Get Field Group values(?) from Choices

• rmcg3

• August 30, 2023 at 5:18 pm

Hi, very new to ACF and I’m trying to get the values (i think) of the field group choices.

I have the choices:

example-student : Student
example-teacher : Teacher
example-principal : Principal

I want to get the second value of these choices (Student, Teacher, Principal) instead of the first.

I’ve tried a number of things looking at the get_field documentation but I can’t seem to get what I need.

Here’s my code:

 
$people= get_field('people');
   if (is_array($people) && count($people))
   {
     
      print('<h5>More information for...</h5>' . "\n" . '<ul>' . "\n");
      foreach ($people as $slug) 
      {
         print('   <li><a href="/' . $slug . '/" class="audience ' . $slug . '">' . 
                          ucwords(str_replace('-',' ', $slug)) . '</a></li>' . "\n");
      }
      print('</ul>' . "\n");
   }

This will get me a list of links with Example Student.. etc. instead of just Student .. etc.

Thanks,

• rmcg3

• August 31, 2023 at 2:51 pm

$field['choices']

gives me:

Array ( [example-student] => Student

[example-teacher]] => Teacher

[example-principal] => Principal

)

but

$label = $field['choices'][ $value ];

throws an exception and breaks the site

• rmcg3

• August 31, 2023 at 3:28 pm

Was able to figure this out:

$choice_field= get_field('my_field_name');

$field['choices'][$choice_field[0]]

Gives me what i need,

• rmcg3

• August 31, 2023 at 3:29 pm

$field = get_field_object('your_field_name');

is the field variable, forgot this.