translate choices of radio/select/checkbox fields

• RenaR

• June 23, 2016 at 4:15 am

How do I translate the choices for a raido/select/checkbox field.

I’ve translated the field_label, left the field_name the same in both languages.
Field type = select.
No I need to translate the choices
In English I have:
Short
medium
long

On the Hebrew translation should I translate this?
קצר
בינוני
ארוך
How does ACF know which translation is for which term. Is the order important here?

If I save this and look at a Hebrew post I still don’t see the translation, only the English.
How do I translate the choice correctly?

• James

• June 23, 2016 at 2:04 pm

Hi @renar

Could you please test the field object on the translated page by using this code:

echo "<pre>";
$select_object = get_field_object('select_field_name', 99);
var_dump($select_object);
echo "</pre>";

Where ’99’ is the ID of the post/page that has the custom field.

I believe you should add the choices in English like this:

short : Short
medium : Medium
long : Long

and like this in Hebrew:

short : קצר
medium : בינוני
long : ארוך

After that, you can get the label based on the value like the example on this page: https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/select/.

Thanks 🙂

• RenaR

• June 23, 2016 at 8:33 pm

I did var_dump and it returned:

array(22) {
  ["ID"]=>
  int(29)
  ["key"]=>
  string(19) "field_56d2d662eda3d"
  ["label"]=>
  string(11) "I work with"
  ["name"]=>
  string(11) "i_work_with"
  ["prefix"]=>
  string(0) ""
  ["type"]=>
  string(8) "checkbox"
  ["value"]=>
  array(2) {
    [0]=>
    string(7) "Couples"
    [1]=>
    string(3) "Men"
  }
  ["menu_order"]=>
  int(15)
  ["instructions"]=>
  string(0) ""
  ["required"]=>
  int(1)
  ["id"]=>
  string(0) ""
  ["class"]=>
  string(0) ""
  ["conditional_logic"]=>
  int(0)
  ["parent"]=>
  int(8)
  ["wrapper"]=>
  array(3) {
    ["width"]=>
    string(0) ""
    ["class"]=>
    string(0) ""
    ["id"]=>
    string(0) ""
  }
  ["_name"]=>
  string(11) "i_work_with"
  ["_input"]=>
  string(0) ""
  ["_valid"]=>
  int(1)
  ["choices"]=>
  array(9) {
    ["Children"]=>
    string(8) "Children"
    ["Adolescents"]=>
    string(11) "Adolescents"
    ["Adults"]=>
    string(6) "Adults"
    ["Couples"]=>
    string(7) "Couples"
    ["Families"]=>
    string(8) "Families"
    ["Men"]=>
    string(3) "Men"
    ["Women"]=>
    string(5) "Women"
    ["Geriatric"]=>
    string(9) "Geriatric"
    ["Other"]=>
    string(5) "Other"
  }
  ["default_value"]=>
  array(0) {
  }
  ["layout"]=>
  string(8) "vertical"
  ["toggle"]=>
  int(0)
}

The translation is working for the ‘edit post’ but when I view the page it still only shows the English.
How do I make it show the Hebrew on the hebrew page?

I’ve set the choice in the field to:
Children : יְלָדִים
Adolescents : מתבגר
Adults : מבוגרים
Couples : זוגות
Families : משפחות
Men : גברים
Women : נשים
Geriatric : גֵרִיאַטרִי
Other : אחר

I’m using the_field(‘i_work_with’);
Do I need to use something different for a translation language?
The field_name is the same in both languages…

• James

• June 24, 2016 at 12:07 pm

Hi @renar

The the_field() function will only show the value of the selected choice, not the label. Could you please check the var_dump() result on the Hebrew page? Please keep in mind that the translated page has a different ID than the original page. If the choices show the Hebrew label, then you can show the label like this:

<?php
$field = get_field_object('field_name');
$value = get_field('field_name');
$label = $field['choices'][ $value ];
?>

<p>Color: <?php echo $label; ?></p>

Please check the link I gave you before to learn more about it.

If it doesn’t show the Hebrew label, could you please var_dump() it without the ID of the page like the following?

echo "<pre>";
$select_object = get_field_object('select_field_name');
var_dump($select_object);
echo "</pre>";

If still no joy, I’m afraid you need to translate it by using WordPress localization functions. This page should give you more idea about it: https://codex.wordpress.org/I18n_for_WordPress_Developers.

Hope this helps 🙂

• RenaR

• June 27, 2016 at 6:01 pm

Thank you, this was helpful and I can get the Hebrew showing now.