Trick: retrieve Formidable Pro Forms in ACF

• nicmare

• August 27, 2014 at 11:52 pm

I love ACF and Formidable Pro! But there was no way to get all available forms from formidable into an acf field.
i dig into the frmpro code and found a helpful function.
at the end this is my acf dropdown:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/n6mwf9snkcgpr2j/Screenshot%202014-08-27%2015.41.33.png?dl=0
it helps me to assign the ID of a form to a post.

instructions:
1. create some forms in formidable pro
2. create a field from type “select”. the field name is important for the next step!
3. insert the following code to your functions.php and modify it to your needs:

/* helper function to get formidable forms to ACF: */
function get_forms(){
	ob_start();
	FrmFormsHelper::forms_dropdown( 'frm_add_form_id' );
	$forms = ob_get_contents();
	ob_end_clean();
	preg_match_all('/<option\svalue="([^"]*)" >([^>]*)<\/option>/', $forms, $matches);
	$result = array_combine($matches[1], $matches[2]);
	return $result;
}
/* auto populate acf field with form IDs */
function load_forms_function( $field ){
	$result = get_forms();
	if( is_array($result) ){
		$field['choices'] = array();
		foreach( $result as $key=>$match ){
			$field['choices'][ $key ] = $match;
		}
	}
    return $field;
}
add_filter('acf/load_field/name=FIELDNAME', 'load_forms_function');

4. Change FIELDNAME with the name of your field. you can retrieve the assigned form id and use it this way:

echo FrmFormsController::get_form_shortcode(
	array(
		'id' => get_field("FIELDNAME")
	)
);

again change FIELDNAME to the name of your field!

FINISHED!

detailed description:
I utilize the existing forms_dropdown function from frmpro. But it echos a select field. So i use ob_start to capture the output and assign it to a variable. then i use preg_match to get two arrays which contain the option value and the option text and merge them. in second function i use the array to autopopulate our acf field.

Screenshot-2....png

• tigre

• September 13, 2014 at 9:08 pm

works great, thanks for the code and help!

• dantahoua

• September 2, 2015 at 1:32 am

Thanks, work great with last version!

• studiopence

• May 7, 2016 at 10:37 am

I love this! Thanks for posting. Still works great!

• welaika

• June 24, 2016 at 2:25 am

Much appreciated the inspiration, but I modified the get_forms() function, because it is too much bound to the produced HTML. I prefer to rely directly on the database. Have not modified other snippet, so I’m thankful to @nicmare 🙂

function get_forms(){
    $results = array();
    foreach (FrmForm::get_published_forms() as $published_form) {
        $results[$published_form->id] = $published_form->name;
    }
    return $results;
}

• nicmare

• June 24, 2016 at 2:29 am

i was not aware of “FrmForm::get_published_forms()”. Your code is definitely better 😉

• iamhexcoder

• April 5, 2017 at 6:51 am

Thanks a ton for this trick, it worked great!

I took the liberty of mashing this function up with a Storm UK Gravity Forms select plugin, and made a Formidable Forms select plugin:

https://github.com/iamhexcoder/formidable_select

Just thought you’d like to know! Any feedback or issues, let me know.

Props given to @nicmare and @welaika in the README 😉

• welaika

• April 5, 2017 at 6:50 pm

Kudos for your zeal 🙂
Happy to see a new open source piece of code out there.

Cheers