Reply To: Multiple values for checkbox choices

• John Huebner

• December 12, 2018 at 12:27 am

I would probably do something more complex with less code if you have many of these, or you plan on adding many more in the future, so that I can change the values and not look at the template again. I just did something recently where I do something similar. What I would do is have a function that returns an array of values.

function my_tool_choices() {
  $tools = array(
    'wordpress' => array(
      'label' => 'WordPress',
      'icon' => 'fa fa-wordpress',
      'url' => 'http://ws1/'
    ),
   'plugin a' => array(
      'label' => 'Pludin A',
      'icon' => 'fa fa-apple',
      'url' => 'http://ws2/'
    )
  )
  return $tools;
}

You can then add new tools to this as you need them. Then I would create an acf/load_field filter to populate the choices from this array. https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/acf-load_field/

add_filter('acf/load_field/name=my_tools', 'load_acf_tools_choices');
function load_acf_tools_choices($field) {
  $tools = my_tool_choices();
  $choices = array();
  foreach ($tools as $value => $tool) {
    $choices[$value] = $tool['label'];
  }
  $field['choices'] = $choices;
  return $field;
}

Then in the template I would do something like this

$tools = my_tool_choices();
$values = get_field('my_tools');
foreach ($values as $value) {
  ?><a href="<?php 
      echo $tools[$value]['url']; ?>" target="_blank"><i class="<?php 
      echo $tools[$value]['icon']; ?>"></i><?php 
      echo $tools[$value]['label']; ?></a><?php 
}