Hi @geoffreygordon
Okay, that’s all clear now (thanks for the video!).
As I suspected, this is about compatibility. All the “text” type fields will work just fine as Forminator is passing data in a “raw text” format but ACF’s “select” and “checkbox” fields (as well as radio, image, gallery, file and some other, in case you’d be using them) – they all need to have form data converted with an additional custom code.
This is not and never have been built-in into the plugin so I’m actually quite surprised that it was included in some tutorial video (by the way, was that our tutorial or some 3rd-party video?).
But anyway, I believe we can help with this.
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First, you need to make sure about some basic prerequisites.
1. in the registration form settings
a) in “Settings” make sure that “Multiple Option Value” option is set to “Option Values”
b) then in both your checkbox and your select fields on the form make sure that the VALUES (not labels) of the options are set EXACTLY the same (including lower/upper case characters, spaces etc; be careful about special characters – they may not be supported) as relevant options for select and checkbox field configured in ACF.
By “the same” I mean that if e.g. in ACF checkbox field you have options
Option A
Option B
something else
then relevant checkbox on the form MUST have its options’ values set to be exactly that
Option A
Option B
something else
c) and make sure that form fields are correctly mapped to ACF fields; by “correctly” I mean that in “Custom User Meta” you need the first field (label) of each filed to be set to exact ACF field name; then in second field you choose the form field to map it to.
I believe you already have it done since text fields are correctly saved.
2. Add this code to the site as Must Use plugin:
<?php
add_action( 'forminator_cform_user_registered', 'forminator_acf_user_compat', 99, 3 );
function forminator_acf_user_compat( $user_id, $custom_form, $entry ) {
$forms = array( 123, 18098 ); // comma separated list of form IDs to apply this to
// list of ACF checkbox fields to be made compatible
// format
// 'acf_field_name' => 'form_field_id'
$checkboxes = array(
'my_checkbox' => 'checkbox-1',
);
# do not edit below
if ( !in_array( $custom_form->id, $forms ) ) {
return;
}
$form_data = $entry->meta_data;
$field = '';
$acf_format = array();
//convert and update checkboxes
foreach ($checkboxes as $acf => $formi) {
if ( array_key_exists( $formi, $form_data ) ) {
$field = $form_data[$formi]['value'];
$acf_format = explode( ',', $field);
foreach ( $acf_format as $a=>$b) {
$acf_format[$a] = trim($b);
}
update_user_meta( $user_id, $acf, $acf_format );
}
}
}
To do that:
– create an empty file with .php extension (e.g. “forminator-user-acf-compatibility.php”) in the “/wp-content/mu-plugins” folder of your site’s WordPress install
– copy and paste code into it
– in this line of the code replace numbers with form IDs of the forms that you want that to be applied to
$forms = array( 123, 18098 );
– in this part you need to “map” fields again
$checkboxes = array(
'my_checkbox' => 'checkbox-1',
);
Basically, on the left it’s ACF field name, on the right it’s form field ID (but without curly brackets). I hope this is understandable.
Note that this is only about checkbox type fields, you don’t add select type fields here.
Save the file and that’s pretty much it.
If it’s all set and added correctly, checkboxes now should be properly reflected in user profile. I tested it with ACF and it works exactly as it should.
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As for select type fields – in my tests it actually does work out of the box, provided that
a) select filed on the form is NOT set to be “multiselect” (it’s just a regular single select)
b) and its options’ values are exactly the same as options in ACF in relevant field (see point 1b earlier).
Best regards,
Adam
