Reply To: Dropdown value saved but not loaded back

• James

• December 22, 2016 at 11:35 am

Hi @tazintosh

I’m not sure how you get the $databaseValue variable, but I believe you need to get the database value by using the get_field() function instead. For a single select field, you should be able to do it like this:

function my_acf_load_database_value($field){
    // get the current post
    global $post;
    
    // get the database value
    $db_value = get_field($field['name'], $post->ID, false);
    
    //set the choices
	$field['choices'][$db_value] = $db_value;
    
	return $field;
}
add_filter('acf/load_field/key=' . $imageSizeSelect, 'my_acf_load_field', 20, 1);

But is seems you are using the repeater field to contain the select fields. In this case, you can try the following code:

function my_acf_load_database_value($field){
    // get the current post
    global $post;
    
    // get the database value
    $db_value = get_field('repeater_field_name', $post->ID, false);
    
    // loop through the repeater value
    foreach( $db_value as $row ){
        
        // get the current row value
        $row_select_value = $row[$field['key']];
        
        // set the choices
        $field['choices'][$row_select_value] = $row_select_value;
    }
    
    // return
	return $field;
}
add_filter('acf/load_field/key=' . $imageSizeSelect, 'my_acf_load_field', 20, 1);

If that doesn’t work, could you please share the JSON export file of your field group so I can test it out on my installation?

Thanks 🙂