get_field return empty implementing API

• eddie

• March 19, 2021 at 11:33 pm

I created a new taxonomy “quote_category” and added 2 customs fields “category_image” and “category_color”.

trying to fetch and return these values inside my REST API but only get null.

[
{
“id”: 12,
“name”: “Fulfillment”,
“description”: “”,
“image”: null,
“color”: null
},

code:

function wl_quotecategory() {
	
	$terms = get_terms( array(
    'taxonomy' => 'quote_category',
    'hide_empty' => false,
    'fields' => 'all',
) );

	$data = [];
	$i = 0;

	foreach($terms as $term) {
	    // get the current taxonomy term
	    $image = get_field('category_image', $term->term_id);
	    print_r($image);
		$data[$i]['id'] = $term->term_id;
		$data[$i]['name'] = $term->name;
		$data[$i]['description'] = sanitize_text_field($term->description);
		$data[$i]['image'] = the_field('category_image', $term->term_id);
		$data[$i]['color'] = the_field('category_color', $term->term_id);

		$i++;
	}

	return $data;
}

• finnbalor

• March 20, 2021 at 9:07 pm

I’m creating a post via the REST API. On the frontend, get_field_object() returns empty until I go into wp-admin and save a value for an ACF field …

• eddie

• March 20, 2021 at 9:27 pm

it works for me with the POST type, I’m having problems with TEMRS.

yes, my term object `{
“id”: 12,
“name”: “Fulfillment”,
“description”: “”,
“image”: null,
“color”: null
}`

has an image and color value assigned from the wp-admin

any idea to solve?

• eddie

• March 20, 2021 at 9:56 pm

made it work using this code instead

		$cat_lookup_key = 'quote_category_'.$term->term_id;
		$data[$i]['image'] = get_field('category_image', $cat_lookup_key);
		$data[$i]['color'] = get_field('category_color', $cat_lookup_key);
		$data[$i]['priority'] = get_field('category_priority', $cat_lookup_key);

hope it helps someone else.