update_field not working on comments

• rafaelcmrj

• March 31, 2018 at 7:33 am

I have a custom field on comments for subscribing option but it doesn’t get populated using the upadte_field() method.

I am creating the comment dynamically and updating after I create it. The code looks like:

$insertedCommentID = wp_new_comment($data, true);

	if ($insertedCommentID) {
		update_field('field_5abe804d6db31', isset($_POST['subscribe']) && $_POST['subscribe'] == 'true' ? 1 : 0, $insertedCommentID);
	}

I create the comment using the wp_new_comment (that returns the comment id) and then update the field (using the field_key instead of the field name) but nothing happens. I’ve tried other fields (text fields, text area, etc), with no success.

• John Huebner

• April 3, 2018 at 3:27 am

$insertedCommentID

is just the comment ID. The value that ACF needs is "comment_{$insertedCommentID}"

https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/get-values-comment/, the same syntax as getting values needs to be used for updating.