Populate ACF fields programmatically

• altTcan

• September 1, 2018 at 1:46 am

Hi! I have a store with over 30 items, and I just added a bunch of custom fields for products. My question now is, is there a way to pro grammatically fill these fields without having to go product by product? My logic… create a CSV file, upload as a table in the database, and run a while loop with this:

while($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($con,$query){
update_field('field', $row['field'], $row['prod_id');
update_field('field', $row['field'], $row['prod_id');
update_field('field', $row['field'], $row['prod_id');
....
}

Is this possible without having a pre-existing values since these fields were created AFTER the products were placed in the shop?

• John Huebner

• September 2, 2018 at 12:08 am

Without having data already in the fields you should use the field keys and not the field names. Other than that your basic idea as I understand it should work.