Reply To: ACF returning ID instead of an array and count of repeater instead of an array

• Almazka

• March 17, 2016 at 5:43 pm

Here’s my situation. What do we have:
Custom post type “items” which has the following field group “Item” with the one image type field. It should returns to array.
Also the current user has a group of fields “User dictionaries”.
My code is:

$args = array(
'posts_per_page' => '-1',
'post_type' => 'items',
);
$myitems = new WP_Query( $args );
if ( $myitems->have_posts() ) :
	while ( $myitems->have_posts() ) :
		$myitems->the_post();
		$image = ( get_field( 'image' ) ) ? get_field( 'image' ) : false;
		$dic = get_field( 'dictionaries', 'user_' . get_current_user_id() );
		//code...
	endwhile;
endif;
wp_reset_postdata();

In this case get_field for $image returns an array as it should be and get_field for $dic returns an array of the repeater field dictionaries of current user as it should be.

But my goal is to get on the archive page a certain kind of items.
For this I use the hook “posts_where” for modified request.

My code:

global $wpdb;
add_filter( 'posts_where' , 'my_where' );
function my_where( $where ){
	$where .= " AND wp_posts.post_title LIKE 'b%'";
	return $where;
}

All items are returned correctly. But get_field for $image now returns the ID of image and get_field for $dic now returns the digital value of the number of fields of the repeater.

Json file of the field groups is attached.

acf-export-2....json