Search by "user" field syntax?

• soulhuntre

• October 4, 2013 at 6:10 am

Hey all!

I have a custom post type using the ACF “user” field to allow you to select a target user (it is a todo task, so it already has an “author”).

I need to be able to do a get_posts for this if I know a user ID, but no syntax seems to work, and the user field is undocumented.

For example, this doesn’t work…

        $posts = get_posts(array(
            'numberposts' => -1,
            'post_type' => 'example_type',
            'meta_key' => 'target_user',
            'meta_value' => $current_user->ID
        ));

Any ideas?

• Elliot

• October 4, 2013 at 2:12 pm

Hi @soulhuntre

Your code looks good, make sure all the follow are correct:
1. $current_user->ID is valid data (print_r it to debug)
2. check postmeta table and find a value that your field has stored. What does the data look like. Is it a single ID? or is it an array?
3. print_r the result of $posts. What do you get?

• charlotte83

• October 4, 2013 at 10:26 pm

Hi Elliot,

I have almost the same question but using the Repeater Field.
The Repeater Field slug is “membres_du_groupe” and inside there is the user “membre”.

The issue is that the post_meta is like :

membres_du_groupe_0_membre
membres_du_groupe_1_membre
membres_du_groupe_2_membre ...

Could you help me with this?

Thanks very much

• charlotte83

• October 4, 2013 at 11:05 pm

My bad, just found out how to do this, if someone needs it, it is the example 5 :

http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/how-to/how-to-query-posts-filtered-by-custom-field-values/