Custom posts and custom taxonomies

I will be building a site that contains a business directory and also an events directory using custom post types for each. Each post type will also have it's own custom taxonomies.
I need 2 separate forms (one for each post type) for the user to be able to submit either an event or a directory listing.
They also must be able to choose which categories (custom taxonomies) their event or directory listing will be in.
Is this possible with Gravity forms?

Great thanks for that. Couple more questions...
With the paypal add-on , can I create different payment options for different post types.
For example, a users pays say $10 a year to put their listing (directory post type) in the directory section via pay to post and a user pays say $5 to list their event (event post type) for 30 days or $10 for 3 months.
Would this be possible?

Also, I would want to make the posts searchable by different criteria, ie. state, city, free event etc. Are all the form fields simply custom fields or will the data be stored elsewhere?

Thanks

Hello everyone. I am loving Gravity Forms so far! However, I'm trying to enable a custom post type's custom taxonomies on my form for a user to submit from the site. This is my code:

function add_taxonomy_data( $form )
{
	if($form["id"] == '2')
	{
		// set the custom taxonomies
		wp_set_object_terms( $form['11'], 'ministry_focus' );
		wp_set_object_terms( $form['8'], 'countries' );
	}
}
add_action( 'gform_post_submission', 'add_taxonomy_data' );

However, it's still using the default Wordpress categories and tags. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

David... thanks very much for the help. But, it's not working for me. I have tried changing the position from 50 to 14 (that's the ID of the position of the dropdown on my form), and also tried it at 50. Is there something else I need to change in that code for my form? My form ID is 2. I've also tried putting the code in different positions of my functions.php just in case something else was throwing it off. Here's a shot of my advanced tab for the drop down:

http://grab.by/8TWy

Excellent! It is working now. Is there a way for this to work with the Multiple Choice form element? Just in case my client wants to be able to select multiple categories? Thanks for your help! I really appreciate it.

I'm doing something very similar, and I got the custom taxonomy to show up as a drop down, but it's not attaching to the custom post type that is used with this form (using the update_post_type hack found elsewhere). It would seem this custom taxonomy needs to be available for the Post Fields?

Thank you so much.

Hey David... I should actually clarify... I said "multiple choice" in one of my posts when I meant to say that I want to use this with Checkboxes. I changed the valid types to 'checkbox' and added a checkbox field to my form. It pulls my taxonomies, but when I select one or multiple checkboxes, it either doesn't validate (I've set it as required), or doesn't attach the taxonomy to my custom post.

RedLetter... what did you do to get it to attach to the post?

Thanks!

@524concepts, this script really isn't setup to handle multiple taxonomies. This snippet is provided as is and is not covered by standard support. You should only need to modify the "ounce_gform_post_submission" function in the snippet to support multiple taxonomies.

@mor10, conceptually all you would need to do is change the "false" on this line to "true". Setting this to "true" will append the taxonomy instead of replacing.

$result = wp_set_object_terms($post_id, (int) $term_id, $taxonomy, false);

Hi mor10, I updated the snippet to support multiple taxonomy fields: http://pastie.org/pastes/1568148/text

Sorry 524concepts, I took a look at adding support for check box taxonomies and unfortunately it is outside of what I can do for standard support.

David - thanks for checking on this and for all of your help. I'm really enjoying Gravity Forms so far. In this case, however, I've figured out how to use my custom post type combined with the Members plugin to accomplish exactly what I need. Thank you!

Hi, I intend to use the gforms within BuddyPress allowing frontend entry /editing of custom post types. Do you anticipate any problems with this?

Ok, I see. Could a newbie do this custom code or it requires significant experience in PHP/WP/BP?

Thank you for your response, yes I would like to have your recommendation to a consultant that could help in this.

Cheers!

Hi,

I got the code found in here: here working perfectly, but I wanted to use it with multiple choice field. With the var valid_types = new Array('select', 'radio'); it does work, but you'll get the default/first choice value there as a choice in the field, the one which could read something like "Choose a category" in dropdowns.

How could I get rid of that?

@David Smith, thank you, worked great.

But what if I have also a dropdown field where I would need the said default value? Any way to disable it for multiple choices and enable in dropdowns? If it gets too complicated, don't sweat it, but in case there's a simple and quick solution I'd love to hear about it.

Thanks.

@David Smith, the code worked perfectly, thank you very much!

I've tried various things on here, but I don't seem to be gettignng anywhere.

I'm not seeing the section that says 'Enable population with a taxonomy at all', this is all I see in the advanced section:

http://www.theisleofavalon.com/temp.png

I am not sure I'm filling in the bits right, maybe that's the problem. The form ID is 2 and I'm assuming the position is 30 (Firebug says field_30).

Doh!

Thanks

Hi, earlier i've found the custom post-type drop down, i would however like to make a dropdown that is populated by selected items in a taxonomy. i.e. i have Hotels in a custom post type, and a custom taxonomy for room types. Now i only want customers, who are on a hotel page, to be able to select room-types which are available for that hotel and not ALL the room types, which i currently get in the custom posttype drop down.....
Hope you can help!