Convert an ACF Field Group from PHP to ACF-JSON

Use this snippet to convert legacy field groups from PHP to ACF-JSON files

I was working on a legacy project recently that had a multiple Advanced Custom Fields – field groups registered with PHP. It was difficult to edit these hard coded field groups so I decided it was best to switch these to JSON. I ran the snippet below once, it converts each of the field groups from PHP into JSON and save these JSON files to the acf-json directory.

      
        <?php
      
        // Get all the local field groups and loop through them for processing.
      
        $field_groups = acf_get_local_field_groups();
      
        foreach ( $field_groups as $group ) {
      
        	// If the field group has fields, load them into the 'fields' key. 
      
        	if ( acf_have_local_fields( $group['key'] ) ) {
      
        		$group['fields'] = acf_get_local_fields( $group['key'] );
      
        	}
      
        	// Write the group's JSON file. 
      
        	acf_write_json_field_group( $group );
      
        }

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Convert an ACF Field Group from PHP to ACF-JSON

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	<?php
	// Get all the local field groups and loop through them for processing.
	$field_groups = acf_get_local_field_groups();
	foreach ( $field_groups as $group ) {

	// If the field group has fields, load them into the 'fields' key.
	if ( acf_have_local_fields( $group['key'] ) ) {
	$group['fields'] = acf_get_local_fields( $group['key'] );
	}

	// Write the group's JSON file.
	acf_write_json_field_group( $group );
	}

Convert an ACF Field Group from PHP to ACF-JSON

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