How to get total number of checkboxes checked

• bkmacdaddy

• August 3, 2017 at 2:25 am

I can’t believe I haven’t been able to find this answer, and I feel like a novice for not being able to figure it out.

How would I get the total number of checkboxes checked? I need to be able to assign a class to my wrappers that will vary based on that total number, which I can do easily if I have the total.

Thanks in advance for any help!

• John Huebner

• August 3, 2017 at 9:24 am

Are we talking about a basic checkbox field?

$value = get_field('checkbox_field_name');
$count = count($value);

• bkmacdaddy

• August 3, 2017 at 10:41 pm

My bad. I forgot to mention (or realize) I was trying to get this to work on a custom taxonomy page, so I forgot to include get_queried_object();

Resolved now, thanks to my brain fart. Thanks for jogging my mind, John Huebner!

In case anyone else needs it, here’s my fixed code.

$queried_object = get_queried_object();
$seals = get_field('seals', $queried_object);
$countSeals = count($seals);