Reply To: Different restrictions on different gallery fields

• John Huebner

• July 30, 2016 at 3:44 am

Using the filter hook you posted I did some investigation and I can say, yes, you can modify the query based on the acf field.

I want to explain how I figured this out for anyone that happens on this and is looking to figure other things out.

I have this function that I add to my functions.php file whenever I want to figure out what’s going on in a ajax call because you can’t use the standard php debugging techniques like echo and print_r(). What it does is it writes stuff to a file on the server so I can see what I want to see without interrupting the AJAX call and without writing miles of code to alter WP code the get an output.

function write_to_file($value) {
  // this function for testing & debuggin only
  // do not leave this function working on your site
  $file = dirname(__FILE__).'/__data.txt';
  $handle = fopen($file, 'a');
  ob_start();
  if (is_array($value) || is_object($value)) {
    print_r($value);
  } elseif (is_bool($value)) {
    var_dump($value);
  } else {
    echo $value;
  }
  echo "\r\n\r\n";
  fwrite($handle, ob_get_clean());
  fclose($handle);
}

So then what I did was set up a filter for ajax_query_attachments_args that looks like this.

function write_attachment_query_to_file($query=array()) {
  write_to_file($_POST);
  write_to_file($query);
  return $query;
}

and this is what I got

Array
(
    [action] => query-attachments
    [post_id] => 838
    [query] => Array
        (
            [post_mime_type] => image
            [orderby] => date
            [order] => DESC
            [posts_per_page] => 40
            [_acfuploader] => field_579b87ce88001
            [paged] => 1
        )

)

Array
(
    [post_mime_type] => image
    [orderby] => date
    [order] => DESC
    [posts_per_page] => 40
    [paged] => 1
    [post_type] => attachment
    [post_status] => inherit,private
)

the first array is the $_POST array and $_POST['query']['_acfuploader'] holds the field key for the image field that popped up the media library.

So, what you need to do is see if this value is set and then use that to determine how to modify the media query.