get_field not working with select

• deeve007

• January 14, 2014 at 1:34 pm

Hello,

I have a simple select field, user can only select one option.

In my template, if I use “the_field(‘field_name’)” then the correct selection is displayed.

But if I use “$withlink = get_field(‘field_name’)” and then echo out the variable, it will only display the first option in the select list, no matter which one is selected.

• Will

• January 14, 2014 at 4:24 pm

Hi @deeve007

I can’t reproduce that. Both versions output the selected item and the selected item only.

Do you see the incorrect value when you debug all fields?

<?php 
$fields = get_fields();
echo "<pre>";
print_r($fields);
echo "</pre>";
?>

When you edit the post again, is the first value selected or the one you thought you’d selected?

• deeve007

• January 15, 2014 at 7:14 am

I moved onto radio button, didn’t have time to debug with a very quick/low paying job. Radio button worked as expected with same code as used above.