Reply To: Select Field + Add your own option?

• amityweb

• October 15, 2022 at 11:46 am

I did add some code that allows them to choose from a list of values in the database and then populate a text field by clicking one of those values. That works like a tag cloud (although I am only allowing one entry), but I realised I dont have the value slug saved and hidden behind the scenes. If interested here is the code that could be adapted into a Select dropdown but it doesn’t save the slug. Maybe I can with further code:

function modify_project_field( $field )
{
	global $wpdb;

	$projects_array = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT DISTINCT meta_value FROM $wpdb->postmeta pm WHERE meta_key = 'my_project'",ARRAY_A);
	
	foreach($projects_array AS $project)
	{
		$projects[] = $project['meta_value'];
	}
	
	foreach($projects AS $project)
	{
		$project_links[] = '<a href="#" class="my-select-value" data-value="'.$project.'">'.$project.'</a>';
	}

	if($project_links)
	{
	    echo '<p>Enter a new value or choose from existing:<br/>';
	    echo implode(', ', $project_links).'</p>';
	    
	    echo "
	    <script>
	    jQuery('.my-select-value').on('click', function()
	    {
		    var field = jQuery('#acf-field_6346f63fec6c2');
			var value = jQuery(this).attr('data-value');
			field.val(value);
		});
		</script>
	    ";
	    
	}
}
add_action('acf/render_field/key=field_6346f63fec6c2', 'modify_project_field');