I’ve added a “user” type field called “student”, and got it’s content in front page with <?php the_field(‘student’); ?>
I get all user information together (name, lastname, id, username, image, etc).
I would need to get only “username” separately in order to use it as variable.
My goal is use the username to prevent other user access the page information.
Something like:
if ($current_user->user_login == ‘USER_NAME_ACF_FIELD’) {
Thanks
I’m looking for similar info – I’d like authors to be able to select a user (so I used filed type “User”), and then I want to display the selected user’s name, and email address, and leave the rest of the array out. Something like this (if I was after the info from author, but I want to get this from selected user):
<?php
$author_id = get_the_author_meta( ‘first_name’);
echo $author_id;
$author_email = get_the_author_meta( ‘user_email’ );
echo $author_email;
?>
Any word?
I’m having the same issue. For some reason the field returned is not acting like a true Array. If I do echo get_field(‘user_name’) I get all of the values separated by a comma. If I do echo count($user_field) it shows 11 values.
However, when I try to pull out an array value I can’t get it to work. I’ve tried a bunch of stuff. I’m totally stuck and I can’t find any documentation on ACF about it.
Done! Thanks to the ACF support for this.
This is the way:
<?php
$user = get_field(‘YOUR_FIELD’);
echo $user[‘user_nicename’]; // displays nicename of user
?>
The user field returns an array which contains the following information:
+ KEY ++ DESCRIPTION +
ID User ID
user_firstname First Name
user_lastname Last Name
nickname Nick name
user_nicename Nice name
display_name .Display Name
user_email Email Address
user_url Web Address
user_registered Date Registered
user_description Description
thank you! it works for me. 🙂 i seem to be having success also using [‘user_avatar’].
