Shortcode inside flexible field

• erdd

• June 21, 2021 at 5:17 am

I have a simple shortcode in functions.php:

add_shortcode ('getAppID', 'get_current_page_url');
	function get_current_page_url() {

		if(isset($_GET['appID'])){
      		$appID = $_GET['appID'];
			$fullAppID = '?appID=' . $appID;

			return $fullAppID;

			}
		}

which I want to trigger in a flexible ACF field with
[getAppID]

But it doesn’t work. It works perfectly in a NON-ACF field. The documentation for how to do use shortcode in a flexible or repeater field does not exist.

• Fettabachi

• July 23, 2021 at 9:54 am

I’m using Contact 7 forms in this way. I have a flexible content field I’m using as a page builder.

I added my shortcode to a text field schedule_a_demo_form like this;
[contact-form-7 id="xxx" title="Schedule A Demo"]

In my template I do this;
$scheduleADemoForm = get_sub_field('schedule_a_demo_form');
echo do_shortcode($scheduleADemoForm);

Also, to prevent users from altering the shortcode in the text field I added a class admin-readonly to the wrapper and in my admin-styles.css added this style;

.admin-readonly {
    pointer-events: none;
}

This prevents them from accessing the input (unless they know how to use developer tools that is 🙂 )