Change select choices based on user input

• elythria

• February 10, 2015 at 3:33 am

Hi,

I would like to add values to a select field based on costumer input.

e.g. I have a list of “topics”. If the user want’s to select a topic not available in the list, he doesn’t select anything and add a value to a custom text field called “topics_other”

In the future, this value added to topics_other should be available in the “topics” dropdown list.

Is this possible without querying the database?

Thanks a lot for your help

Best regards
Johanna

• James

• June 30, 2015 at 5:55 pm

Hi @elythria

Thank you for the question.

I believe you can make use of the acf/load_field filter to change the choices shown on the select field.

Please checkout the following tutorial on this here: http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/dynamically-populate-a-select-fields-choices/