Get label from User Custom Field

• KornDev

• July 30, 2013 at 11:04 am

Hey all,

I’m working on a front-end portion of the site where I need to display the field label and data. I’m successfully able to get the field and data, however, the label seems to be blank.

Here is what I’m doing:

First, I get the fields:
$user_meta = get_fields('user_'.$userid);

Then, I loop through each to get the ones I want. I’ve prefixed the ones I want with user_q_:

$questions = array();
foreach ($user_meta as $meta_name => $value):
   if(strpos($meta_name, 'user_q_') !== FALSE):
      $questions[$meta_name] = $value;
   endif;
endforeach;

So far so good, however, then I try to display the question labels and value and the label is blank:

<?php foreach($questions as $question => $value):
   $field = get_field_object($question, false, array('load_value' => false));
?>
<h3><?php echo $field['label']; ?></h3>
<div><?php echo $value; ?></div>
<?php endforeach; ?>

If I print out the $field object from above, here is the results for one of the values:
Array ( [key] => field_user_q_about [label] => [name] => user_q_about [type] => text [order_no] => 1 [instructions] => [required] => 0 [id] => acf-field-user_q_about [class] => text [conditional_logic] => Array ( [status] => 0 [allorany] => all [rules] => 0 ) [default_value] => [formatting] => html )

As you can see, the label value is blank.

Any thoughts, ideas, hints, things to look at? Am I doing something completely wrong?

Thanks for any advice!

• wells5609

• July 30, 2013 at 12:36 pm

@korndev

Try using get_field_objects() including the (user) ID, as in:

$user_meta = get_field_objects('user_' . $userID);

foreach($user_meta as $meta) :
  if (strpos($meta['name'], 'user_q_') !== FALSE) { ?>
    
    <h3><?php echo $meta['label']; ?></h3>
    <div><?php echo $meta['value']; ?></div>

<?php }
endforeach;

Notice the field key is returning the field’s name prefixed with “field_” – this means ACF can’t find the actual field object for the post (but it can find the meta_value).

• KornDev

• July 30, 2013 at 3:58 pm

@wells5609 Awesome! You lead me to try something that got me to the answer.

I can’t do exactly what you said cause I needed to do the get_fields call for some other data. But, your answer prompted me to try:

$field = get_field_object($question, 'user_'.$userid, array('load_value' => false));

Essentially adding in the user_ID# instead of passing in FALSE. This did the trick for me. Not sure why I didn’t try that before!

Thanks!