Post data from non-admin user in WordPress

Question

I'm speaking of "post" as in the html method, not a blog post. This overlap in terminology is probably a good part of the reason I can't find what I'm looking for.

I have some admin pages set up with forms, using add_action('admin_post_something', 'my_function'); to handle saving the form data to the database. That all works marvelously.

Now I have a client-side piece that requires the user to be logged in to post data, but not necessarily be an admin. The admin_post_something hook will not work (returns page not found) because the user is not an admin. This is expected behavior.

What hook action should I use to process and store information coming from the client-facing portion of my site, and where should this function be located? Examples or links to documentation are appreciated.

Thanks

Answer 1

Inside your function which processes the POST data, you could have a conditional check to see if the form has been submitted. For example:

if ( isset( $_POST['a-hidden-field-name-in-your-form'] ) ) { 
    // do something here because the form has been submitted 
}