update_field for user data with array

• halo

• March 6, 2019 at 11:13 am

Hello,

I’ve been using ACF for years now and love your plugin.. and the doc’s are always very helpful.

However im stuck on something regarding updating a select field.

– I have the acf select field: delivery_partner.
– The field appears on the user profile and has array balues like:
7 => ‘darren’
10 => ‘steve’
– I can select the option in the user admin, the value is saved correctly and appears selected on page reload.

How do I update this field in php?
I tried:
$new = array(
‘value’ => 7,
‘label’ => ‘darren’,
);
update_field(‘delivery_partner’, $new, ‘user_120163’);

But now if I print_r the field I get:
‘

Array
(
[value] => Array
(
[value] => 7
[label] => darren
)

[label] => Array
(
[value] => darren
[label] => darren
)

)
‘

Can you see what im doing wrong?

thanks
Darren

• halo

• March 6, 2019 at 9:51 pm

For others stuck on this I have a solution.

I tried all sorts of combinations of (examples)
update_user_meta(36, 'delivery_partner', '');
or
update_field('delivery_partner', $a, 'user_36');

but nothing worked.. then I noticed that the issue is because my options are different key => values. ie:

'value'	=> 7,
'label'	=> 'darren'

what I need to do is just update the ‘value’ and the label automatically populates correctly… I tested several times.. really unexpected behaviour 🙂

So the solution is:
update_user_meta(36, 'delivery_partner', 13);
36 is the user id
‘delivery_partner’ is the field name
13 is the ‘value’

The result from
$g = get_field('delivery_partner', 'user_36');
is:
Array ( [value] => 7 [label] => darren )

However..
I also realised that this solution only works if the options have been created already. In my case I was using a function to dynamically populate the options on a user edit page.

This meant that if I had not yet visited the user’s admin page (like if im creating a new user), then the above solution wont work and you need to add both ‘value’ and ‘label’ directly with:

update_field('delivery_partner', $partner->ID, 'user_' . $user->ID);
Note that update_field adds both value and label by default in my case.