• samsmyth

• in reply to: Moving register_block_type out of functions.php
• February 6, 2023 at 4:00 am

Wow, this is awesome! Exactly what I was looking for. Cheers, Carl!

• samsmyth

• in reply to: Add script with ACF fields to footer within custom block
• February 27, 2022 at 1:18 am

No prob, but I just tried something that you may be able to advise on.

When I register the block in functions.php, I can use that wp_add_inline_script to execute code in the back end. But ACF doesn’t work in functions.php. Probably because it doesn’t know which block (or at least post) to pull this “slides_per_view” value from.

I think you need to target the post ID if you use ACF in functions.php, no? Which is why the last section of this doesn’t work as it does in my slider.php file.

acf_register_block_type(array(
      'name'              => 'slider',
      'title'             => __('Slider'),
      'description'       => __('A custom slider block.'),
      'render_template'   => 'inc/blocks/slider/slider.php',
      'category'          => 'formatting',
      'icon'         => 'images-alt2',
      'align'        => 'full',
      'enqueue_assets'   => function () {
        wp_enqueue_script('swiper', 'https://unpkg.com/swiper@8/swiper-bundle.min.js', array(), '1.8.1', true);

        $script = ‘var swiper = new Swiper(“.swiper”, 
        {slidesPerView:’.get_field(”slides_per_view”.’});’;
        
        wp_add_inline_script(‘swiper’, $script);
      }

No worries if you’re not sure. You’ve helped plenty.

• samsmyth

• in reply to: Add script with ACF fields to footer within custom block
• February 26, 2022 at 10:48 pm

Doh – dumb mistake on my part. Awesome, this works. Thanks.

One last thing. This doesn’t insert the script into the editor. Any way I can have it insert on the admin side as well? I’d love to have it work with the new full site editor.

• samsmyth

• in reply to: Add script with ACF fields to footer within custom block
• February 26, 2022 at 4:44 pm

Hi @hube2 , thanks for the help.

Your first comment unfortunately didn’t work – same results as before. For the wp_add_inline_script option, how do I add my php into that script?

The following code causes issues because I’m trying to put PHP in a JavaScript string (the $data parameter of wp_add_inline_script), I think:

<?php

wp_add_inline_script('swiper', '

var swiper = new Swiper(".swiper", {
      slidesPerView: <?php the_field("slides_per_view"); ?>
  });

')

?>

• samsmyth

• in reply to: Add script with ACF fields to footer within custom block
• February 23, 2022 at 10:18 pm

Any ideas?