Custom taxonomies are not fetched with acf

• asfar

• August 3, 2023 at 2:19 pm

I have an incomprehensible problem, which is with custom taxonomies, I created a custom taxonomy named “teams” using the following code:

function add_post_taxonomy() {

  $taxArray = array(
    array(
      "taxName" => 'Teams',
      "taxNameEn" =>'teams'
    ),
   
  );

  foreach ($taxArray as $tax) {
    $labels = array(
      "name" => __( "", "" ),
      "singular_name" => __( $tax['taxName'], "" ),
      "menu_name" => __( $tax['taxName'], "" ),
     
    );

    $args = array(
      "label" => __( $tax['taxName'], "" ),
      "labels" => $labels,
      "public" => true,
      "hierarchical" => true,
      "label" => $tax['taxName'],
      "show_ui" => true,
      "show_in_menu" => true,
      "show_in_nav_menus" => true,
      "show_admin_column" => false,
      "query_var" => true,
      "rewrite" => array( 'slug' => $tax['taxNameEn'], 'with_front' => true, ),
      "show_in_rest" => true,
      "rest_base" => $tax['taxNameEn'],
      "show_in_quick_edit" => true,
    );
    register_taxonomy( $tax['taxNameEn'], 'matches', $args );
  }
  
}
add_action( 'init', 'add_post_taxonomy' );

And I created a function to get the custom terms as follows:

function get_terms_for_acf_select() {
    $terms = get_terms(array('taxonomy' => 'teams', 'hide_empty' => false));
    $options = array();

    if (is_array($terms)) {
        foreach ($terms as $term) {
            if (is_object($term)) {
                $options[$term->term_id] = $term->term_id;
            }
        }
    }

    return $options;
}

The problem is when I use it like this to get options, I don’t get anything

 acf_add_local_field_group(array(
        'key' => 'group_team_data',
        'title' => 'team Data',
        'fields' => array(
                  array(
    'key' => 'field_team_info',
    'label' => 'teams',
    'name' => 'teams',
    'type' => 'select',
    'instructions' => 'Select the team',
    'choices' => get_terms_for_acf_select(),
    'return_format' => 'value', // Change 'label' to 'value'
),
    'location' => array(
            array(
                array(
                    'param' => 'post_type',
                    'operator' => '==',
                    'value' => 'matches', 
                ),
            ),
        ),
        'menu_order' => 0,
        'position' => 'normal',
        'style' => 'default',
        'label_placement' => 'top',
        'instruction_placement' => 'label',
    ));
}

Knowing that when I change teams to categories, it works normally

• John Huebner

• November 22, 2023 at 10:39 am

When is add_local_field_group called, before or after “init” when the taxonomy is added. I suspect that you are attempting to get the terms in the taxonomy before the taxonomy has been initialized.

function get_terms_for_acf_select() {
    $terms = get_terms(array('taxonomy' => 'teams', 'hide_empty' => false));
    if (is_wp_error($terms)) {
      die ('WP Error Getting Terms');
    }
    $options = array();

    if (is_array($terms)) {
        foreach ($terms as $term) {
            if (is_object($term)) {
                $options[$term->term_id] = $term->term_id;
            }
        }
    }

    return $options;
}