Get shortcode of form programmatically, using form’s ID

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1 year, 7 months ago

I’d like to use a contact form in a general template like single.php, but I’d like to be able to configure which form is included in the template as a site option. The shortcode should not appear in the post_content, it should be coded into the template.

But instead of a hardcoded form value like [contact-form-7 id="e07e78b" title="Inquire about this work"], I’d like to be able to configure which form appears.

Using ACF, I can store a specific contact_form as a site option. ( contact_form is a post_type, so i can pick which form I want to store in the option, and access it elsewhere via get_field .)

I’m trying to understand if there’s a way to use that form’s ID to get the generated shortcode for that form. I notice that the form shortcode id does not correspond to the form’s post_id in the database, and I can’t find where it’s stored in the post_meta of the form, either.

I do find that there’s a method of WPCF7_ContactForm called shortcode() that generates the shortcode. I’m wondering how I can pass the form $post object and get the generated shortcode for it, in a template.

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This worked. Thanks for the plugin!

My ACF options field inquiry_form is set up to return the full $post instance, but you can just return the ID and modify a bit below.

if ($contact_form = get_field('inquiry_form', 'options')) {
   // this is what gets the instance of the form with the shortcode() method
   $full_form = WPCF7_ContactForm::get_instance($contact_form->ID)
   // note that the instance, not the post, has the method available.
   $shortcode = esc_attr($full_form->shortcode());
   // you need to translate the html entities back to text
   echo apply_shortcodes( html_entity_decode($shortcode) );
}

This reply was modified 1 year, 7 months ago by nimmolo.
This reply was modified 1 year, 7 months ago by nimmolo.

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