Reply To: Programmatically inserting field with update_field() does not at _field_key meta

• KillianLeroux

• September 10, 2020 at 12:28 am

Hi John, thanks for your answer!

I use only field keys and I use several levels of nested fields, for example:

const ACF_ID_COMPANY_IDENTITY = 'field_5d5e603dbfb7b';
const ACF_ID_COMPANY_IDENTITY_LOGO = 'field_5d5e60cbbfb7d';
const ACF_ID_COMPANY_IDENTITY_CREATION_YEAR = 'field_5d5e6279bfb80';
const ACF_ID_COMPANY_IDENTITY_HR_MAIL = 'field_5e022ff49af2b';
const ACF_ID_COMPANY_IDENTITY_TURNOVER = 'field_5d5e6c44bfb88';
const ACF_ID_COMPANY_IDENTITY_HEADER_ILLU = 'field_5d5e612abfb7e';
const ACF_ID_COMPANY_IDENTITY_MAIN_ILLU = 'field_5d5e61e3bfb7f';
const ACF_ID_COMPANY_IDENTITY_MAIN_ILLU_MEDIA = 'field_5dc95f49358a6' . '_' . ACF_ID_GLOBAL_MEDIA;
const ACF_ID_COMPANY_IDENTITY_MAIN_ILLU_MEDIA_TYPE = ACF_ID_GLOBAL_MEDIA_TYPE;
const ACF_ID_COMPANY_IDENTITY_MAIN_ILLU_MEDIA_IMAGE = ACF_ID_GLOBAL_MEDIA_IMAGE;
const ACF_ID_COMPANY_IDENTITY_MAIN_ILLU_MEDIA_VIDEO = ACF_ID_GLOBAL_MEDIA_VIDEO;

// Logo
if ($company->hasLogo() && $company->getLogo()->hasId()) {
    $identity[ACF_ID_COMPANY_IDENTITY_LOGO] = $company->getLogo()->getId();
}

// Creation Year
if ($company->hasCreationYear()) {
    $identity[ACF_ID_COMPANY_IDENTITY_CREATION_YEAR] = $company->getCreationYear();
}

// Global HR Mail Address
if ($company->hasGlobalHrMailAddress()) {
    $identity[ACF_ID_COMPANY_IDENTITY_HR_MAIL] = $company->getGlobalHrMailAddress();
}

// Turnover
if ($company->hasTurnover()) {
    $identity[ACF_ID_COMPANY_IDENTITY_TURNOVER] = $company->getTurnover();
}

// -- /General

// -- Illustrations
// Header Illustration
if ($company->hasHeaderMedia() && $company->getHeaderMedia()->hasId()) {
    $identity[ACF_ID_COMPANY_IDENTITY_HEADER_ILLU] = $company->getHeaderMedia()->getId();
}

// Main Illustration
if ($company->hasMainMedia() && ($company->getMainMedia()->hasId() || $company->getMainMedia()->hasSrc())) {
    $mainMedia = [];

    if ($company->getMainMedia()->isImage()) {
        $mainMedia[ACF_ID_COMPANY_IDENTITY_MAIN_ILLU_MEDIA_TYPE] = Media::ACF_IS_IMAGE;
        $mainMedia[ACF_ID_COMPANY_IDENTITY_MAIN_ILLU_MEDIA_IMAGE] = $company->getMainMedia()->getId();
    }

    if ($company->getMainMedia()->isVideo()) {
        $mainMedia[ACF_ID_COMPANY_IDENTITY_MAIN_ILLU_MEDIA_TYPE] = Media::ACF_IS_VIDEO;
        $mainMedia[ACF_ID_COMPANY_IDENTITY_MAIN_ILLU_MEDIA_VIDEO] = $company->getMainMedia()->getSrc();
    }

    $identity[ACF_ID_COMPANY_IDENTITY_MAIN_ILLU][ACF_ID_COMPANY_IDENTITY_MAIN_ILLU_MEDIA] = $mainMedia;
}
// -- /Illustrations

// Update IDENTITY
if (!empty($identity)) {
    update_field(ACF_ID_COMPANY_IDENTITY, $identity, $postId);
}

So here what do you think I should do? Use add_row() instead of arrays? Use update_sub_field() instead of update_field() on all $identity variable?

I admit that I don’t understand why this is a problem… Is it really impossible to take the problem the other way by forcing ACF to retrieve the data in the database that was just put in? Because they are present in the database, these data, and we can see them clearly in the backoffice, why we don’t retrieved them in the frontoffice via get_field()? I do not understand… :/