How to retrieve Name from ACF User field type?

• gleenk

• June 18, 2015 at 7:33 pm

Hi there, I created a user field which generates a dropdown with all user. Great! Now, i need to print the choosen user name into my single.php template but I can’t do this. I found no documentation about it, only about getting values having selected ID (but I don’t have my choosen ID!). So, how to do that? 🙁

• timothy_h

• June 19, 2015 at 12:54 am

You can get the username by using something like:

$user_field = get_field('user_field_name');
if ( $user_field ) {
  $user_info = get_userdata( $user_field['ID'] );
  echo 'Username: ' . $user_info->user_login;
}

• gleenk

• June 19, 2015 at 5:50 pm

Great it works! Thank you Timothy!
I hope Elliot will put this into documentation 🙂