ravensays

Hello .. if you are asking ‘can’ as ‘can it be done’ then the answer is yes.

If you are asking that ACF Extended ‘include’ Stripe payment processing then, while I can not speak for the developer of this plugin, that probably adds another whole layer of development and potential support (time and effort) on top of this plugin.

I was working on adding a form that integrated with (used) Stripe payments. I have been side tracked for months with other things life has thrown at us but did have it kind of working. It was to allow ‘donations’ to a charity and options for selecting a fixed amount or entering your own amount. I got it to process and do the calculations but some of the hidden stuff calls and ‘json’ stuff I still need to make cleaner. Since then he has made/fixed/added features that may make that easier or require us to change our code a little but as I said in first line it no doubt can be done..

I hope to get working on it again mid Jan after the holidays are over.

One can donate to this plugin on the first page of the “Plugin:Advanced Custom Fields Extended” A donate button is on the right side below the number of support questions. I copied that link for you donate2acfe

Our non profit could not donate directly to this but like you believe in this plugin and all the work he does so I used that link and made a personal donation a while back. It takes you to a third party but we did get confirmation that it indeed when to him. Hope that helps. It says a “cup of java” but we felt he needed to get enough for a full carafe of it LOL.

The old invite link I have to Slack didn’t just work but the link I have to sign-in for it dit. That link is: Slack Link

Also the Trello board he has set up is awesome. It breaks up and shows things into bug reports, feature requests, work in progress, etc. That link is: Trello Link

Hope that helps and work for you

Two things –

First: how complicated multi might be an issue but believe this already has this ability as you can use hooks or conditions or actions to achieve.

Second: you say like AF does. AF is built on using ACF so it definitely is suitable for forms including multi, ah IMO.

PS I am still learning and a lot of things are there but not easy to notice until one uses them because the documentation is still limited.

I FINALLY (YEAH !!) was able to get my calculated field to grab values from form, do a calculation based on those values, and most importantly then update another field on the form which is then saved to newly created post in DB. I did it by not using the ‘action’ submission but instead using a ‘filter’ update field ‘value’ by field_key. Not finished yet but that was a big deal breaker that seems to now be working OK.

Also I understand much better how this all is working by looking at where values are going and coming from. I have begun making a diagram of same to share with others as believe it is the equivalent of ACF/ACFE Variables for Dummies pictorial explanation. Will share it when done for correction or enhancement as needed.

I had looked at that but I didn’t see it. Like trying to find something stop looking for it and you trip over it LOL

I needed to take the word ‘action’ out of my action hooks as it no longer is used for that type. Now our forms are working like they did in 8.1.

Appreciate your trying to work with us as we learn. Was worried something had happened to you so glad it was just life getting in the way that caused your absence from here. Understand also that documentation can take tons of time from actual developement (used to write and manage an IT team) but we also found that it became way too much work if we waited too long as we were dealing with users (like me on this) since there wasn’t good documentation for them. BUT also find part of my confusion and trying to learn ACF is that as they made upgrades what they said in previous support answers or documentation was no longer valid. Tough situation to be in… so again THANKS for all you do with this..

So please mark this as resolved..

OK so forms work with 8.1 and 5.8.5 pro. Upgrade to 5.8.6 pro and still work. However if upgrade to 8.2 with either 5.8.5 or 5.8.6 and forms do not work as before.

The form appears to process successfully as the spinner runs, then the form closes, and the success message from the ‘post’ action tab is displayed.

BUT do not get echos that are in other ‘action’ functions and the fields that were being assigned and saved with meta-data as part of those ‘actions’ for a post no longer are.

OK.. when I looked at plugins page there were two 8.2 and an 8.1 there. I deleted all then made sure no directories existed on file system. I also deactivated the latest version of ACF-Pro and made sure its directory was empty.

I then reinstalled and activated ACF-Extended 8.1 and ACF-Pro 5.8.5 versions. Then my forms worked as before. Have to go to work now but will let all know which (or if both) caused my forms to stop working in the last week.

Did some research and found prior plugins are ‘hidden’ so to say, under the ‘advanced’ link.

I was able to download and re-install 8.1 but unfortunately it no longer works as it did before either so will uninstall it all and see if can find what changed. Will shut off other plugins too to see if one of them bit us. Will look for file mod dates in other plugins as that may help find issue ??

And if I get it working again will do a BACKUP IMMEDIATELY lol ..

Thank you! We will look at it. Will also 5* and a small $ from us personally (sep from foundation) for your work on plugin and help here. Safe Journey.

My apologies for not using the pastebin . I did not understand how to paste the code properly until now. Thank you.

Thank you for sharing and trying to help us learn. Part of the issue, at least for me, is not sure of what the color coding means on ACF documentation. I read and reread using the save post before using your plugin and now again after what you just wrote for us. That is why I mentioned flow chart (some kind of pictures) because to those that know how it works it is simple. To us ‘simple’ people that do not understand it is still all hidden behind the clouds lol.

For instance your explanation to me still doesn’t clear up why the next new post I go to create has the calculated field info from the prior post I created (but only that field has the old data). Where was it hiding and if it was hid somewhere why couldn’t the current new post see it. It seems the ‘post_id’ is the juggler of our data that is laughing at me.

Also forgive me I was seeing your ‘submit’ action code as being the ‘acf save post’ just worded differently for use in your admin actions tabs.

I will try to work through this some more and hopefully the light bulb will go on and stay on or not explode :O)

We THANK You for a timely and complete explanation – example. Part of what we do is education via videos. We will be making one that includes using this plugin and referencing it in written portion/ credits.