Using User Relationship Field to create User Specific Content

• sharksharkco

• July 4, 2015 at 1:24 am

Hi there, I’m attempting to use your wonderful plugin like so.

I have a custom post type: Client
Within the custom post type I have a ACF for User Relationship

The idea is while creating a client adding a user to the ACF will give those specified users access to view that page, I’m trying the code below to no avail, any insight would be greatly appreciated.

<?php if ( is_user_logged_in() ) { $userID = (int)get_field('associated_users'); $theuser = get_userdata($userID); if ($theuser->user_login == 0 ) { ?>

• Jonathan

• July 4, 2015 at 2:31 am

Hi @sharksharkco

Are you certain the value you get back from the user field is their ID?
I think it’s the wp_user object. https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_User

• sharksharkco

• July 6, 2015 at 11:44 pm

Thanks Jonathan, now I’m using the following. It allows logged in users to see but still every logged in user rather than the specified in associated_users. Any ideas?

<?php if ( is_user_logged_in() ) { $userID = (int)get_field('associated_users'); $current_user = wp_get_current_user(); if ($current_user->$userID == 0 ) { ?>

• Jonathan

• July 7, 2015 at 5:07 am

Hi @sharksharkco

Your checking needs to be a bit more complicated than this to take account for all situations. This should do the trick for you:

<?php 
	//Fetch users and set our boolean to true per default
	$users = get_field('associated_users');
	$show_content = true;
	if ( !is_user_logged_in() && $users) {
		//If the visitor isn't logged in and we have users they should not be able to see the content
		$show_content = false;
	}elseif( is_user_logged_in() && $users ){
		//Okay so they're logged in and we have users we need to check against
		$current_user = wp_get_current_user();
		//assume they should not see it (just in case)
		$show_content = false;
		foreach( $users as $user ){
			//Loop through each user array from the ACF field
			if( $user['ID'] == $current_user->ID ){
				//Alright they are in the clear! Lets set our boolean to true and break early!
				$show_content = true;
				break;
			}
			
		}
	}
 ?>

<?php if( $show_content ){ ?>

<!-- All content goes in here -->

<?php } ?>

• sharksharkco

• July 24, 2015 at 10:30 am

Awesome, that worked great!

Thank you!