get image alt in flexible field

• kennethknudsen

• July 12, 2013 at 6:35 am

Hi!

i’m having a bit of truble getting this to work – i have read the docs on this site, tried the image field suggestion with the “get image data” on this page: http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/field-types/image/

i have read into the get_post_meta and only got an error in return :/

If you have any experience with getting the ALT text from an image in the flexible field – please let me know!

Thank you 🙂

• Matt

• July 12, 2013 at 3:23 pm

Hi Kenneth,

It depends how the Image field is setup. I prefer to have the image setup as the Image Object. You can select this when you create the field; return value.

Then it is as simple as:

$img = get_field('field_name'); // or use get_sub_field('field_name')
echo $img['alt'];

• Elliot

• July 12, 2013 at 4:37 pm

Hi @kennethknudsen

Your problem is that you are using the get_post_meta function instead of the ACF friendly get_field function.

Please use get_field to allow ACF to format the value correctly