Render Form Fields separately / dynamically on the front end

[ardiansyaherwin]

Hi,

Is there any hooks / function to render the form fields individually?

Because when you use cmb2_get_metabox_form, it automatically added the form and the fields in a single call based on cmb2_metabox_form(). I mean is there any function to call like,

$the_forms = cmb2_get_metabox_form($meta_box, $object_id, '');
foreach $the_forms as $the_form => $key{
    echo $key->form_header(); // the opening form tag along with the nonce and hidden fields
    echo $key->form_field('field_id_1');
    echo $key->form_field('field_id_2');
    echo "------"; // this could be anything like the opening/closing div tag
    echo $key->form_field('field_id_3');
    echo $key->form_field('submit');
    echo $key->form_footer(); // the closing form tag
}

You know, it's for the front end templating matters.

Thanks.

[ardiansyaherwin]

@jtsternberg hi big thanks for the commits, and I'm sorry for not very clear on my questions.

So basically, I've achieved what I wanted to, but with a little copy this and that from the core.
Here's my page template:

<?php
$GLOBALS['getfront_cmb']  = wds_frontend_cmb2_get(); // get the object array
CMB2_hookup::enqueue_cmb_css(); //for the wyswyg, I have to do this manually
CMB2_hookup::enqueue_cmb_js(); //for the wyswyg, I have to do this manually

function getcmb_atts($id, $atts){ // to get only a specific attribute
    $that_field = $GLOBALS['getfront_cmb']->meta_box['fields'][$id][$atts];
    return $that_field;
  }
  function getcmb_field($id){ // THIS is the RENDER method, that I copied from the plugin
    $that_field = $GLOBALS['getfront_cmb']->meta_box['fields'][$id];
    $field = $GLOBALS['getfront_cmb']->get_field( $that_field )->render_field();
    return $field;
  }
?>
<!-- the form -->
<form class="cmb-form post-form" method="post" id="<?php echo $GLOBALS['getfront_cmb']->cmb_id; ?>" enctype="multipart/form-data" encoding="multipart/form-data">
  <input type="hidden" name="object_id" value="<?php echo $GLOBALS['getfront_cmb']->object_id; ?>">
  <?php wp_nonce_field( $GLOBALS['getfront_cmb']->nonce(), $GLOBALS['getfront_cmb']->nonce(), false, true ) ?>

<!-- .... whatever bootstrap or foundation or those grids html tags ... -->
<?php getcmb_field("submitted_post_content"); //this is for the wyswyg field ?>
<!-- .... whatever bootstrap or foundation or those grids html tags ... -->
<!-- .... whatever bootstrap or foundation or those grids html tags ... -->
<?php getcmb_field("submitted_post_title"); // text field ?>
<!-- .... whatever bootstrap or foundation or those grids html tags ... -->

<!-- this is the magic of the first function, let's say we want to render a text field (you have to acknowledge the rendered field should be look like first) -->
<input type="text" class="regular-text italic-placeholder" name="submitted_post_title" id="submitted_post_title" placeholder="<?php echo getcmb_atts('submitted_post_title', 'placeholder'); ?>">

<!-- finally the closing form -->
<input type="hidden" name="atts[post_author]" id="atts[post_author]" value="<?php echo get_current_user_id(); ?>">
          <input type="hidden" name="atts[post_status]" id="atts[post_status]" value="pending">
          <input type="hidden" name="atts[post_type]" id="atts[post_type]" value="post">

          <button type="submit" name="submit-cmb" id="submit-cmb" title="Publish" class="hr-btn light-grey">Publish</button>

</form>

Is my code above a bad practice or a pretty good one?
Please let me know, I'm afraid it will break the template once there's CMB2 updates in the future.

Hope this helps someone!
Thanks!