Dynamic Select Field Choices Problem!

• downer

• January 16, 2014 at 9:13 am

Hello I have followed this link -> http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/tutorials/dynamically-populate-a-select-fields-choices/
Yet I can not create options for a select field. I am putting this code in the functions.php

	function my_acf_load_field( $field )
	{
		$field['choices'] = array();
	 
		$choices = get_field('text_fielder', 'option', false);
	 
		$choices = explode("\n", $choices);
	 
		$choices = array_map('trim', $choices);
	 
		if( is_array($choices) )
		{
			foreach( $choices as $choice )
			{
				$field['choices'][ $choice ] = $choice;
			}
		}
	 
	    return $field;
	}
	 
	add_filter('acf/load_field/name=select_fielder', 'my_acf_load_field');

I have tried putting field_keys instead of names yet still the select options are all empty… WP debug is not returning any errors also…

I have also tried these

$choices = get_field('text_fielder');

// Or

$choices = get_field('text_fielder', 'options', false);

Yet no luck 🙁

Any ideas… Thanks…

• Elliot

• January 17, 2014 at 9:44 am

Hi @downer

Can you please confirm that your filter is working correctly by adding this debug code to the start of the function:

echo '<pre>';
	print_r('test');
echo '</pre>';
die;

When you edit a post which contains this field, do you see the ‘test’ text on the screen?

Thanks
E

• downer

• January 18, 2014 at 2:22 am

Yes, I can see “test” on the screen…

• Elliot

• January 19, 2014 at 6:50 pm

Hi @downer

Your next step is to move through your filter code line by line and move the print_r statement through it and display the variable from the line above. This is called ‘debugging’ and will help you find the line of code which is not working.

Thanks
E