get_field call on user from functions.php is empty

• fountain

• October 25, 2017 at 2:09 am

Hello,

function showUserRights() {
    $user = wp_get_current_user();
     $user_id = $user->ID;
    
    // get the allowed cats from ACF 
     $cat_array =  get_field('allowed_cats', 'user_1', false);
    $cats = implode(",", $cat_arr);
    
    return 'User ID:'.$user_id.'Array:'.$cat_array;
}

Any idea why the array is empty ? I’ve hardcoded the user_id for testing…
Best

• James

• May 16, 2018 at 3:44 am

Hi @fountain

You code looks just fine.

You need to confirm the field name is correct and also do a var_dump of the cat_array variable to ensure that the correct values are returned.

Let me know how it goes.