Dynamically populate a field with value from a ACF

Hello @emildebski

If you are integrating the forms in the pages of properties directly through the template file of the theme active on your website, and the field in the form for the price is the fieldname1, and the form’s id is 3, you can insert a piece of code similar to the following into the template file:

<SCRIPT>
cpcff_default = { 1 : {} };
cpcff_default[1][ 'fieldname1' ] = 10.30;
</script>
<?php print do_shortcode('[CP_CALCULATED_FIELDS id="3"]'); ?>

Of course, replacing the 10.30 with the property price, obtained with the WordPress functions.

More information in the following link:
https://cff.dwbooster.com/documentation#populate-form

Another alternative would be using the set of “DS” fields: Using the information stored in a database or csv file in the form

However, as the “DS” fields are distributed with the Developer and Platinum versions of the plugin, we are not allowed to support any customers in these forums.

For pro or commercial product support please contact us directly on our site. This includes any pre-sales topics as well.

Commercial products are not supported in these forums. We will happily answer this and any other questions you can have on our own site.

Thank you.

Thanks for the quick reply.

I’m not quite sure i understand correctly in regards of the “10.30” part.

The price of a property, is stored in a custom field named “price” under each post/property, and is not static but changes on each property as the prices are obviously different. So i need your script to fetch the value of that field.

Hello @emildebski

The function you need is not part of our plugin. If you prefer to use the first method described in my previous entry, and you want to get the a custom field associated to a post (the custom fields are usually associated to the post as a metadata), you should use the WordPress function: get_post_meta

Best regards.

Something like this then – in prolongation of your example (my ACF name for price is “pris”):

<SCRIPT>
cpcff_default = { 1 : {} };
cpcff_default[1][ ‘fieldname1′ ] = <?php echo get_post_meta(get_the_ID(),’pris’,true); ?>;
</script>
<?php print do_shortcode(‘[CP_CALCULATED_FIELDS id=”3″]’); ?>
</SCRIPT>

Hello @emildebski

The shortcode must be inserted after closing the script tag:

<script>
cpcff_default = { 1 : {} };
cpcff_default[1]['fieldname1'] = '<?php echo get_post_meta(get_the_ID(),'pris',true); ?>';
</script>
<?php print do_shortcode('[CP_CALCULATED_FIELDS id="3"]'); ?>

Be sure there is a fieldname1 field in the form.
Best regards.

Thanks for the quick reply. Will try it out now. Does it matter which type of field “fieldname1” is? Can it be a currency field, which will give users the ability to change the pre-populated amount on the frontend, to try different pricing/mortgage calculations?

Hello @emildebski

Yes, it can be a currency field.

Best regards.

Hmmm did not work for me.

This is my code:

<script>
cpcff_default = { 1 : {} };
cpcff_default[1]['fieldname3'] = '<?php echo get_post_meta(get_the_ID(),'pris',true); ?>';
</script>

I created a test form, with only 1 field (currency) = fieldname3.

And inserted the form via text shortcode (not php) = [CP_CALCULATED_FIELDS id=”6″].

I see the form on the frontend, but the currency field is empty.

Hello @emildebski

Please, share the URL to the page where the form and code were inserted.

Best regards.

Here for example:

https://ba2018test.wpengine.com/penthouse-med-panorama-view-til-salg-i-miraflores

Hello @emildebski

If you are using a piece of PHP code, it should be inserted into the template file of the theme active on your website, not in the page content, or the PHP code won’t be evaluated. Please, look the screenshot below (as you can see the PHP is not being evaluated):

Best regards.

Works now! Thanks so much. Had to put the js code in footer – don’t knwo why it didn’t work inside of the html/template.

• This reply was modified 5 years ago by EmilianoD85.