Reply To: WordPress Editor as Flexible Content Layout

• benluoma

• March 7, 2014 at 10:08 am

So I can thus far save my flexible content field layout to post_content with:

//save field content to the_content
function save_to_the_content( $value, $post_id )
{
		wp_update_post( array( 'ID' => $post_id, 'post_content' =>  $value ) );
		return $value;
}
add_filter('acf/update_value/key=field_5318e88463d1e', 'save_to_the_content', 10, 3);

I’m still struggling with getting it to work the opposite way – post_content to flexible content layout. I’m able to sort of accomplish it with this:

//multi-dimensional array in_array
function multi_in_array($value, $array) 
{ 
    foreach ($array as $item) 
    { 
        if (!is_array($item)) 
        { 
            if ($item == $value) 
            { 
                return true; 
            } 
            continue; 
        } 

        if (in_array($value, $item)) 
        { 
            return true; 
        } 
        else if (multi_in_array($value, $item)) 
        { 
            return true; 
        } 
    } 
    return false; 
} 

function save_to_acf_layout( $value, $post_id, $field )
{

$field_key = "field_5318e86463d1d";
$value = get_field($field_key);

$page = get_post();
$string = $page->post_content;

if(!multi_in_array("the_content", $value) && $string != '') :
	$value[] = array("text" => $string, "acf_fc_layout" => "the_content");
	update_field( $field_key, $value, $post_id );
endif;
}

add_action('save_post', 'save_to_acf_layout');

I’m struggling to get both functions working together. And my second function is imperfect – doesn’t work exactly how I’d like. Thoughts?