Saving fields to user registration form

• dhod

• February 25, 2015 at 9:33 am

I have tried and tried to find the documentation as to whether this is possible but can’t seem to find a proper answer, so…

I have a user registration form on my front end and have combined it with some ACF forms:

<form name="registerform" id="registerform" action="<?php echo site_url('wp-login.php?action=register', 'login_post') ?>" method="post">
						<p>
						<label for="user_login">Username</label>
						<input type="text" name="user_login" id="user_login" class="input" value="">
						</p>
						<p>
						<label for="user_email">E-mail</label>
						<input type="text" name="user_email" id="user_email" class="input" value="">
						</p>

						<?php $options = array(
						    'post_id' => 'user_'.$current_user->ID,
						    'field_groups' => array(136),
						    'form' => false, 
						    //'return' => add_query_arg( 'updated', 'true', get_permalink() ), 
						    'html_before_fields' => '',
						    'html_after_fields' => '',
						    //'submit_value' => 'Update' 
						);
						acf_form( $options );
						?>

						<p style="display:none">
						<label for="confirm_email">Please leave this field empty</label>
						<input type="text" name="confirm_email" id="confirm_email" class="input" value="">
						</p>
						<p id="reg_passmail">A password will be e-mailed to you.</p>
						<input type="hidden" name="redirect_to" value="login/?action=register&success=1" />
						<p class="submit"><input type="submit" name="wp-submit" id="wp-submit" class="button button-primary button-large" value="Register" /></p>
					</form>

It saves and a new user is created but none of the other values are added, i’ve seen some things about hooking in to the registration but I can’t see how i’d do that here?

Any help that could point me in the right direction would be massively appreciated!

Thanks in advance
Dan

• bowersinit

• September 1, 2015 at 7:23 pm

having the same issue, did you ever find a solution?

• Jonathan

• September 2, 2015 at 5:53 am

Hi @dhod and @bowersinit

when using acf_form within another field like this there’s no automagic saving happening so you’ll have to do that yourself (as you figured out).

I think what you need is to hook into the user_register action:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference/user_register

and save the ACF input values to their respective fields. Something like:

function save_additional_user_meta( $user_id ) {

    if ( isset( $_POST['NAME PARAMETER OF THE ACF INPUT FIELD'] ) )
        update_user_meta($user_id, 'first_name', $_POST['NAME PARAMETER OF THE ACF INPUT FIELD']);

}
add_action( 'user_register', 'save_additional_user_meta', 10, 1 );

• bowersinit

• September 2, 2015 at 6:29 pm

Thanks Jonathan, but i dont seem to be able to make this work, this it the markup of one of the fields im trying to save:

<input type="number" id="acf-field-price_from" class="number" min="1" max="10000000000000000" step="1" name="fields[field_55e57136adc2e]" value="" placeholder="">

and this is the hook im adding to my themes functions file:

function save_additional_user_meta( $user_id ) {

    if ( isset( $_POST['field_55e57136adc2e'] ) )
        update_user_meta($user_id, 'number_of_bedrooms', $_POST['field_55e57136adc2e']);
}
add_action( 'user_register', 'save_additional_user_meta', 10, 1 );

ive tried using the id (acf-field-price_from), name (fields[field_55e57136adc2e]) and field key (field_55e57136adc2e) for the post id, and nothing is getting saved to the db

i tested the hook by removing the if isset, like this

function save_additional_user_meta( $user_id ) {
	update_user_meta($user_id, 'number_of_bedrooms', 'test');
}
add_action( 'user_register', 'save_additional_user_meta', 10, 1 );

and it saves the “number_of_bedrooms” as test, so i know the hook is working, just the syntax might be wrong on the field save function?

any help is much apreciated

• Jonathan

• September 4, 2015 at 7:16 am

Hi @bowersinit

When an input has a name value like fields[field_55e57136adc2e] the $_POST value will actually be an array called fields with a fieldkey of field_55e57136adc2e which in term contains the value.

So try this out:

function save_additional_user_meta( $user_id ) {

    if ( isset( $_POST['fields']['field_55e57136adc2e'] ) )
        update_user_meta($user_id, 'number_of_bedrooms', $_POST['fields']['field_55e57136adc2e']);
}
add_action( 'user_register', 'save_additional_user_meta', 10, 1 );

• bowersinit

• September 6, 2015 at 8:38 pm

Thanks Jonathan, that works when i hook it into the register form, but if i add it into a modal popup login form (using AJAX) the fields are empty, im guessing it has something to do with the ajax saving things in a different way? or am i way off the point here?

