Title: front-end form
Last modified: September 30, 2016

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# front-end form

 *  [Marc Jauvin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mjauvin/)
 * (@mjauvin)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/front-end-form-4/)
 * Hello, are there any plans on supporting the following feature offered by ACF?
 *  [https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/acf_form/](https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/acf_form/)
 * I want to build an order form with Complex fields but I don’t see how I can do
   this with CF.
 * Thanks.

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 *  Thread Starter [Marc Jauvin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mjauvin/)
 * (@mjauvin)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/front-end-form-4/#post-8239253)
 * Actually, I am not even sure this ACF feature does what I want… I need to be 
   able to create an order form with Complex field type (allow a visitor to add 
   multiple optional entries in the order form). But I don’t necessarily want them
   to create a post, only be able to receive the form and process it on the back-
   end.
 *  [Gilles Vauvarin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vauvarin/)
 * (@vauvarin)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/front-end-form-4/#post-8362922)
 * Hello,
 * I’ve got the same need as Marc: build a front-end form with a repeater field 
   and process the data in the background in a complex field type.
 * To build the repeater field in the front-end form, I use this github Jquery script:
   [https://github.com/DubFriend/jquery.repeater](https://github.com/DubFriend/jquery.repeater)
 * In a CPT, I’ve got a complex field type:
 *     ```
       Container::make( 'post_meta', esc_html__( 'Schedule' , 'katt' ) )
             ->show_on_post_type( 'presentation' )
             ->add_fields( array(
         			        Field::make( 'complex', 'complex_presentation_speakers' , esc_html__( 'Speaker(s)' , 'katt' ) )->add_fields( array(
         						          Field::make( 'select' , 'katt_presentation_speakers' , esc_html__( 'Speaker' , 'katt' ) )
         					    	        ->add_options( $katt_presentations_users_dropdown_menu ),
         						)),
             ));
       ```
   
 * – How to structure the array() with the data get from the front Jquery repeater
   to set it in the complex field ?
 * – How to name the complex field when setting the array() with add_post_meta ?
   
   add_post_meta(“post_ID” , “field_name-structure ?”, array() );
 * Thanks for your help.
 *  Thread Starter [Marc Jauvin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mjauvin/)
 * (@mjauvin)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/front-end-form-4/#post-8363224)
 * Since I last wrote I decided to try ACF Pro with the front-end form support and
   I must say it’s working really well.
 * I really prefer Carbon Fields and would really like it if support for Front-end
   form was added.
 * Thanks.
 *  Plugin Author [htmlBurger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/htmlburger/)
 * (@htmlburger)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/front-end-form-4/#post-8497050)
 * Hey, thanks for the great suggestion.
 * Unfortunately we don’t plan to include this feature in CF. We may consider making
   another plugin just for front-end form handling that works with CF, but it’s 
   not on the roadmap at the moment.

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