Dynamic select box field values

• eddr

• March 19, 2014 at 2:48 am

Hi

I’d like to know if I can populate a select box dynamically. I want to have an “author” field, with dynamically defined values

• Jonathan

• March 20, 2014 at 9:27 am

You could make use of the load_field filter:
http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/filters/acfload_field/

This should get you going!

function dynamic_author_dropdown( $field ){
	
	$authors = get_users(array(
		'role' => 'author'
	));
	
	if(!empty($authors)){
		foreach($authors as $author){
			$field['choices'][$author->ID] = $author->display_name;
		}
	}
 
    return $field;
}
 
// acf/load_field/key={$field_key} - filter for a specific field based on it's key name , CHANGE THIS TO YOUR FIELDS KEY!
add_filter('acf/load_field/key=field_508a263b40457', 'dynamic_author_dropdown');

• eddr

• March 27, 2014 at 1:53 pm

thanks! already figured it out and it works perfectly!