Guest file upload

Hi, I’m glad you’re liking it!

When doing guest file uploads ACF automatically switches the WordPress media uploader for a regular file input. Unfortunately it doesn’t handle these files automatically and you will need to process them manually like a regular PHP file upload. Here is a simple guide: https://www.w3schools.com/php/php_file_upload.asp

Thanks for bringing it up! Going to think about a nice way of integrating this in the plugin. It’s a difficult issue as there are many different use cases of regular file uploads and you might not always want to create a WP media post.

Hope I could help!

Would it be possible that your plug-in looks at the current active user (with the minimum role to be able to upload/use media) and that your plugin then disables the acces to the media libray, and only allows file uploads?

With that in mind I can just make one guest account (with the right role) for anyone who wants to submit the form, including media upload.

Thanks,

Peter Luit

That’s a good idea, Peter!

I have also been thinking about a solution similar to acf_form which takes an argument for “uploader”. Through that you can specify if you want the basic or WP uploader to be used. This way you could simply change a parameter for users of certain roles to show them the basic uploader instead.

How does that solution sound to you?

Hello again!

I just wanted to inform you guys that the latest version of AF that I just published (1.0.4) includes the argument I talked about in my last response. It’s now possible to pass an uploader argument to the form which specifies which upload method to use.

Check out the documentation: https://advancedforms.github.io/guides/basic/displaying-a-form/

Hope this helps!