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July 1, 2019 at 12:34 pm

Found the issue – If you have ACF plugin installed (which I do) then ACF by default removes the “Custom Fields” option from pages and posts because it assumes you want to use ACF instead. To re-enable this feature you have to add this code snippet to the functions.php file:

add_filter(‘acf/settings/remove_wp_meta_box’, ‘__return_false’);

That’s it – it works. NOW it see what you are talking about.

So I will need to add the 3 new custom fields to every event page I have setup. There is no way to just define them once, and have them added to every Event setup page automatically?

Thanks – Mark

July 1, 2019 at 3:06 pm

So I created 3 new custom fields into a group using ACF. They show up in their own section on the Event setup page (nice). Now in the back-end I need to pull those 3 custom field values. I was hoping they would be in the answers array (hanging off of the registration object) but no. How do I get to the 3 custom field values from my PHP?

July 3, 2019 at 10:48 am

Josh – So like I stated above I have added 3 new custom fields into a group using ACF. The now display and can be filled out the Event setup page. In my PHP I have the following code:
$addRegistrantArray[‘client_rep_id’] = get_field(“max_client_rep_id”);
$addRegistrantArray[‘product_id’] = get_field(“max_product_id”);
$addRegistrantArray[‘session_id’] = get_field(“max_session_id”);

The fields names are correct. But I am getting empty results back on all 3 of the get_field calls. I tried adding a post id to the get_field calls using:
get_the_id() but that’s coming back empty too.

Then I read something about being inside “the loop” vs being outside “the loop” so I tried this:
while (have_posts())
{
the_post();
$addRegistrantArray[‘client_rep_id’] = get_field(“max_client_rep_id”);
$addRegistrantArray[‘product_id’] = get_field(“max_product_id”);
$addRegistrantArray[‘session_id’] = get_field(“max_session_id”);
}

But that doesn’t work either. Can you tell me what’s missing, or what i am doing wrong?

Thanks – Mark

July 10, 2019 at 4:01 pm

Josh – Ok I have a EE_Event object now. It has a method called question_groups() that I think I call to get MY question group with my 3 custom fields. I tried passing in an array of 1 element (my question group name “MAX Required Fields”) to question_groups() but that error’ed out. Can you layout some code (or point me to some) that takes me from a EE_Event object, through my question group, down to the actual custom field answers please?

Much appreciated – Mark

July 10, 2019 at 4:49 pm

Sorry, let me clarify. I needed to add 3 custom fields to the Event Setup screen in the EE back-end. I already had ACF so I created a new question group in ACF and added the 3 custom fields. They now show up in a new section in Event Setup. Now I need to pull those field responses in my PHP code and do some processing with them. So I need to know how to get at the custom field values that are entered during Event Setup. You indicated above that it starts with a EE_Event object?