Saving data to ACFs using AJAX POST

• codeSpecter

• September 27, 2020 at 11:48 am

Hello,

I created a front-end form that allows a user to enter data to create a new flight log entry. I’m using AJAX to create the post. While the post is created and shows the title and content, I can’t get the data to save to the Advanced Custom Fields. I’ve registered the field groups and I’m using the field keys with update_field(). I’m not certain what I’m overlooking. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

createLogEntry(e){
var departure_field = $(“.new-flight-departure”).val();
var arrival_field = $(“.new-flight-arrival”).val();
var title = (date + ‘ ‘ + departure_field + ‘ ‘ + arrival_field);
var content = $(“.new-flight-text”).val();

$.ajax({
beforeSend: (xhr) => {
xhr.setRequestHeader(‘X-WP-NONCE’, flightData.nonce);
},
url: flightData.root_url + ‘/wp-json/wp/v2/flight/’,
type: ‘POST’,
data: {
action: ‘submit_log_entry’,
title: title,
departure_field: departure_field, //Advanced Custom Field
arrival_field: arrival_field, //Advanced Custom Field
content: content
},
success: (response) => {
console.log(“Congrats”);
console.log(response);
alert(‘Post has been saved.’);
},
error: (response) => {
console.log(“Sorry”);
console.log(response);
}
});
}

function submit_log_entry() {

$title = $_POST[‘title’];
$content = $_POST[‘content’];
$departure = $_POST[‘departure_field’];
$arrival = $_POST[‘arrival-field’];

$post_data = array(
‘post_title’ => $title,
‘post_content’ => $content,
‘post_type’ => ‘post’,
‘post_status’ => ‘publish’
);

$post_id = wp_insert_post($post_data);

//Update departure field
$field_key = ‘field_5ecb28b30812a’;
update_field($field_key, $departure ,$post_id);

//Update arrival field
$field_key = ‘field_5ecc33eb92cf4’;
update_field($field_key, $arrival ,$post_id);

die();
}

add_action( ‘wp_ajax_nopriv_submit_log_entry’, ‘submit_log_entry’ );
add_action( ‘wp_ajax_submit_log_entry’,’submit_log_entry’ );

• joshangehr

• September 29, 2020 at 1:30 am

On first glance, it looks like $arrival = $_POST['arrival-field']; is different than what’s being sent in the data object (arrival_field: arrival_field). One has a hyphen, while the other has an underscore.

Can you verify that the ACF data is being successfully sent along to the function? By printing or console logging?

• codeSpecter

• September 30, 2020 at 11:38 am

Thank you for taking the time to look at this. Here’s a snippet from the console log. It looks like the data for the ACF fields is empty.

_links: Object { self: (1) […], collection: (1) […], about: (1) […], … }
​
aircraft: “”
​
arrival_field: “”
​
content: Object { raw: “Test remarks.”, rendered: “<p>Test remarks.</p>\n”, protected: false, … }
​
date: “”
​
date_gmt: “2020-09-30T01:29:32”
​
departure_field: “”
​

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