Reply To: get_field returns array, field type is text.

• Jonathan

• June 16, 2015 at 3:24 am

Hi @robmehew

Could you try using WordPress sanitize_text_field() function to do the sanitation just to make sure there’s nothing outside of ACF giving you this “error”. https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/sanitize_text_field

@tadywankenobi that is weird indeed. So the variable $new is definitely an array all the time? You haven’t declared $new somewhere else as well or use the same field_name for a different meta field on the same post? And the value you’ve set for the checkbox is “set”?

Also, you can try instead of a checkbox field to use a true/false field since that’s pretty much what you want.. It’ll return either true or false (1/0 .. duh 😉 ).