Export ACF fields in your database?

  • Hi,

    I expect to put my ACF fields entries in a separate database, because the way wordpress handles it isn’t query friendly (I’m thinking about the future of my project already because I won’t be bottlenecked by low queries).

    I wonder then if your plugin can fit my needs for this very specific use case. Without having tested it, what I expected to do is the following:

    1 – Use your plugin in order to create a more horizontal database in which I’ll have in the same row all my mandotary fields (created with your plugin).
    2 – The next step will be to assign the same field key in ACF that was put in your plugin.
    3 – I’ll then hook into acf_update_value and acf_load_value in order to tells to ACF where to update and load values, replacing the default mechanism.
    4 – After all that being done, I need to query the results in order to display articles that matches $my_query_args.

    My question : do you think my project is doable? Do you provide a way to query the datas in this table, in a similar way that WordPress actually does?

    Regards.

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  • Plugin Author xnau webdesign

    (@xnau)

    While I’m not sure I fully understand what you want to accomplish, the plugin does have an API for creating custom interactions.

    One thing to consider is that ACF is based on WP posts, but Participants Database is it’s own separate database. If you are going to include data from ACF fields in a Participants Database record, you will need to have a way to identify which post to get that data from.

    The question that comes up for me is what is Participants Database storing? What does each record represent? It’s possible everything you want to do can be done with ACF and possibly custom post types alone.

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