Reply To: Retrieve ID instead of link from 'page_link' field-type

• ProxxiM

• October 23, 2021 at 6:26 am

Hi John,

Thanks, this does work.

However, unfortunately it doesn’t really solve my problem. I will elaborate a bit why.

We usually build sites where a global variable ($post_sets) is being assigned with all ACF metadata from a post, on single pages and in ‘the loop’. This is done with the function below function.

function get_post_options($post_id = null) {
	if (function_exists('get_fields')) :
		global $post_sets, $post;

		$post_sets = '';

		if (!is_numeric($post_id) && exists($post)):
			$post_id = $post->ID;
		endif;

		<strong>$post_sets = get_fields($post_id);</strong>

		// if $post_sets is 'false', we're assigning an empty array to it
		// that's more handy for error handling.
		if ($post_sets == false) {
			$post_sets = array();
		}

		return $post_sets;

	endif;
}
add_action( 'wp', 'get_post_options');
add_action( 'the_post', 'get_post_options');

If I would add false to the $post_sets = get_fields($post_id); line, I will lose all (very useful) formatting that’s being done by ACF. I even lose the field names of subfields.

I really only need to get rid of the formatting that’s being done by the page_link field. Am I wrong that various fields have a way of altering the formatting with a filter? Shouldn’t the page_link field offer such a thing as well?