User Field, How to retrieve author name from array

• Jayson

• September 21, 2014 at 9:38 am

Hello,

I am using the ‘User’ relationship field to define the author of text box. It works, but all the information is stored in an array.

var_dump:

array(11) { [“ID”]=> int(1) [“user_firstname”]=> string(4) “BONE” [“user_lastname”]=> string(8) “Creative” [“nickname”]=> string(9) “boneadmin” [“user_nicename”]=> string(9) “boneadmin” [“display_name”]=> string(9) “boneadmin” [“user_email”]=> string(23) “[email protected]” [“user_url”]=> string(0) “” [“user_registered”]=> string(19) “2014-08-15 03:41:30” [“user_description”]=> string(0) “” [“user_avatar”]=> string(236) ”

How do I retrieve the user id from this:

array(11) { [“ID”]=> int(1)

I know this is basic PHP … I am stumped!

Any assistance you can provide would be much appreciated!

Thanks!

• Jayson

• September 21, 2014 at 9:47 am

This works!

<?php
$author = get_field('acf_author'); 
echo $author = $author['ID'];
?>

• Shineforth

• February 25, 2015 at 2:50 am

Thanks this solved my problem.