Just discovered ACF. It’s incredible! Thanks to the team 🙂
My project is to list cellular phone plans in table and list, accordingly to some caracteristics.
For some caracteristics, I would like to be able to use fields that could be multiple numbers from 1 to xxxx, but that could also be ‘unlimited’. As a example, to show data limit of the plans (in GB), which could be unlimited with some plans.
I will later use the content from this field to filter/sort the plans in a table, from 0 to unlimited (and the opposite).
What kind of field should I use?
A number field.
Assuming that you have a range of 1 to 9999 before unlimited and you want unlimited to be sorted as highest then you would represent unlimited with 10000.
At least that’s the way I’d do it.
Or if I was going to make it easy for the client I would have a radio field to select “unlimited” or “set limit” and then a number field to allow setting the limit with a max value. This number field would be conditional based on the radio field. Then I would create an acf/save_post action that would set this number field to 10000 if the radio field was set to unlimited making unseen by the user.
Great answer! Thanks 👍
May I ask what you would do about the frontend, to show unlimited instead of 10000 in WPDatables?
$value = get_field('field_name');
if ($value == 10000) {
$value = 'Unlimited';
}
echo $value;
or use https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/acf-format_value/
Thanks again!!
If I choose option to make the number field conditional based on the radio field, and I choose defaut value of 10 000, will that specific value be saved in database if unlimited is choosen (and number field hidden)?
No, fields that are hidden by conditional logic are not saved. This is why you need the filter if you choose to go that route.
