• Jonathan

• in reply to: Update_field to automatically use field key
• July 19, 2013 at 1:08 am

I cant be sure but isn’t the reason why elliot uses a random field key string to avoid issues where the user has entered the same field name for multiple fields.. I don’t think there’s a check for duplicate field names when the user creates his fields and by using a random string instead ACF wont make the two clash.

This is just my speculations tho 🙂

• Jonathan

• in reply to: Custom field not showing on page – title displays fine
• July 19, 2013 at 1:05 am

Hi!

You should use the post types slug for the post_type argument.. which I’m guessing would be portfolio-item?

The reason why your ACF field is not being displayed is because you’re using the_field which tries to echo the result itself. In this case you’re already doing that so replace the_field with get_field and you should be golden!

• Jonathan

• in reply to: How to use ALT tags
• July 19, 2013 at 1:03 am

Hi!

You can do like this, where the $imageID is the ID of the image retrieved from ACF:

$alt_text = get_post_meta($imageID , '_wp_attachment_image_alt', true);

• Jonathan

• in reply to: How to display the number of the row of the repeater field ?
• July 19, 2013 at 1:01 am

Hi!

Since you’re probably outputting the repeaterfield in a while loop you can use a counter for the steps:

<?php
$i = 1;
while(has_sub_field('myrepeaterfield')):
?>
<p>Step <?php echo $i; ?></p>

<?php
$i++;
endwhile;
?>

• Jonathan

• in reply to: best search plugin for custom fields?
• July 18, 2013 at 6:03 pm

I’ll agree in saying that relevanssi is a good plugin for extended search in WP.. I do think however that this is very much a question for the relevanssi support forums rather than ACF 🙂

• Jonathan

• in reply to: How do you set default values on a set of posts in bulk?
• July 18, 2013 at 5:07 pm

Well that’s not entirely true.. It is out of the scope of ACF to automatically add default values to posts depending on category.. However if there’s no apparent reason to why the field_objects checkbox values are in one long string you could create a fork on the ACF repo on github and fix it yourself and hope for it to be included in the next version 🙂

• Jonathan

• in reply to: How do you set default values on a set of posts in bulk?
• July 18, 2013 at 5:00 pm

sounds wierd..

My recollection of the field object with a checkbox was an array with each value. But I haven’t had a look at it in some time..

I suppose you could copy the field from the ACF core and make your own addon where you put the values in an array instead so that you can use them as you please

• Jonathan

• in reply to: How do you set default values on a set of posts in bulk?
• July 18, 2013 at 4:32 pm

You say the default values are produced as a string.. I believe they’re like this: default1, default2, default3 etc.
If you need this as an array why not simply use php explode?

$myarray = explode(', ', $default_values);

If the string does not contain a space just remove that from the first parameter of the explode 🙂

• Jonathan

• in reply to: If a checkbox value is checked
• July 18, 2013 at 4:26 pm

Good morning,

So I’ve taken a look at your file and I can’t even find any reference to that which you are doing? Where in the code is this supposed to happen since there’s not anything there?

In any case. The markup was chaos so I took the liberty of cleaning it up a bit for you with proper indents and a missing end div-tag.
http://pastebin.com/PdJ6GAb2

• Jonathan

• in reply to: If a checkbox value is checked
• July 18, 2013 at 12:24 am

As roberto says.. you need to put this inside php tags for the code to run.. or it will just be treated as a regular string!

This applies to everything that’s not HTML or a string.

• Jonathan

• in reply to: If a checkbox value is checked
• July 17, 2013 at 11:20 pm

the do this inside the loop but outside any if statements:

print_r(get_field('stock'));

And post the result here

• Jonathan

• in reply to: If a checkbox value is checked
• July 17, 2013 at 11:15 pm

<?php 
if(in_array('In Stock', get_field('stock'))){

}else if(in_array('Forthcoming', get_field('stock'))){

}else if{in_array('Out of Stock', get_field('stock')){

}else{
No selected
}

?>

This should work then according to http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/field-types/checkbox/
which I assume works the same as radiobuttons..

• Jonathan

• in reply to: How do you set default values on a set of posts in bulk?
• July 17, 2013 at 10:54 pm

Great to hear 🙂 Let us know

• Jonathan

• in reply to: If a checkbox value is checked
• July 17, 2013 at 10:49 pm

Okay, It’d be much easier to help you if we could actually see the whole code in context 🙂

• Jonathan

• in reply to: How do you set default values on a set of posts in bulk?
• July 17, 2013 at 10:48 pm

Nc, Ic (I see) .. hoho..

Then I suppose it’s a bit more complicated.. so dynamic that you can’t even retrieve a specific field from the ACF interface?

With get_field_object you should be able to retrieve the specific checkbox with it’s values if that’s what you need.

• Jonathan

• in reply to: Field data not appearing in page
• July 17, 2013 at 8:03 pm

Ah! We’ll it seems your wp_query that comes after the regular loop overwrites the post object with this: $wp_query->the_post();

You can try putting wp_reset_postdata(); right after the endwhile for that loop.. If that does not work try putting the value in a variable inside the regular loop that comes before the new wp_query and then access the variable where you need it 🙂

• Jonathan

• in reply to: If a checkbox value is checked
• July 17, 2013 at 6:03 pm

Isn’t it so that when jut one checkbox has been checked the return is not an array but rather just a string.. So if you know that your user will always just check one (if so Id use radiobuttons instead) you should just check it like a regular string..

<?php if ('in_stock' == get_field('stock')) { ?>   

STUFF HERE

<?php } ?>

• Jonathan

• in reply to: Field data not appearing in page
• July 17, 2013 at 5:58 pm

hi!

Is it uni-title or uni_title? Make sure those match since you’ve written both in your description..

It should not matter what template you’re using it on, but I guess that depending on where in the template you use it you might need to provide the post id as well.. try this:

<?php global $post; ?>
<h3><?php the_field('uni_title', $post->ID); ?></h3>

• Jonathan

• in reply to: How do you set default values on a set of posts in bulk?
• July 17, 2013 at 5:51 pm

Hi NC,

Since you’ve set the checkbox default value yourself when creating the ACF field you don’t really need access to the array..

If the value is just from one checkbox it will be saved as a string (if I remember correctly) and you can just manually write that out as the info to be saved without accessing the checkbox actual values.. Since it’s the same value as for the default value when ACF loads it it will recognize it as the default being checked while in reality you put it in there manually 🙂