How to save fields on custom front-end form?

  • I would like to style my own front-end form (that creates a new post) and save the field inputs as ACF fields (so not using acf_form()).

    What’s the easiest/cleanest way to do so?

    The only solution that comes to my mind after reading the Doc is:

    1. Create <input> fields
    2. Upon submit grab every field with $_POST[..]
    3. Look up the field_keys (e.g. field_424244ec4cds03) and run wp_update_postmeta to create every meta entry manually

      4. Is that the way to go?

      I was wondering whether there might be a chance to hook into somewhere and do something like $_POST['fields']['field_key']=my_value. This way I would change the value before it is inserted into the database by ACF (no need to do the database insertion by myself..).

      Any ideas/help greatly appreciated!

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  • I see no reason why you cannot use $_POST[‘fields’][‘field_key’]. ACF’s acf_forms() uses this inside the theme’s functions.php file. Perhaps you could use this somehow:

    function my_pre_save_post( $post_id )
{
    // check if this is to be a new post
    if( $post_id != 'new' )
    {
        return $post_id;
    }

    // Create a new post
    $post = array(
        'post_status'  => 'publish' ,
        'post_title'  => $_POST['fields']['field_name'] ,
        'post_type'  => 'posts' ,
    );  

    // insert the post
    $post_id = wp_insert_post( $post ); 

    // update $_POST['return']
    $_POST['return'] = add_query_arg( array('post_id' => $post_id), $_POST['return'] );    

    // return the new ID
    return $post_id;
}

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

    Hi

    Can u pls explain how to put ACF custom Field in following
    $post = array(
    ‘post_status’ => ‘publish’ ,
    ‘post_title’ => $_POST[‘fields’][‘field_name’] ,
    ‘post_type’ => ‘posts’ ,
    );

    I dont wish to use acf_form because there is come JS issue with my theme which dont allow me to browser image

    So it will be better if u show me how to add a ACF text field and ACF image filed in $Post

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