Backend Select fields from another custom field

• josemoreira

• May 9, 2018 at 8:04 pm

Let me try to explain what i’m trying to do.

i have a repeater (more than one actually) that will add “strings”/names.

on another field (a select) i want that the options would be the loop from the repeater field, but this to be done on the backend.

I don’t know if there is a simplier way, but what i want is that my client could add “Strings”/names/categories and then in another section, select from those “categories/names” and add other info.

How can this be done?

• John Huebner

• May 9, 2018 at 9:14 pm

Yes, you use this https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/dynamically-populate-a-select-fields-choices/ and you get the values from the repeater, for example on an options page.

• josemoreira

• May 9, 2018 at 9:43 pm

thanks.

my working code if anyone is interested:

//check select field from .json
add_filter('acf/load_field/key=field_5af2cece02f00', function( $field ){
     
    // options of the choices to add to select
    $field['choices'] = array();
     
    // dynamic data we want to populate with
		$bundles = get_field('gerir_marcas', 'option' );
		//$portfolio = get_field('item_portfolio','option');
 		//var_dump($bundles);
    foreach( $bundles as $bundle ){
        $field['choices'][$bundle['marca']] = $bundle['marca'];
    }
     
    // All done!
    return $field;
     
} );

• aldordar

• May 1, 2022 at 8:34 am

Hi @josemoreira !

I’m really interested in that solution. Could I see the full code?

Thanks a lot in advance 🙂