Adding an Image Field Programmically

• Wally

• July 9, 2013 at 12:14 am

I inherited a project from another developer who used your plug in to create custom fields. I need to add a new field to the bottom that allows the user to select an image for the page they are creating for a custom area of the page. I attempted to duplicate the creation of the MyCustomFields function and add it an the last Array item but it keeps coming up as a text input on the edit screen. Any ideas what I am missing here? My section starts with the ‘//Add page image’ comment

var $customFields =	array(
array( 
"name"			=> "ContactPerson-address",
"title"			=> "Contact Room Number & Building",
"description"	=> "Enter the room number and building of the page contact. Click <a href=\"http://www.engin.umich.edu/buildingabbreviations\" target=\"_blank\">here</a> for building abbreviations. {CONTACT_ADDRESS}",
"type"			=> "textinput",
"scope"			=>	array( "page" ),
"capability"	=> "edit_pages"
),
	
			//Add page image
array( 
"name"			=> "ContactPerson-image",
"title"			=> "Contact Image for Page",
"description"	=> "Select an image to use for the contact for this page",
"type"			=> "image",
"scope"			=>	array( "page" ),
"capability"	=> "edit_pages"
),

• emcniece

• July 9, 2013 at 8:21 am

Sample PHP export for an image field named “test”:

array (
	'key' => 'field_51db3a97ed096',
	'label' => 'test',
	'name' => 'test',
	'type' => 'image',
	'save_format' => 'object',
	'preview_size' => 'thumbnail',
	'library' => 'all',
),

I would be curious to hear about whether adding this array into your code produces an image field properly.

• Elliot

• July 9, 2013 at 10:12 am

Hi @Wally

Your code suggests that the previous developer has a custom function to register custom fields. That or their are using another plugin to ACF as some of the parameters are missing / different.

I think some debugging is required from your end to see how the fields are registered with ACF