I have a field “myfield” that can have 5 different values. I would now like to display a specific icon for each of those values. So I would need a query that says:
– get value of “myfield”
– if value is “value1” -> show icon1
– if value is “value2” -> show icon2
– etc.
This can’t be too complicated, but I’m unable to figure that out. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you!
What type of field is it?
Oh, sorry. It’s field type “taxonomy”
So how are you going to decide what icon to show?
I personally would add a field to the taxonomy so that you can specify the icon when adding or editing the term and then I’d do something like.
$terms = get_field('taxonomy_field');
if ($terms) {
foreach ($terms as $term) {
echo get_field('icon_field', $term);
}
}
There would obviously need to be more code, but that’s the basics.
Thank you, but that’s not suitable. I’m doing a relaunch of a site that has already 300+ posts and in that case I would have to reopen them all. That’s what I would like to avoid. The taxonomy for instance is used for filtering purposes only. I hope I could use it for that purpose as well (I have another case like that in my website and finding the solution, I could get rid of 4-5 fields).
Also I made an error since it’s not an Icon in the meaning of “Icon font” but a graphic which has a distinct URL. So the logic would be:
If value is 1 then load div with url-to-graphic 1
else
If value is 2 then load div with url-to-graphic 2
etc.
Ah, the values are in plain text.
If you have a lot of terms I would use a switch, and it depends on if your field is returning 1 term or multiple temrs. Assuming that the field is returning multiple terms.
$terms = get_field('your-tax-field');
if ($terms) {
foreach ($terms as $term) {
switch ($term->term_id) { // could also be any term value
// cases would depend on above
case 1:
// output for case 1
break;
case 2:
// output for case 2
break;
case 3:
// output for case 3
break;
// etc...
} // end switch
} // end foreach term
} // end if terms
It’s only returning one specific term. I’ll try that out. Thank you very much!
However, in that minute I found a solution that was too simple … I named my graphics exactly like the term names and queried the term name to complete the URL. Like so:
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/img/tour-badges/<?php $term = get_field(‘tourcharakter’); if( $term ): ?><?php echo $term->name; ?><?php endif; ?>.png”>
The result is URL/term1.png // URL/term2.png etc. Sometimes you don’t manage to see the forest for all the trees that are in the way (like we say in Germany 😉
Thanks again!
