ACF & WPML: Access options page in specific language

• Philex

• June 4, 2015 at 8:53 pm

Hi,

I am trying to access the content of ACF options fields in a specific language.

For example I have a field called “email_text”. This field is available in English and German.
Now I’d like to always get the German email_text value, irregardless of which language is currently active.

I’ve found this snippet in your docs, which I am currently using:

		$lang = $_POST['lang'];
		add_filter('acf/settings/default_language', 'my_acf_settings_default_language');
		function my_acf_settings_default_language( $language ) {
			if($lang == "") $lang = "de";
			return $lang;
		}

However it just returns an empty value, if I access the options page field like so right below the above function:
$message = get_field('email_text', 'options');

Do you guys know a solution to this?
Renaming the fields to en_email_text, de_email_text, etc. is not an option.

Thanks!

• Elliot

• June 10, 2015 at 10:07 am

Hi @philex

ACF uses the setting ‘current_language’ to modify the $post_id, not the ‘default_language’.

I believe it would be possible to simply use this code instead of the filter:
$message = get_field('email_text', 'options_de');

You can check your wp_options table to double check what the language code is used in the option_name.

Thanks
E