• Jonathan

• September 6, 2015 at 11:15 pm

Are your modal login form also for registering then? Is it part of a plugin?

• bowersinit

• September 7, 2015 at 7:18 pm

yes, the modal popups handle login and registration, here is the script that handles all that stuff:

<?php
function ajax_auth_init(){	
	wp_register_style( 'ajax-auth-style', get_template_directory_uri() . '/css/ajax-auth-style.css' );
	wp_enqueue_style('ajax-auth-style');
	
	wp_register_script('validate-script', get_template_directory_uri() . '/js/jquery.validate.js', array('jquery') ); 
    wp_enqueue_script('validate-script');

    wp_register_script('ajax-auth-script', get_template_directory_uri() . '/js/ajax-auth-script.js', array('jquery') ); 
    wp_enqueue_script('ajax-auth-script');

    wp_localize_script( 'ajax-auth-script', 'ajax_auth_object', array( 
        'ajaxurl' => admin_url( 'admin-ajax.php' ),
        'redirecturl' => home_url(),
        'loadingmessage' => __('Sending user info, please wait...')
    ));

    // Enable the user with no privileges to run ajax_login() in AJAX
    add_action( 'wp_ajax_nopriv_ajaxlogin', 'ajax_login' );
	// Enable the user with no privileges to run ajax_register() in AJAX
	add_action( 'wp_ajax_nopriv_ajaxregister', 'ajax_register' );
}

// Execute the action only if the user isn't logged in
if (!is_user_logged_in()) {
    add_action('init', 'ajax_auth_init');
}
  
function ajax_login(){

    // First check the nonce, if it fails the function will break
    check_ajax_referer( 'ajax-login-nonce', 'security' );

    // Nonce is checked, get the POST data and sign user on
  	// Call auth_user_login
	auth_user_login($_POST['username'], $_POST['password'], 'Login'); 
	
    die();
}

function ajax_register(){

    // First check the nonce, if it fails the function will break
    check_ajax_referer( 'ajax-register-nonce', 'security' );
		
    // Nonce is checked, get the POST data and sign user on
    $info = array();
  	$info['user_nicename'] = $info['nickname'] = $info['display_name'] = $info['first_name'] = $info['user_login'] = sanitize_user($_POST['username']) ;
    $info['user_pass'] = sanitize_text_field($_POST['password']);
	$info['user_email'] = sanitize_email( $_POST['email']);
	
	// Register the user
    $user_register = wp_insert_user( $info );
 	if ( is_wp_error($user_register) ){	
		$error  = $user_register->get_error_codes()	;
		
		if(in_array('empty_user_login', $error))
			echo json_encode(array('loggedin'=>false, 'message'=>__($user_register->get_error_message('empty_user_login'))));
		elseif(in_array('existing_user_login',$error))
			echo json_encode(array('loggedin'=>false, 'message'=>__('This username is already registered.')));
		elseif(in_array('existing_user_email',$error))
        echo json_encode(array('loggedin'=>false, 'message'=>__('This email address is already registered.')));
    } else {
	  auth_user_login($info['nickname'], $info['user_pass'], 'Registration');       
    }

    die();
}

function auth_user_login($user_login, $password, $login)
{
	$info = array();
    $info['user_login'] = $user_login;
    $info['user_password'] = $password;
    $info['remember'] = true;
	
	$user_signon = wp_signon( $info, false );
    if ( is_wp_error($user_signon) ){
		echo json_encode(array('loggedin'=>false, 'message'=>__('Wrong username or password.')));
    } else {
		wp_set_current_user($user_signon->ID); 
        echo json_encode(array('loggedin'=>true, 'message'=>__($login.' successful, redirecting...')));
    }
	
	die();
}

ive tried putting code after the Register the user like this:`
$user_register = wp_insert_user( $info );
update_user_meta($info_id, ‘number_of_bedrooms’, $_POST[‘fields’][‘field_55e56dfdabccb’]);`

but this doesnt even save an empty value to “number_of_bedrooms” in the usermeta table.

as i understand it, wp_insert_user returns the user id as $info once it successfully registers the user, i guess im missing something somewhere?

• Jonathan

• September 8, 2015 at 3:59 am

The hook user_register should run just the same as when you’re registering a user not through AJAX..
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_insert_user#Notes

However the function wp_insert_user will return the new user id if successful so you should be able to do this right after:

update_user_meta($user_register, 'number_of_bedrooms', $_POST['fields']['field_55e56dfdabccb']);