get_field returning wrong value

• Bobz

• February 20, 2015 at 9:22 pm

Hi,
I have a strange issue with getting data from options page.

I have 2 select fields
1. Country
2. Area

In my options page I have list of countries and areas for each country.
When user selects country, I get list of all areas for selected country from options page via AJAX, and then I populate second select.

When I try to get a list inside my AJAX function like:
$get_locations = get_field( ‘locations_area’, ‘options’ );

Instead of array of areas I get number: 7 (there are 7 areas).

Not sure why would this happen?

BR
Vlado

• Bobz

• February 20, 2015 at 9:33 pm

Looks like this started to happen after I have updated to ACF pro latest version.
– I include ACF inside theme folder
– As far I can see from DB, what I get returned as a value is field from options table ‘options_locations_area’
So looks like the function for getting repeater field values is not loaded fully at this point.

• John Huebner

• February 22, 2015 at 3:03 am

If I’m reading this right and your field is a repeater field then you either need to use http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/get_sub_field/ or the new http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/have_rows/

What you are getting is the number of sub field rows in the repeater

• Bobz

• March 4, 2015 at 1:40 am

Hi hume,

thanks for answer, but this was not the problem.
problem was when I used get_field to retrieve values, i got wrong values returned.
it is on my localhost but somehow it works now, not sure what happen.