https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/dynamically-populating-a-drop-down-custom-field Gravity Support Forums Topic: Dynamically populating a drop-down custom field en-US Sun, 19 Apr 2026 22:19:43 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/dynamically-populating-a-drop-down-custom-field#post-69442 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 21:53:15 +0000 Chris Hajer 69442@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>@seahoss, thanks for the update. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/dynamically-populating-a-drop-down-custom-field#post-69326 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 13:10:12 +0000 seahoss 69326@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>That worked! Great. Thank you. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/dynamically-populating-a-drop-down-custom-field#post-69295 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 10:42:31 +0000 Alex Cancado 69295@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>The issue is that custom fields are a little different than a regular drop down field, and the code needs to be slightly adjusted.<br /> Try the following:</p> <pre><code>add_filter(&#39;gform_pre_render_1&#39;, &#39;populate_posts&#39;); function populate_posts($form){ foreach($form[&#39;fields&#39;] as &amp;$field){ if($field[&#39;inputType&#39;] != &#39;select&#39; || strpos($field[&#39;cssClass&#39;], &#39;populate-posts&#39;) === false) continue; $posts = get_posts(&#39;numberposts=-1&amp;post_status=publish&amp;category_name=members&#39;); $choices = array(array(&#39;text&#39; =&gt; &#39;Select a member company&#39;, &#39;value&#39; =&gt; &#39; &#39;)); foreach($posts as $post){ $choices[] = array(&#39;text&#39; =&gt; $post-&gt;post_title, &#39;value&#39; =&gt; $post-&gt;post_title); } $field[&#39;choices&#39;] = $choices; } return $form; }</code></pre> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/dynamically-populating-a-drop-down-custom-field#post-69218 Thu, 02 Aug 2012 16:00:28 +0000 seahoss 69218@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hi, I'm having the same problem. I can get a typical drop-down field to populate with a custom post type, but not the custom-field drop down - it just won't populate. Please help, as this is how Wordpress can really be used like a relational database, by populating custom fields with ID's of custom post types. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/dynamically-populating-a-drop-down-custom-field#post-69040 Wed, 01 Aug 2012 16:50:06 +0000 Chris Hajer 69040@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Do you have a link to this online? And is that the actual code you are using to populate the drop down currently, the non-working code? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/dynamically-populating-a-drop-down-custom-field#post-68997 Wed, 01 Aug 2012 14:12:13 +0000 Shawn 68997@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I've snagged some code from this forum that helps me dynamically populate a category of posts into a drop down menu.</p> <p>However, If i try to use a custom field drop down menu instead of a regular drop down menu (using same specifications), the drop down will not dynamically populate.</p> <pre><code>/* Dynamic drop-down on /register ------------------------------------------------------ */ add_filter(&#39;gform_pre_render_1&#39;, &#39;populate_posts&#39;); function populate_posts($form){ foreach($form[&#39;fields&#39;] as &amp;$field){ if($field[&#39;type&#39;] != &#39;select&#39; || strpos($field[&#39;cssClass&#39;], &#39;populate-posts&#39;) === false) continue; $posts = get_posts(&#39;numberposts=-1&amp;post_status=publish&amp;category_name=members&#39;); $choices = array(array(&#39;text&#39; =&gt; &#39;Select a member company&#39;, &#39;value&#39; =&gt; &#39; &#39;)); foreach($posts as $post){ $choices[] = array(&#39;text&#39; =&gt; $post-&gt;post_title, &#39;value&#39; =&gt; $post-&gt;post_title); } $field[&#39;choices&#39;] = $choices; } return $form; }</code></pre> <p>Any ideas on what I can do differently with this script to ensure I can dynamically populate a custom field (drop down) ? </p>