Displaying layout fields retrieved via REST API

• roweenaweb

• November 26, 2019 at 8:08 am

I’m working on pulling blog posts from 1 site into another using the REST API, all works fine for pulling in the basics: title, excerpt and featured image, I’ve used a tutorial as a base and my code in php is below. My question is how to pull in ACF fields and display in the posts loop below? The acf fields are exposed and I can see them in the endpoint, I’m just not sure how to pull them in. I’ve put a sample of the json below also…

PHP TO DISPLAY

function get_posts_via_rest() {
// Initialize variable.
$allposts = ”;

// Enter the name of your blog here followed by /wp-json/wp/v2/posts and add filters like this one that limits the result to 2 posts.
$response = wp_remote_get( ‘https://www.sumydesigns.com/wp-json/wp/v2/posts?per_page=2’ );
// Exit if error.
if ( is_wp_error( $response ) ) {
return;
}
// Get the body.
$posts = json_decode( wp_remote_retrieve_body( $response ) );
// Exit if nothing is returned.
if ( empty( $posts ) ) {
return;
}
// If there are posts.
if ( ! empty( $posts ) ) {
// For each post.
foreach ( $posts as $post ) {
// Use print_r($post); to get the details of the post and all available fields
// Format the date.
$fordate = date( ‘n/j/Y’, strtotime( $post->modified ) );
// Show a linked title and post date.
$allposts .= ‘link ) . ‘” target=\”_blank\”>’ . esc_html( $post->title->rendered ) . ‘ ‘ . esc_html( $fordate ) . ‘<br />’;
}

return $allposts;
}
}
// Register as a shortcode to be used on the site.
add_shortcode( ‘sc_get_posts_via_rest’, ‘get_posts_via_rest’ );

JSON:

{
id: 38096,
date: “2019-11-25T09:56:14”,
date_gmt: “2019-11-25T09:56:14”,
guid: {
rendered: “link removed”
},
modified: “2019-11-25T09:56:14”,
modified_gmt: “2019-11-25T09:56:14”,
slug: “link-removed”,
status: “publish”,
type: “post”,
link: “link-removed”,
title: {
rendered: “link-removed”
},
content: {
rendered: “”,
protected: false
},
excerpt: {
rendered: “<p>Example excerpt content</p> “,
protected: false
},
author: 114,
featured_media: 38100,
comment_status: “open”,
ping_status: “open”,
sticky: false,
template: “”,
format: “standard”,
meta: [ ],
categories: [
12,
40
],
tags: [
20,
8
],
acf: {
acf_field_search_weight_override: “”,
acf_field_region_selection: “all”,
acf_field_stripped_down_options: “default”,
acf_option_off_featured_image_hero: true,
acf_option_donate_override: false,
acf_field_page_content: [
{
acf_fc_layout: “acf_layout_full_screen_media”,
acf_field_full_screen_media_content_type: “image”,
acf_field_full_screen_media_image: {},
acf_field_full_screen_media_video: “”,
acf_field_full_screen_media_optional_thumbnail: false,
acf_field_full_screen_media_gallery: false,
acf_field_full_screen_media_show_image_caption: true,
acf_field_full_screen_media_image_caption_position: “left”,
acf_field_full_screen_media_show_gallery_captions: false,
acf_field_remove_margin_bottom: false,
enable_region_selection: false,
acf_field_module_region_selection: “all”
},
{},
{
acf_fc_layout: “acf_layout_share_page”,
acf_field_share_page_social_

• roweenaweb

• November 26, 2019 at 10:20 pm

For anyone looking to get acf fields from rest api using php:

$fullcontent = $post->{‘acf’}->{‘acf_field_page_content’}[1]->{‘acf_field_text_block’};

🙂

• limitcracker

• June 1, 2020 at 4:29 am

Hi @roweenaweb

is it still so hard to get them? Maybe there is a way via the ACF API like get_field() ?
https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/get_field/

Br, John