Pre filling select options

Sometimes you want to have programmatic control over which options a user can choose in an ACF dropdown. To do so:

• Go to Grrr\Acf\SelectPrefiller
• Add a hook for a specific field name
• Add the options needed to load for that field name

Reasons & scenarios

The most common reasons to do this are:

• The values or labels for the options are generated programmatically
• The values and labels for the options are reused across multiple groups

Example scenarios where this applies are:

• Allowing the user to select a few global colours used in the front-end
• Allowing the user to select an asset, like video or icon

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See also:

• Dynamically populate a select field’s choices in the ACF documentation