Select field has no "label" or "value"

• turtlemimi

• November 22, 2013 at 3:28 am

I want to output the associated label with a specific select value but doing a print_r on the field shows that [label] and [value] is empty.

The select field lives as one of many fields under a repeater field. The choices are URL : Name, so for example,

http://www.google.com : Google 
 http://www.yahoo.com : Yahoo

My code is as such:

$repeater = get_field('repeater_name');
if($repeater) {
  foreach($repeater as $r) {
    $select = $r['select_field'];
    $object = get_field_object($select);
    print_r($object);
  }
}

Doing a print_r outputs the following:

Array
(
    [key] => field_http://www.google.com
    [label] => 
    [name] => http://www.google.com
    [type] => text
    [order_no] => 1
    [instructions] => 
    [required] => 0
    [id] => acf-field-http://www.google.com
    [class] => text
    [conditional_logic] => Array
        (
            [status] => 0
            [allorany] => all
            [rules] => 0
        )

    [default_value] => 
    [formatting] => html
    [maxlength] => 
    [placeholder] => 
    [prepend] => 
    [append] => 
    [value] => 
)

I want to be able to output the label (Google) as well as the value (http://www.google.com)…

I hope this makes sense.

• Elliot

• November 22, 2013 at 4:41 pm

Hi @turtlemimi

There are a few issues with your code. Because the field is infact a sub field, you need to use the function get_sub_field_object:
http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/functions/get_sub_field_object/

To use that function you need to change your foreach loop to a while( has_sub_field ) loop.

The other issue with your code is that you are sending through the sub field value as the parameter to the get_sub_field function. You need to pass through the field_name, as per the docs

Thanks
E