Reply To: How to load Post Type fields with data from a remote API

• John Huebner

• August 2, 2021 at 11:52 am

You did not really answer my question about more detail.

What I am assuming is that

1. You load data into a field that can be selected
2. Based on this selection you add choices to a second field or multiple other fields for selection
3. Repeat if additional fields are dependent on the selection of the first field

I have some examples of doing this here https://github.com/Hube2/acf-dynamic-ajax-select-example

Basically what you are looking at is building a JavaScript/AJAX application that does the requests and population of choices in addition to adding PHP that loads the initial choices of the first field.

What I would do is that I would create a cusome post type to hold posts returned by the API and then I’d probably use a post object field to allow the user to select on of those posts rather than try to store all of this information in fields.