Catchable fatal error – stdClass could not be converted to string

• faiswiz

• December 29, 2014 at 11:26 pm

Catchable fatal error: Object of class stdClass could not be converted to string in /advanced-custom-fields/core/api.php on line 23

function get_field_reference($field_name, $post_id ) {

// cache
$found = false;
—LINE-23 $cache = wp_cache_get( ‘field_reference/post_id=’ . $post_id . ‘/name=’ . $field_name, ‘acf’, false, $found );

if( $found )
{
return $cache;
}

// vars
$return = ”;

// get field key
if( is_numeric($post_id) )
{
$return = get_post_meta($post_id, ‘_’ . $field_name, true);
}
elseif( strpos($post_id, ‘user_’) !== false )
{
$temp_post_id = str_replace(‘user_’, ”, $post_id);
$return = get_user_meta($temp_post_id, ‘_’ . $field_name, true);
}
else
{
$return = get_option(‘_’ . $post_id . ‘_’ . $field_name);
}

// set cache
wp_cache_set( ‘field_reference/post_id=’ . $post_id . ‘/name=’ . $field_name, $return, ‘acf’ );

// return
return $return;
}

• James

• June 10, 2015 at 10:15 pm

Hi @faiswiz

You might not be using the right variable to hold the object, it is also important to ensure that the object is instantiated before calling the function.

For the correct usage of the function please refer to this article: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_cache_get