Hi,
I use the Free version of ACF and it’s awesome, really.
My users are allowed from a front-end page to add professionnal experiences to thir profile. Each experience creates a php array and is itself added to a big array that regroups all of them.
Next, this array is saved in a custom field that got the type ‘text’.
It works pretty well for now, but i just want to know if it could cause issues in the database ?
I know that i could do that with the premium ACF version with repeater field but the person that charged me of the developpement doesn’t want to pay a plugin (do not judge lol).
Thanks all !
If you try to store a value that is an array in WP, WP will automatically serialize that array. When you get that value WP will automatically unserialize the array and it will not work as a text field.
If you want to store and array as a text value then you must manipulate the array before inserting it into the DB, for example by using json_encode()
