Reply To: acf_get_value notice incorrect

• Michael85

• February 2, 2022 at 3:40 am

I did a bit more testing on my workaround and I noticed something unexpected with the return type.
When fetching by name a toggle (true/false) field returns a string "1" but doing the same with a key returns a bool true.

I am now using the following workaround:

add_filter('acf/pre_load_value', 'getFieldByName', 10, 3);
function getFieldByName(mixed $value, string|int $post_id, array $field): mixed
{
    if (!$field['key']) {
        $name = $field['name'];
        $fields = acf_get_local_store('fields');
            
        if ($fields && array_key_exists($name, $fields->aliases)) {
            return get_field($fields->aliases[$name], $post_id);
        }
    }

    return $value;
}