WordPress Advanced Custom field get_field_object('field_name') don't work

• funack

• September 18, 2013 at 5:02 am

I’m working with Advanced Custom Fields and Taxonomys in WordPress. I have a group of ACF called Person. Inside there’s several fields. One of them is called “hair_color”. So when I’m at the taxonomy-page.php the page shows the Tax info. I retreive the info this way correctly:

$fieldf = get_field(‘hair_color’, $taxonomy . ‘_’ . $term->term_id);
$field = get_field_object(‘field_51ac9d333d704’);
$pelo = $field[‘choices’][ $fieldf ];
But I have many environment (production, development), so is annoying to change ‘field_51ac9d333d704’ (field_key) that corresponds to the different databases.

In the documentation:

http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/functions/get_field_object/

Says that the info can be retreived: $field = get_field_object(‘hair_color’) (with the field_name as parameter) But it doesn’t works, only works this way $field = get_field_object(‘field_51ac9d333d704’);

Thanks in advance

• Nuro

• September 18, 2013 at 9:10 am

$field = get_field_object('hair_color');
 $value = get_field('hair_color');
 $label = $field['choices'][ $value ];

  echo '<p>' . $label . '</p>' ;

$label should display the hair color.

• funack

• September 18, 2013 at 8:45 pm

Hi,

Thank you, but I get an empty value.

a var_dump($field) is empty too.
This is the return:

array(17) { [“key”]=> string(16) “field_hair_color” [“label”]=> string(0) “” [“name”]=> string(10) “hair_color” [“type”]=> string(4) “text” [“order_no”]=> int(1) [“instructions”]=> string(0) “” [“required”]=> int(0) [“id”]=> string(20) “acf-field-hair_color” [“class”]=> string(4) “text” [“conditional_logic”]=> array(3) { [“status”]=> int(0) [“allorany”]=> string(3) “all” [“rules”]=> int(0) } [“default_value”]=> string(0) “” [“formatting”]=> string(4) “html” [“maxlength”]=> string(0) “” [“placeholder”]=> string(0) “” [“prepend”]=> string(0) “” [“append”]=> string(0) “” [“value”]=> bool(false) } 3

Thanks

• Nuro

• September 19, 2013 at 12:17 am

It looks like you are using a text field for the hair_color field rather than a select/option field.

So try any of these:

<?php 
 
$queried_object = get_queried_object(); 
$taxonomy = $queried_object->taxonomy;
$term_id = $queried_object->term_id;  

$hair_color = get_field('hair_color', $taxonomy . '_' . $term_id);

echo $hair_color;
 
?>

<?php
 
global $post;
 
$taxonomy = "someting";

$terms = get_the_terms($post->ID, $taxonomy);
 
if( !empty($terms) )
{
	$term = array_pop($terms);
 
	$custom_field = get_field('hair_color', $taxonomy . '_' . $term->term_id );
 
	// do something with $custom_field
}
 
?>

See this example for more info: http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/how-to/how-to-get-values-from-a-taxonomy-term/

If you do want to use a Radio Button field type and have them choose from a list of hair colors, then this might work too (I think):

<?php
$field = get_field_object('hair_color', $taxonomy . '_' . $term->term_id);
$value = get_field('hair_color');
$label = $field['choices'][ $value ];

  echo '<p>' . $label . '</p>' ;

Probably didn’t work before due to being text field rather than select/radio field and the $taxonomy value not being defined, although not sure…

• funack

• September 24, 2013 at 5:52 am

Ok, it works that way:`
$fieldf = get_field_object('hair_color', $taxonomy . '_' . $term->term_id);
$field = get_field('hair_color', $taxonomy . '_' . $term->term_id);
$value = $fieldf['choices'][ $field ];
echo $value`

Thank you so much for your help

• funack

• September 24, 2013 at 6:17 am

Sorry Nuro, I have another question.

I want to get all the values of the field ‘hair_color’.
Is in a generic page to make a combobox to use it as a filter, so I need all the values. I don’t have the term-id value.

Thanks in advance

• rajankumar

• April 15, 2015 at 9:48 pm

// vars
$queried_object = get_queried_object();
$taxonomy = $queried_object->taxonomy;
$term_id = $queried_object->term_id;

// load thumbnail for this taxonomy term (term object)
$thumbnail = get_field(‘thumbnail’, $queried_object);

// load thumbnail for this taxonomy term (term string)
$thumbnail = get_field(‘thumbnail’, $taxonomy . ‘_’ . $term_id);

Not working on my end