Validation bound to specific form only

• xoxoxo

• April 5, 2020 at 9:49 am

How do you make sure that validation only fires for a specific form ? I’ve tried to attach an ID to the form, and then validate the fields calling them with the ID, but it’s not working, my validation fires in the back-end on my options pages also ..

My form:

<?php

acf_form_head();

$avatar_group = get_field( 'sys_avatar_field_group', 'option' );
$current_user = wp_get_current_user();

$user_id = get_current_user_id();
$user_acf_prefix = 'user_';
$user_id_prefixed = $user_acf_prefix . $user_id;

$user_info = get_userdata($user_id);
$member_email = $user_info->user_email;

$options = array(
	'post_id' => 'user_'.$current_user->ID,
	'field_groups' => array(group_5e880597057c0, $avatar_group),
	'submit_value' => 'Update Profile'
);

?>

Validation :

/** User Meta Validation ------------------------------------------------ **/

add_action('acf/validate_save_post', 'validate_user_input_data');

function validate_user_input_data() {

  $email = $_POST['acf']['field_5e888c0933f31'];
  $user_info = get_userdata($user_id);
  $current_id = get_current_user_id();
  $current_email = get_the_author_meta('user_email', $current_id);

  if ( empty($_POST['acf']['field_5e880c9b0e92d']) ) {
    acf_add_validation_error( 'acf[field_5e880c9b0e92d]', 'Name cannot be empty' );
  }

  if ( empty($_POST['acf']['field_5e880d0daa23b']) ) {
    acf_add_validation_error( 'acf[field_5e880d0daa23b]', 'Surname cannot be empty' );
  }

  if ( empty($_POST['acf']['field_5e880d3baa23c']) ) {
    acf_add_validation_error( 'acf[field_5e880d3baa23c]', 'Nickname cannot be empty' );
  }

  if ( empty($_POST['acf']['field_5e886a3273989']) ) {
    acf_add_validation_error( 'acf[field_5e886a3273989]', 'Display name cannot be empty' );
  }

  if ( empty($_POST['acf']['field_5e888c0933f31']) ) {
    acf_add_validation_error( 'acf[field_5e888c0933f31]', 'You need to specify an email address' );
  }

  if ( email_exists($email) && $email != $current_email ) {
    acf_add_validation_error( 'acf[field_5e888c0933f31]', 'The email address you entered is not available' );
  }

}

• John Huebner

• April 6, 2020 at 1:13 am

If you only want the validation to run on the front end then add a check at the top of your filter

if (is_admin()) {
  return;
}