Sync live without Submit button

• EivindFS

• June 10, 2020 at 6:47 pm

Hi there,
I have a lot of ACF forms. I want to update the database live as the values are put in, without using the Submit button to do it. If it works, I will remove the Submit button from the page.

Is there a standard way of doing this? Has anyone attempted this?

Just to share my thought proces on this:

So far I’ve found that I can put a function call on ‘type’ for textareas, and update the database directly using Ajax (or as I just discovered Javascript’s acf.update_field). And I’m currently working on live syncing a group variable, which is slow and hard work as each variable of the group needs a different way of checking whether it is updated.