Use acf/load_field/ to get user email and populate ACF Field

• ZC Web

• May 12, 2018 at 9:16 am

I want acf/load_field/ to prepopulate an email field.

I have a field called ‘my_user_email’. I reference it here. Easy

add_filter('acf/load_field/name=my_user_email', 'my_acf_load_field');

Now I want to prepopulate the field which is blank for some since none of my users – there are 100 of them – have entered their emails. They just have WordPress emails assigned to their user accounts.

So ideally code would accomplish this: Get current user email (assigned via WP Users) set that email to the ACF ‘my_user_email’ field as a default value. so it’s already filled in.

something like this – which doesn’t work

function my_acf_load_field( $field ) {
	
	$current_id = get_current_user_id();
	$current_email = get_the_author_meta('user_email', $current_id);	

	$field['default_value'] = $current_email;
	return $field;  
}

this loads a blank – nothing

whereas
$field['default_value'] = $current_email;
will load something. I don’t want people to have to type their email here. Not good for users – my client will not be happy. Can’t it just prepopulate the field

• James

• May 13, 2018 at 5:18 am

Hi @zc-web

I am not certain your issue is clear enough. From your description, your code should work just fine.You need to ensure that the method is actually triggered and the $current_mail actually returns the expected value.

Hope this helps.