Unable to create field names with field_ in the name

• Phillip

• September 3, 2014 at 2:38 pm

Hey Elliot, after a frustrating hour, I managed to find an annoying bug / quirk in ACF5 Pro.

In the function – acf_is_field_key( $field_key = ” ) (in api-field)

‘if( substr($field_key, 0, 6) === ‘field_’ ) {‘

I named my field “field_definitions” so it assumed it was a field key and returned true, and couldn’t find the field as a result.

Is it possible to prevent people from naming their fields as field_ to avoid this issue?

Thanks,
Phill

• Elliot

• September 5, 2014 at 12:21 pm

Hi @phillip

That’s a really good point. Yes, I’ll add in some JS to prevent this when creating a field.

Thanks mate.

Cheers
E