Checking whether a checkbox is checked

• geoffmuskett

• April 12, 2015 at 4:59 am

I’m struggling with ACF checkboxes, I’m trying to check the array to see if ‘car’ has been ticked:

if( in_array( 'car', the_sub_field('tyres_available') ) )
{
    echo 'some html';
}

The checkbox is in a repeater field. ‘car’ is one of the checkbox options. If it’s ticked I want to echo out some html. At the moment it’s outputting the whole array for every checkbox that has been ticked in the field ‘tyres_available’.

Choices in my field ‘tyres_available’ are:
car : Car
truck : Truck
4×4 : 4×4
Agri : Agricultural
forkLift : Fork lift
bike : Motorbike
caravan : Caravan

Any ideas where am I going wrong?

Thanks

• James

• April 13, 2015 at 5:36 pm

Hi @geoffmuskett

Change the_sub_field() method and use get_sub_field() instead. the_sub_field() method will display the value whereas get_sub_field() method will get the value. Change your code to the following:

if( in_array( 'car', get_sub_field('tyres_available') ) ) {
    echo 'some html';
}

Check out the docs for more information: http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/get_sub_field/

• geoffmuskett

• April 13, 2015 at 6:16 pm

Thank you James!