Save ACF values to user profile

• guyspiros

• December 27, 2016 at 9:17 pm

Hi,

I’ve created a front-end questionnaire using nested repeater fields (question item with a test field for the question and test fields nested repeater for the available answers), inside a custom page template.

Now I got a request to save each question and its answer to the user profile, in order to be able to check later what answers he gave.

Do I need to rebuild this repeater in the user profile or is there a way to save it from the current location?

• John Huebner

• December 28, 2016 at 2:29 am

You need to get the current user’s ID and then specify the “post ID” to save the values to when calling acf_form(). The post ID will be "user_{$user_id}" See the post_id option for acf_form() https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/acf_form/

• guyspiros

• December 29, 2016 at 1:18 am

I dodn’t even think it could be that simple.
thanks!

made a new group of radio button fields and submitted with

 <?php
                            $options = array(
                                'post_id' => 'user_'.$current_user->ID,
                                'field_groups' => array(232),
                                'form' => true,
                                'return' => add_query_arg( 'updated', 'true', get_permalink() ),
                                'html_before_fields' => '',
                                'html_after_fields' => '',
                                'submit_value' => 'Update'
                            );

                            acf_form( $options );
                            ?>

now my only problem is that I need to make some of the radio buttons to have the same value inside the same group.
is it possible?

• John Huebner

• December 29, 2016 at 2:22 am

I’m not sure I understand your follow up question. Can you explain further?

• guyspiros

• December 29, 2016 at 2:28 am

the answers in this form, are based on radio buttons i.e.
yes : YES
no : NO
hellno : Hell No

only I use numbers for the values.
for some reason, I can’t have two buttons with the same value.
i.e.
2 : YES
1 : No
1 : Hell No

The reason I need it is to sum all the values in order to see if the user is qualified. in some questions, I have two answers that have the same score (I don’t care for example if he says “no” or “hell no”, but I do need to give him the chance to say it.

hope I made it clearer 🙂

• John Huebner

• December 29, 2016 at 2:39 am

There isn’t any way to do this with ACF because of the way that ACF stores the values and labels for the radio buttons. You would need to have a different value for every choice.

You could have choices like

1 : No
1.0 : Hell No
1.00 : Are you nuts?

These values would be stored as strings and you could convert them to integers when getting the values

$value = intval(get_field('radio_field'));