How to update_field with image url from external json

• planbjz

• November 27, 2021 at 3:12 pm

Hello,

I’m very new to ACF. I am building a real estate website and I am pulling properties in from an external json url. I am able to create text fields in ACF and populate them using the code below:

$field_key = "field_619f0b91770a7";
$jmedia = $brewery->Media[0]->MediaURL;
update_field( $field_key, $jmedia, $inserted_brewery );

My issue is…
In the json images are url’s. If I create an image field in ACF if will not accept the URL. If I create a text or url in ACF then gallery/slider widgets in Elementor do not recognize it.

How do I assign an url to the image field?

Thanks!

• jarvis

• November 29, 2021 at 4:20 am

Hi @planbjz

I had a similar issue before and came across this gem Programmatically Add Images to Media Library

May need a little tweaking but certainly worked for my needs.