Reply To: Hook for AFC Sync?

• John Huebner

• May 24, 2019 at 1:27 am

I don’t know if this will help you at all. What I mean is, build your own hook that you can trigger some way, but I don’t know if you can do that either.

For example, I created a function that runs and imports field groups when a theme is activated that looks something like this.

<?php 
  
  // when the theme is switched to this one
  // add an action to admin_init to import groups
  add_action('after_switch_theme', 'theme_name_activation');
  function theme_name_activation() {
    add_action('admin_init', 'theme_name_acf_auto_import_groups');
  } // end function theme_name_acf_auto_import_groups
  
  function theme_name_acf_auto_import_groups() {
    // most of the following is taken directly from ACF
    // get all existing ACF field groups
    $groups = acf_get_field_groups();
    if (empty($groups)) {
      return;
    }
    $sync = array();
    foreach ($groups as $group) {
      $local = acf_maybe_get($group, 'local', false);
      if ($local !== 'json') {
        // field group is not loaded from json
        // skip this one
        continue;
      }
      if (!$group['ID']) {
        // only do import on groups loaded from DB
        $sync[$group['key']] = $group;
      }
    } // end foreach $group
    if (empty($sync)) {
      // no groups to sync
      return;
    }
    foreach ($sync as $key => $v) {
      if (acf_have_local_fields($key)) {
        // sync the fields
        $sync[$key]['fields'] = acf_get_local_fields($key);
      }
      // sync the group
      $field_group = acf_import_field_group($sync[$key]);
    } // end foreach sync
  } // end function theme_name_acf_auto_import_groups

If there is a hook that you can trigger the you could potentially use something similar