Nope. Never figured it out. Went a different route using a different plugin.
Sorry @robnero. It’s early, I have a newborn that doesn’t sleep, and I’m only on coffee #1. Of course those are placeholders…
No, even using the long field names, no success getting post_title or post_content to populate via $_POST variable via the acf_form function.
I guess I could set ‘post_title’ to true in the acf_form, hide the form field via CSS/JS, have it populate from another field via JS, and then be submitted that way. Just seems like a lot of extra work to do something that should be able to be accomplished on the server side.
@robnero Nope. I tried that too, but I don’t think the $_POST variables have been established before the form submits. So they can’t be passed to acf_form_head before they exist. I may be wrong on why, but it didn’t work in testing.
As an aside, using ‘field_1’, ‘field_2’, etc. Doesn’t work at all. At least not filtering with pre_save_post or update_content_value. I’ve only had success with the nonsense-looking field names I pull off of the source code HTML that looks like ‘field_5419e384411cb’ or something similar.
@rockeypjb and @robnero
That’s not working with PRO. I set up the front end form like this:
acf_form( array('post_id' => 'new_post',
'new_post' => array(
'post_title' => 'Temp Title',
'post_content' => 'Temp Contents',
'post_type' => 'members',
'post_status' => 'publish' ),
'submit_value' => 'Submit',
'field_groups' => array( 17 ),
'return' => get_the_permalink() ) );
I tried it without the ‘new_post’ array, knowing that’d I’d be changing the values in a pre_save_post filter, but the post wouldn’t save without it.
Then the pre_save_post function is:
if( $post_id == 'new_post' )
{
$post = array( 'post_title' => $_POST['acf']['field_2'],
'post_content' => $_POST['acf']['field_2'],
'post_type' => 'members',
'post_status' => 'publish' );
$post_id = wp_insert_post( $post );
}
return $post_id;
None of the changes made via the pre_save_post function had any effect on the post that was saved to WP.
Just messing around here. I ran this to see where the Post Title and Post Content are getting passed.
add_filter('acf/pre_save_post' , 'cca_pre_save_post', 10, 1 );
function cca_pre_save_post( $post_id )
{
$_POST['acf']['field_5419e3b4411cc'] = print_r( $_POST, true ); // textarea in form
return $post_id;
}
And this was returned:
Array
(
[_acfnonce] =>
[_acfchanged] => 1
[acf] => Array
(
[field_5419e384411cb] => The Business Name
[field_5419e3b4411cc] =>
[field_5419de9b4834f] => The Buisiness name
[field_5419deb048350] =>
[field_5419df0348353] =>
[field_5419dee748352] =>
[field_5419e441411ce] =>
[field_5419e457411cf] =>
[field_5419e47e411d0] =>
[field_5419e4bb411d1] =>
[field_5419e4c8411d2] =>
[field_5419e4eb411d3] =>
[field_5419e520411d4] =>
[field_54258b963546b] =>
[field_542490cc4e78f] =>
[field_54258cb962f62] =>
[field_5425c8a5fbebe] => 1
)
)
Which, as you can see, doesn’t include either the Post Title or Post Content. However, looking at the Form Data in Dev Tools in Chrome, this is what’s getting passed:
acf[_post_title]:The Post Title
acf[_post_content]:
acf[field_5419e384411cb]:The Business Name
acf[field_5419e3b4411cc]:
acf[field_5419de9b4834f]:The Buisiness name
acf[field_5419deb048350]:
acf[field_5419df0348353]:
acf[field_5419dee748352]:
acf[field_5419e441411ce]:
acf[field_5419e457411cf]:
acf[field_5419e47e411d0]:
acf[field_5419e4bb411d1]:
acf[field_5419e4c8411d2]:
acf[field_5419e4eb411d3]:
acf[field_5419e520411d4]:
acf[field_54258b963546b]:
acf[field_542490cc4e78f]:
acf[field_54258cb962f62]:
acf[field_5425c8a5fbebe]:1
So … where does ‘_post_title’ go?
Bump. Same thing here.
I’ve tried filtering the post title using the acf/update_value filter. But no combination of _post_title, acf-_post_title, post_title, etc. used as key= or name= seems to fire the filter.
add_filter('acf/update_value/name=_post_title', 'cca_acf_update_post_title', 10, 3);
function cca_acf_update_post_title( $value, $post_id, $field )
{
return "name=_post_title";
}
That does nothing.
