Fatal error: Call to undefined function the_field_return()

• uberspeck

• November 22, 2013 at 1:37 pm

I’ve inherited a WP project that uses v2.0.5 of ACF. I’m attempting to bring it up to date. After updating the plugin I’ve started to get the following error…

Fatal error: Call to undefined function the_field_return()

Googling for it returns no results and this forum doesn’t seem to return any either. Anyone have any suggestions? I’m new to ACF so I’m starting from scratch…

• Elliot

• November 22, 2013 at 5:00 pm

Hi @uberspeck

the_field_return is not a function known to ACF.
Please use get_field instead.

Visit the docs to see all available functions.

Thanks
E

• uberspeck

• November 23, 2013 at 2:59 am

Hi Elliot, thanks for the quick response! I dug through the archive of the site (before I updated ACF) and I came across the method in api.php. Maybe the previous developer added it? Maybe if I add it to functions.php that will take care of it?

// the field return
function the_field_return($field_name, $post_id = false)
{
	//echo 'field name: '.$field_name.', post id: '.$post_id;
	$value = get_field($field_name, $post_id);
	
	if(is_array($value))
	{
		$value = @implode(', ',$value);
	}
	
	return $value;
	
	
}

• Elliot

• November 24, 2013 at 2:56 pm

Hi @uberspeck

Yes, this looks like a custom function added to the plugin. I would move this to your theme functions.php file, or just use the standard get_field instead.

Thanks
E