Get all field values

• uwe

• May 11, 2017 at 8:31 pm

Hi guys,

I have used ACF extensively in a site, with multiple nested fields in flexible contents and repeaters.
Now I need to populate a search index with my data. So what I want is a list of all field values in a given post, however deeply they’re nested, and I want to filter for text values (only field types ‘text’, ‘textarea’ and ‘wysiwyg’). Also, I’d like to do it generically without knowing the field names and group names.

How would I do that?
I’ve tried get_fields() which gives me everything except the values for sub fields.
Then I’ve tried get_field_object() in a loop for each field, but again no values for sub fields.
Then I’ve tried a direct $wpdb search in the post_meta table, but the field ID doesn’t seem to match the meta_id column in post_meta.

How do I get every field value filtered by type?

Thanks!

• bosoxbill

• May 27, 2017 at 12:10 am

Have you tried using the get_field_objects()?

if you create a page with just the following code for the output, you can see array values for all the fields:

$fields = get_field_objects($post_id);

echo '<pre>';
	print_r($fields);
echo '</pre>';

You should be able to get the information you need from there.

• James

• May 29, 2017 at 4:14 am

Hi @uwe

Thanks for reaching out to us.

Unfortunately, there is currently no method to load all the sub_field values from a page using the plugins API.

You would to implement some custom to check if the item is a repeater field.

I’ll mark this as a feature request for the developer to take a look at when he has time.

• uwe

• May 29, 2017 at 11:01 pm

@bosoxbill
I have, but that only gets me the values for the first level of custom fields. The values for deeper nested fields are empty.

@James
Great, thank you!

• kevinch

• June 9, 2017 at 11:24 am

Hey guys, any update on this? I’m really in need of this feature that used to work on v4 with get_field_object(key) but is now linked to a specific post.

• James

• June 10, 2017 at 5:54 am

Hi @kevinch ,

I would recommend that you open a new ticket for your issue.

On the same, the get_field_object should work just fine with the field_key as documented herein.

https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/get_field_object/

You may have to share more on your implementation.