Using Separate ACF Fields Inside Custom Front End Submission Form

• luckydays

• December 8, 2017 at 10:25 am

Hello!

Really looking forward to your assistance, the ACF community.
The issue seems to be so simple, but still struggling to solve it.

So, I’m dealing with WP Pro Real Estate 7 theme (http://contempothemes.com/wp-real-estate-7/), there’s implemented default frontend ‘List A Property’ form. I’m adding only 2 ACF fields inside it and need them to pass their values during the post saving process.

But, the thing is that I was able to manage things for the ‘edit post’ custom page template, but not for the ‘save post’.

For ‘edit post’ this code inside template-edit-listing.php (custom page template) worked out really well:

 acf_form (array(
 'post_id'   => $current_post, 
 'field_groups' => array(3170), 
 'form' => false,
 'return' => '', 
 'post_title' => false,
 'post_content' => false,
 ));

I was trying to use it for the ‘save post’, changing ‘post_id’ in many various combinations, but it doesn’t work at all. There were already:

'post_id' => $_POST['acf'],

with the ACF documentation’s code inside functions.php:

`function my_acf_save_post( $post_id ) {

// bail early if no ACF data
if( empty($_POST[‘acf’]) ) {
return;
}

// array of field values
$fields = $_POST[‘acf’];

// specific field value
$field = $_POST[‘acf’][‘field_5966915177626’];

}`

and

$post_id = get_the_ID();
acf_form (array(
	'post_id'   => $post_id,
    ...

and

'post_id' => 'new'

with the code inside functions.php:

add_filter('acf/pre_save_post' , 'tsm_do_pre_save_post' );

function tsm_do_pre_save_post( $post_id ) {
 
    // Bail if not logged in or not able to post
    if ( ! ( is_user_logged_in() || current_user_can('publish_posts') ) ) {
        return;
    }
 
    // check if this is to be a new post
    if( $post_id != 'new' ) {
        return $post_id;
    }
 
    // Create a new post
    $post = array(
        'post_type'     => 'listings', // Your post type ( post, page, custom post type )
        'post_status'   => 'publish', // (publish, draft, private, etc.)
        'post_title'    => '', // Post Title ACF field key
        'post_content'  => '', // Post Content ACF field key
    );

// insert the post
    $post_id = wp_insert_post( $post );
 
    // Save the fields to the post
    do_action( 'acf/save_post' , $post_id );
 
    return $post_id;
 
}

but any positive result so far.

Could somebody assist me with fixing this issue, please?

Best wishes!