How to check if field group exists in ACF5/Pro

• tnchuntic

• September 25, 2014 at 4:10 pm

Hi Elliot / Anyone,

Is their a way to check if the field group is existing on ACF5? I did have a working code for ACF4 but when I migrated to ACF5 it is not working. I suspect that because of ACF5 have change its post type from “acf” to new db table.

See code below: (working in acf4)

if (!get_page_by_title('Field Group Name', OBJECT, 'acf')) :
        
// Load the ACF php
        require_once (dirname(__FILE__) . '/includes/ACF5/acf-custom-field-group.php');
    endif;

• tnchuntic

• October 2, 2014 at 2:50 pm

I have found this solution but it leads to another issue.

Read code below

class helper{
//helper function
 public static function is_field_group_exists($value, $type='title') {
        $exists = false;

        if ($field_groups = acf_get_field_groups()) {
            foreach ($field_groups as $field_group) {
                if ($field_group[$type] == $value) {
                    $exists = true;
                }
            }
        }
        return $exists;
    }
}

//use
if (!helper::is_field_group_exists('Field Group Title')) :
// load acf exported php
        require_once (dirname(__FILE__) . '/includes/' . $acf_version . '/acf-field-group-exported.php');
    endif;

Source: ACF5 field group exist

• Daron

• October 3, 2014 at 4:31 am

ACF stores field groups in the wp_posts table now. So you can use the post ID to check if it exists, or any other valid way to look for a post.

• tnchuntic

• October 3, 2014 at 9:21 am

Thanks Daron it did give me an idea.

Here what I come up with the idea.

function is_field_group_exists($value, $type='post_title') {
        $exists = false;
        if ($field_groups = get_posts(array('post_type'=>'acf-field-group'))) {
            foreach ($field_groups as $field_group) {
                if ($field_group->$type == $value) {
                    $exists = true;
                }
            }
        }
        return $exists;
    }

Anyone can use the function for checking if field group exist.