Get_Field Not Showing in Category Array

• toolboxwebdesign

• December 11, 2019 at 4:33 am

Hello, this seems like it should be really straightforward, but I can’t my field to populate. I am making a category navigation on my homepage, pulling in category names and I wanted to assign a font awesome icon through ACF. Easy right? I don’t know why its not working. Here is my code:

<?php

	$taxonomy     = 'product_cat';
	$orderby      = 'name';
	$show_count   = 0;      // 1 for yes, 0 for no
	$pad_counts   = 0;      // 1 for yes, 0 for no
	$hierarchical = 1;      // 1 for yes, 0 for no
	$title        = '';
	$empty        = 0;
	$category_icon  = get_field('category_icon');

	$args = array(
				 'taxonomy'     => $taxonomy,
				 'orderby'      => $orderby,
				 'show_count'   => $show_count,
				 'pad_counts'   => $pad_counts,
				 'hierarchical' => $hierarchical,
				 'title_li'     => $title,
				 'hide_empty'   => $empty,
	);
 $all_categories = get_categories( $args );
 foreach ($all_categories as $cat) {
		if($cat->category_parent == 0) {
				$category_id = $cat->term_id;

				echo '<div class="cat-box"><a href="'. get_term_link($cat->slug, 'product_cat') .'">'. $cat->name .
			  $category_icon;
				echo '</a></div>';

				$args2 = array(
								'taxonomy'     => $taxonomy,
								'child_of'     => 0,
								'parent'       => $category_id,
								'orderby'      => $orderby,
								'show_count'   => $show_count,
								'pad_counts'   => $pad_counts,
								'hierarchical' => $hierarchical,
								'title_li'     => $title,
								'hide_empty'   => $empty
				);
				$sub_cats = get_categories( $args2 );
				if($sub_cats) {
						foreach($sub_cats as $sub_category) {
								echo  $sub_category->name ;
						}
				}
		}
}
?>

Thank you!

• toolboxwebdesign

• December 11, 2019 at 6:38 am

Okay I figured it out. I trimmed off the subcategories, but my problem was that I was not associating category with the field and value. So the $cat was acting as the post id in the same way that a page will render an ACF value.

<?php

	$taxonomy     = 'product_cat';
	$orderby      = 'name';
	$show_count   = 0;      // 1 for yes, 0 for no
	$pad_counts   = 0;      // 1 for yes, 0 for no
	$hierarchical = 1;      // 1 for yes, 0 for no
	$title        = '';
	$empty        = 0;
	$post_id 			= 1;
	$args = array(
				 'taxonomy'     => $taxonomy,
				 'orderby'      => $orderby,
				 'show_count'   => $show_count,
				 'pad_counts'   => $pad_counts,
				 'hierarchical' => $hierarchical,
				 'title_li'     => $title,
				 'hide_empty'   => $empty,
	);
 $all_categories = get_categories( $args );
 foreach ($all_categories as $cat) {
		if($cat->category_parent == 0) {
				$category_id = $cat->term_id;
				$icon = get_field('category_icon', $cat);

				echo '<div class="cat-box"><a href="'. get_term_link($cat->slug, 'product_cat') .'">'. $cat->name;
			  echo '<div class="clear"></div>'. $icon;
				echo '</a></div>';
		}
}
?>

• greati

• March 24, 2020 at 11:42 pm

hello, @toolboxwebdesign an you help me with this issue i am having ?
https://support.advancedcustomfields.com/forums/topic/menu-children-category-field-in-other-language/