Dynamic population of select repeater prevents options from saving

• richard_3

• July 11, 2014 at 8:40 pm

Hi there

I couldn’t manage to find this issue logged on the forum already…

I have managed to dynamically populate a select field as per the tutorial here: http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/tutorials/dynamically-populate-a-select-fields-choices/

This was altered as the select choices needed to be the titles of certain pages (children of parent page ID 8)

// populate select repeater with restaurant names
 
    function my_acf_load_field( $field )
    {
        // reset choices
        $field['choices'] = array();

        // get restaurant locations (children of page id 8)
        $args = array(
            'post_type' => 'page',
            'post_parent' => 8,
            'orderby' => 'menu_order',
            'order' => 'ASC'
        );

        // The Query
        $the_query = new WP_Query( $args );

        // The Loop
        if ( $the_query->have_posts() ) {
            
            while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) {
                $the_query->the_post();
                $value = get_the_title();
                $label = get_the_title();
                $field['choices'][ $value ] = $label;
            }
        }
        /* Restore original Post Data */
        wp_reset_postdata();

        return $field;
    }
     
    // v4.0.0 and above
    add_filter('acf/load_field/name=restaurant_name', 'my_acf_load_field');

Populating the select fields works great, as I’d hoped. The problem now is that on the ‘Edit Field Group’ page, my choices in the ‘Locations’ and ‘Options’ boxes are no longer saving. Once I disable the above function, the options are back again.

Hope this makes sense, any help appreciated!

Rich

• connor

• April 9, 2015 at 4:35 am

This same thing is happening to me. Still searching through the forum to find solutions. Did you by chance ever get this working?