Qtranslate shorttags in field labels

• harryhum

• February 28, 2014 at 12:32 pm

Hi All

I use ACF frontend posting in a multylanguage site with qtranslate.

I’m trying to get qtranslate shorttags to work in the labels of each custom field.

ex:
<!--:en-->Name<!--:--><!--:es-->Nombre<!--:-->

For now I have accomplished this by changing line 793 of acf.php

from

echo '<label for="' . $field['id'] . '">' . $field['label'] . $required_label . '</label>';

to
echo '<label for="' . $field['id'] . '">' . apply_filters('the_title',$field['label']) . $required_label . '</label>';

This will get the job done, but it’s very ugly and the code will be removed if the plugin is updated.

Can i do this in a better way, with a hook or filter maybe ?

Thanks.
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ACF Rules 🙂

• Elliot

• March 3, 2014 at 10:24 am

Hi @harryhum

Yes, you can use the acf/load_field filter. Docs available on the resources page.

Thanks
E

• harryhum

• March 6, 2014 at 10:36 am

Hi @Elliot

Thanks for your reply worked great.
Here is the code I used for anyone that may need it. This will get the qtranslate tags working in the field labels and field instructions of a front-end form.

function my_acf_load_field( $field )
{
    if(!is_admin()){
        $field['label']  =  apply_filters('the_title', $field['label']);
        $field['instructions']   =  apply_filters('the_title', $field['instructions']);
    }
    return $field;
}
add_filter('acf/load_field', 'my_acf_load_field');

I used is_admin()==false to make sure this only applies to the front-end forms. When used across the whole plug-in, the apply_filters functions seems to be called when acf prints the name of the field label in the wp-admin pages. Making the qtranslate tags invisible the first time you save the form and removing them completely if you save again.

With is_admin() the translations will be visible in the admin pages while editing forms but this is not an issue in my case.

Thanks again 🙂