );
  update_user_meta( $user_id, 'achternaam', $last_name );
  update_user_meta( $user_id, 'email', $email );
  update_user_meta( $user_id, 'linkedin', $linkedin );
  update_user_meta( $user_id, 'naam_werkgever', $employer );
  update_user_meta( $user_id, 'postcode_werkgever', $postalcode );
  update_user_meta( $user_id, 'huisnummer_werkgever', $houseNumber );
  update_user_meta( $user_id, 'toevoeging_huisnummer_werkgever', $numberAddition );
  update_user_meta( $user_id, 'straatnaam_werkgever', $street );
  update_user_meta( $user_id, 'woonplaats_werkgever', $place );
  update_user_meta( $user_id, 'provincie_werkgever', $province );

  // delete the unused post
  wp_delete_post($post_id);

}
// run after ACF saves the $_POST['acf'] data
add_action('acf/save_post', 'my_acf_save_user', 20);

Can someone give me a help how to get the a repeater-field with 3 subfield and their values into the user_meta.
Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Kind regards,
Job

• John Huebner

• July 24, 2019 at 9:45 pm

What are the fields in the above code that are from the repeater?

Past that, your code can run into problems. You should be using update_field() https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/update_field/ and you should be using the field keys and not the field names as explained on this page. How to construct the correct $post_id value for a user is explained on this page https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/get_field/

With that said, inserting a repeater requires constructing an array of values

// array holding all of the rows of the repeater
$values = array(
  // a nested array for each row
  array(
    // field key => value pairs for this row
    'field_123456' => 'value of field',
  ),
);
// update field using field key
update_field('field_xyz543', $values, 'user_'.$user_id');