Reply To: Empty Array on 'acf/get_field_groups'

• tnchuntic

• October 2, 2014 at 12:07 pm

Hi Elliot & drs-nyc,

I did try to use the acf_get_field_groups() function to check if the field group exist it did work fine and it will check if the field is existing or not, but it will cause register_field_group() function not to work or it will skip/it will not load the field group. Also I did try your suggestion to add the acf_disable_local() function still not working.

Please see code below.

class helper{
//helper function
 public static function is_field_group_exists($value, $type='title') {
        $exists = false;

        if ($field_groups = acf_get_field_groups()) {
            foreach ($field_groups as $field_group) {
                if ($field_group[$type] == $value) {
                    $exists = true;
                }
            }
        }
        return $exists;
    }
}

//use
if (!helper::is_field_group_exists('Field Group Title')) :
// load acf exported php
        require_once (dirname(__FILE__) . '/includes/' . $acf_version . '/acf-field-group-exported.php');
    endif;