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Hi @hube2
Thanks aganin!
In the end, I made this sa a solution.
(very rough code though…)
function my_get_field_object_for_new_post($selector, $parent_selector = ''){
global $wpdb;
$where = '';
$parent_id = false;
$result_key = false;
if($parent_selector != ''){
$sql = "SELECT ID FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_excerpt = %s AND post_type = 'acf-field'";
$sql = $wpdb->prepare($sql, $parent_selector);
$result = $wpdb->get_row( $sql );
if((int)$result->ID > 0){
$parent_id = $result->ID;
}
else {
$sql = "SELECT ID FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_title = %s AND post_type = 'acf-field-group'";// can be group name
$sql = $wpdb->prepare($sql, $parent_selector);
$result = $wpdb->get_row( $sql );
if((int)$result->ID > 0){
$parent_id = $result->ID;
}
}
if($parent_id){
$where = " AND <code>post_parent</code> = " . $parent_id;
}
}
if($selector!=''){
$sql = "SELECT post_name FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_excerpt = %s AND post_type = 'acf-field'".$where;
$sql = $wpdb->prepare($sql, $selector);
$result = $wpdb->get_row( $sql );
if( $result->post_name ){
$result_key = $result->post_name;
}
}
return $result_key;
}
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