Own Field: How / where the values get saved?

• Michael1981

• January 23, 2014 at 9:40 am

Hi Everyone. 🙂

Iam in the process of creating my first own field and i need to know on how or where the actual values (fe. the text in my input) get saved to the db?

I downloaded the kit and i see the functions for create the field, update the field etc. but i did not know how or where the values get saved.

Any help would be great. 🙂

Thanks a lot.
Mike

• Elliot

• January 24, 2014 at 9:50 am

Hi @Michael1981

ACF will handle all the value save and load functionality, you can use the update_field filter to modify the value before save, but you don’t need to actually write any code to save it!

Just make sure that in your create_field code, you use the $field['name'] as the name attribute of your text field. ACF will do the rest.

Cheers
E