Reply To: Front-end form doesnt populate 'value' field anymore

• mattecoder

• January 21, 2016 at 2:22 am

Still not sure why the values aren’t loading but I solved the issue.

I was also, in conjunction with the code snippet above using the following ‘prepare_field’ hooks:

function my_acf_prepare( $field ) {
    
/* this was added to fix above */
    $field['value'] = htmlspecialchars($_GET["xxx"]);

/* this was always here */
    $field['readonly'] = true;

    return $field;
    
}

add_filter('acf/prepare_field/name=zzz', 'my_acf_prepare');

I just added a ‘value’ $field object into the prepare field code above that just assigns a value to the field during the prepare_field action instead of using ‘load_value’ from above in cojunction with the ‘prepare_field’ hook.

Hope this helps someone else.