Output Product or text value from select

• Jerry_skate

• October 9, 2020 at 7:58 pm

Hi! I need some guidance on how to output the selected values from a select on front.

I have two options, on is a text field with a populated html value, and the second one is a post_object for products where I want to display the thumb and the permalink.

So either output the the hmtl value or the products thumb and link.

so something like:

<div class="select populated">
choice 1 or choice 2
</div>

This is how its setup in ACF:

Return format on select set to both (array). Display output set to Post object.

'sub_fields' => array( 
	                   					array(
                        'key' => 'field_5f7efd35f2428',
                        'label' => 'Block one select type',
                        'name' => 'menu_item_type',
                        'type' => 'select',
                        'instructions' => '',
                        'required' => 0,
                        'conditional_logic' => 0,
                        'wrapper' => array(
                            'width' => '',
                            'class' => '',
                            'id' => '',
                        ),
                        'choices' => array(
                            'checkbox' => 'Checkbox',
                            'product' => 'Product',
                        ),
                        'default_value' => array(
                        ),
                        'allow_null' => 0,
                        'multiple' => 0,
                        'ui' => 0,
                        'ajax' => 0,
                        'return_format' => 'value',
                        'placeholder' => '',
                    ),
                    array(
                        'key' => 'field_5f7efde2f2429',
                        'label' => 'Checkbox',
                        'name' => 'checkboxfield',
                        'type' => 'text',
                        'instructions' => '',
                        'required' => 0,
                        'conditional_logic' => array(
                            array(
                                array(
                                    'field' => 'field_5f7efd35f2428',
                                    'operator' => '==',
                                    'value' => 'checkbox',
                                ),
                            ),
                        ),
                        'wrapper' => array(
                            'width' => '',
                            'class' => '',
                            'id' => '',
                        ),
                        'return_format' => 'array',
                        'default_value' => '<i class="fas fa-check font-size-60 white width-1em"></i>',
                    ),
                    array(
                        'key' => 'field_5f7f050f2d6e7',
                        'label' => 'Product',
                        'name' => 'pdp_product_one',
                        'type' => 'post_object',
                        'instructions' => '',
                        'required' => 0,
                        'conditional_logic' => array(
                            array(
                                array(
                                    'field' => 'field_5f7efd35f2428',
                                    'operator' => '==',
                                    'value' => 'product',
                                ),
                            ),
                        ),
                        'wrapper' => array(
                    'width' => '',
                    'class' => '',
                    'id' => '',
                ),
                'post_type' => array(
                    0 => 'product',
                ),
                'taxonomy' => array(
                ),
                'allow_null' => 1,
                'multiple' => 0,
                'return_format' => 'object',
                'ui' => 1,
				),        

Tried a bunch of different ways but no luck, so need to start over. Any help would be appreciated!

• John Huebner

• October 9, 2020 at 10:42 pm

$choice = get_field('menu_item_type');
if ($choice == 'checkbox') {
   // do something
} elseif ($choice == 'product') {
   // do something else
}

• Jerry_skate

• October 10, 2020 at 12:17 am

Thanks John. For the first one it would work, I can just add my html in the if statement.

But the second one – it has Post object set to products, so there I need to call the selected product. (link and thumb)

• John Huebner

• October 10, 2020 at 12:54 am

$choice = get_field('menu_item_type');
if ($choice == 'checkbox') {
   // do something
} elseif ($choice == 'product') {
   $product = get_field('pdp_product_one');
   // get an acf field from the product
   $some_value = get_field('some_field', $product->ID);
   // get something else from the product
   // see documentation for what you are using for products
}

• Jerry_skate

• October 12, 2020 at 8:25 pm

Thanks again, this doesnt work unfortunately. And I dont want an if or else statement, I want to output the data from the selected select fields which already has information (either text field or a post object).