How to get acf user image in search results?

• aronblack

• February 13, 2014 at 3:46 pm

I’ve added a custom field to the wp user profile page to hold an image.
the image in acf returns the object

and when I call it in a template everything works great.
but
I cannot get the image to display in the search results page

here’s my snippet.
I call the featured image of posts, then I try calling to see if the user image exists…but thats part of the problem and then if no featured or user image then show the no logo image.

<?php if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) {?>
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_post_thumbnail('img200200') ?></a>

<?php } elseif ( get_field('field_525edf98cd7a2') ) { 
global $post;
$author_id = get_the_author_meta( 'ID' );
$author_badge = get_field('image_a_la_une', 'user_'. $author_id ); // image field, return type = "Image Object"
 ?>
<img src="<?php echo $author_badge['url']; ?>" alt="<?php echo $author_badge['alt']; ?>" />				
                        
<?php } else {?>

<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_url');?>/images/no-logo.jpg"></a>
<?php } ?>

any help would be much appreciated

• Elliot

• February 14, 2014 at 9:18 am

Hi @aronblack

Lets first debug your code:
1. Please remove global $post; – this is not needed
2. Debug $author_id
3. Debug $author_badge

You can debug like so:

<?php 

echo '<pre>';
	print_r( $author_badge );
echo '</pre>';
die; ?>

• aronblack

• February 14, 2014 at 12:58 pm

Hi Eliot,
Thank you for taking the time to help me with my problem
I tried what you suggested, iremoved the global $post and for both variables, author_badge and author_id
Both returned empty or blank.

I then did a var_dump on them
and for author_id the result was string(0) “”
and for author_badge the result was bool(false)

I use the same code on a static template outside the loop and it works as expected.

Is it because Im in the wp loop of trying to access acf custom user data?

• Elliot

• February 17, 2014 at 10:02 am

Hi @aronblack

Thanks for the info. The issue is due to your author ID variable being blank.

Perhaps you are using the wrong function to get the post’s author?

Thanks
E