Hi there,
I’m using the ACF fields Group (“team”), and within that are various fields for taxonomies selection (“director”, “artist” etc.).
My front-end output should be something like:
Director: term1, term2, term3
Artist: term1, term5, term33
Currently I’m using the taxonomy to return an object, then using print_r to display the entire Director array:
print_r($team['Director');
Output
Array
(
[0] => WP_Term Object
(
[term_id] => 157
[name] => John Doe
[slug] => john-doe
[term_group] => 0
[term_taxonomy_id] => 157
[taxonomy] => team
[description] =>
[parent] => 0
[count] => 2
[filter] => raw
)
[1] => WP_Term Object
(
[term_id] => 101
[name] => Franz Hansen
[slug] => franz-hansen
[term_group] => 0
[term_taxonomy_id] => 101
[taxonomy] => team
[description] =>
[parent] => 0
[count] => 2
[filter] => raw
)
[2] => WP_Term Object
(
[term_id] => 105
[name] => Jan Jansen
[slug] => janjansen
[term_group] => 0
[term_taxonomy_id] => 105
[taxonomy] => team
[description] =>
[parent] => 0
[count] => 2
[filter] => raw
)
)
How do I turn this into:
Director: John Doe, Franz Hansen, Jan Jansen
Thanks in advance!
There are many ways to accomplish this, here’s one that will also put a comma after each name, except the final name.
// Loop through all directors
foreach ($team['Director'] as $director) {
// Build an array of just the director names
$names[] = $director["name"];
}
// Display a comma separated list of the names
echo implode(", ", $names);
Hope that helps!
Hi @speakincode, thank you for your help!
I’ve been bashing my head at it for hours yesterday. Your code throws a fatal error:
Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Cannot use object of type WP_Term as array in ...
What eventually seemed to work was this. Don’t know if it’s very elegant PHP…
$directorArray = $team['Director'];
$commaArray = $director->name;
$commaArray = array();
foreach ($directorArray as $director){
$commaArray[] = '<span>'.$director->name.'</span>';
}
echo implode( ', ', $commaArray );
Whoops! Sorry, I mistook each $director in $team['Directors'] to be an array when each is actually an object. So our solutions are actually the same, except yours is using the proper syntax for a property on an object $director->name, where I was using the syntax for a property on an array $director['name']. I hope my mistake didn’t cost ya too much time, sorry about that.
I hope that clarifies though why one works now and the other threw an error. Also, your code looks just great, but you don’t need the $commaArray = $director->name; line.
I’m glad you got it worked out!
No worries, my bashing my head was before your solution popped up 🙂
I’m not too familiar with PHP and arrays/objects, so the solution was indeed to realise if I was working with arrays or objects, or objects inside arrays.
Thanks for helping out!
