Use table outside WP for dynamic dropdown

• darylcharm

• December 6, 2016 at 5:13 pm

Hi,

I am running a Laravel application and just integrated WordPress on it.

I want to use ACF for my custom tagging module.

For example, in my Laravel application, I have a “teams” table:
– team Apple
– team Banana
– team Chocolate

and in my WordPress posts, using ACF, i want to be able to call the “teams” table. for my dynamic ACF dropdown.

is this possible?

• James

• December 7, 2016 at 4:45 pm

Hi @darylcharm

I believe that’s possible. But you need to get the teams data by using raw SQL code. This page should give you more idea about it: https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/dynamically-populate-a-select-fields-choices/, https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/wpdb.

I hope this helps 🙂

• darylcharm

• December 7, 2016 at 8:31 pm

oh wow! thanks! i got it to work. appreciate your help!