get_field() and get_fields() returns: array(field_key => false)

• [email protected]

• July 25, 2013 at 12:25 am

Straight to the point:

Here’s what i get when i run get_post_meta():

// Removed unrelated meta fields such as "_edit_last"

array(6) {
  ["mail_header_title"]=>
  array(1) {
    [0]=>
    string(30) "...data removed..."
  }
  ["_mail_header_title"]=>
  array(1) {
    [0]=>
    string(19) "field_51ee1db3aa7a0"
  }
  ["mail_header_description"]=>
  array(1) {
    [0]=>
    string(18) "...data removed..."
  }
  ["_mail_header_description"]=>
  array(1) {
    [0]=>
    string(19) "field_51ee1f63241e5"
  }
}

Here’s what i get when i run get_fields():

array(2) {
  ["field_51ee1db3aa7a0"]=>
  bool(false)
  ["field_51ee1f63241e5"]=>
  bool(false)
}

What i want it to return (and what it *should* return according to the doc):

// Pseudocode, ofc
array(
  'field_name' => 'field value'
)

I have compared the field keys through admin and they are indeed correct.

I found this in the documentation for get_fields():

This is a very simple function which finds ALL custom field values **(that don’t start with an “_”)**…

But i have both with and without _ stored. I assume that’s normal, but i don’t understand why it returns the wrong data. It works just fine everywhere else, it’s just for this specific field group it messes up.

Any ideas?

• Elliot

• July 25, 2013 at 1:25 pm

Hi @[email protected]

Perhaps you need to pass through the $post_id parameter to the get_fields function.

Looks like totaly different data is being returned. This may be due to ACF loading from the wrong post_id

• [email protected]

• July 25, 2013 at 4:25 pm

Hi, @elliot

I was passing the $post_id to both functions, i even tried manually passing it.

I solved it though! The problem was that i was calling the functions before ACF has initiated completely (i’m guessing). I put the code inside the init action and now it runs beautifully.