get_field_objects() returning false for Taxonomy query

• oppodeldoc

• December 15, 2014 at 12:46 pm

Hi, love the plugin and all the great development options that it gives us!

I’m not sure if this is a bug per se (maybe it’s a feature request) but I’m pretty sure the problem isn’t on my end. According to the docs for get_field_objects(), we should be able to pass in a taxonomy as we would other post/content types via the $post_id param:

$post_id: Specific post ID where your value was entered. Defaults to current post ID (not required). This can also be options / taxonomies / users / etc

And this documentation shows how we can use the API by passing a WP $term object.

I’m able to use functions to get single field values with this method, but I’m trying to use the get_field_objects() function to get all fields for a given taxonomy term, and this always returns false. Here’s a simplified version of what I’m trying to accomplish:

<?php 
// getting a term object
$term_obj = get_term( 3, ‘_custom_tax_slug' ); 

// this should return an array of ACF field objects, if I am understanding the docs
$acf = get_field_objects( $term_obj ); 

// this outputs bool(false) every time across all taxonomies
var_dump($acf);
?>

It’s possible that this just isn’t supported by the get_field_objects() function, but it seems as though it should be. If not, I can change this to a feature request but it’d be helpful to be clearer in the documentation that this isn’t possible.

Thanks for any help, and thank you very much for such a great plugin! -Matt

• James

• June 9, 2015 at 4:29 pm

Hi @oppodeldoc

The get_field_objects() function would not work in this scenario since you are trying to query some term objects.

I would recommend you make use of a for each loop to get the terms as shown below:

<?php 

$terms = get_field('taxonomy_field_name');

if( $terms ): ?>

	<ul>

	<?php foreach( $terms as $term ): ?>

		<h2><?php echo $term->name; ?></h2>
		<p><?php echo $term->description; ?></p>
		<a href="<?php echo get_term_link( $term ); ?>">View all '<?php echo $term->name; ?>' posts</a>

	<?php endforeach; ?>

	</ul>

<?php endif; ?>