I've tried a bunch of different functions and approaches but so far I haven't been able to get it working. The goal is to add an Advanced Custom Field group to the backend of Wordpress with some PHP-code. In the best scenario we add the PHP-code to a method of a class.
public function create_group( $group_name ) {
if ( $this->does_group_already_exists( $group_name ) ) {
return false;
}
acf_add_local_field_group( array(
'key' => 'group_1',
'title' => 'My Group',
'fields' => array(
array(
'key' => 'field_1',
'label' => 'Sub Title',
'name' => 'sub_title',
'type' => 'text',
)
),
'location' => array(
array(
array(
'param' => 'post_type',
'operator' => '==',
'value' => 'post',
),
),
),
) );
return true;
}
Nothing gets added with the code above. I also tried adding it to functions.php
and it with a add_action()
function like so:
add_action( 'acf/init', array( $this, 'create_group' ) );
But again, no results.
Hope some one can share a working solution.
Today I finally discovered a solution for adding a ACF group to the backend dynamically with PHP-code.
It can be done by adding a new post directly with the acf-field-group
post type. Here is my implementation for those awesome people from the future that are interested:
public function create_form( $form_name ) {
$new_post = array(
'post_title' => $form_name,
'post_excerpt' => sanitize_title( $form_name ),
'post_name' => 'group_' . uniqid(),
'post_date' => date( 'Y-m-d H:i:s' ),
'comment_status' => 'closed',
'post_status' => 'publish',
'post_type' => 'acf-field-group',
);
$post_id = wp_insert_post( $new_post );
return $post_id;
}
Where $form_name
is the name of the ACF group. It works. And there was no need for using a specific hook. I could just call this method directly.