Reply To: ACF Dynamically populate a select field’s choices, even when values are the same

• bboybeatle

• May 25, 2018 at 11:28 pm

Interesting. My labels will always be unique though, so I could switch them over.

NOPE – Just realised if I do that, the user on the backend is picking from a random list of numbers, it is the complete list though 🙂

So instead I think the solution is to populate that select box with JUST the label..

if ( have_rows( 'protein', 2564 ) ) {
        
        // while has rows
        while( have_rows('protein', 2564) ) {
            
            // instantiate row
            the_row();
            
            $type = get_sub_field('class', 2564);

            $value = get_sub_field('grams', 2564);
            $label = get_sub_field('food_name', 2564);

            // append to choices
            $field['choices'][ $label ] = $label;
            
        }
    }

(theres definitely a more streamline way of doing that)

…and then to use that label to find the matching ‘grams’ number back on the options page (ID=2564). The problem is ‘grams’ is not a subfield of the food name, but rather a sibling.

I’m sure there’s a solution here, just need to give it some thought.

Thanks for your help, sorry for the rambling 🙂