Custom Fields inside Articles News Module in Joomla 4

Question

I want to show some specific Custom Fields inside the Joomla 4 Articles News (mod_articles_news) module. I used to use this code in Joomla 3 :

<?php $customFields = FieldsHelper::getFields('com_content.article', $item, true);
    foreach ($customFields as $customField){
    $customFields[$customField->name] = $customField;
}?> 
<p><?php echo $customFields['name-of-the-custom-field']->value; ?></p>

but in Joomla 4 I am taking this error:

Class 'FieldsHelper' not found

Any help on this?

Answer 1

By adding this line

use Joomla\ Component\ Fields\ Administrator\ Helper\ FieldsHelper

before the close (?>) of

defined( '_JEXEC' )or die;

issue solved.

Answer 2

I did this little helper for getting the custom field values:

namespace Your\Component\Name\Administrator\Helper;

\defined('_JEXEC') or die;

use Joomla\Component\Fields\Administrator\Helper\FieldsHelper;

/**
 * Pro Fields Helper
 *
 * @since  __BUMP_VERSION__
 */
class ProFieldsHelper
{
    public $userKeyedCustomFields;

    function __construct(string $context, $item)
    {
        // Get field list
        $userCustomFields = FieldsHelper::getFields($context, $item, true);
        $this->userKeyedCustomFields = array_column($userCustomFields, null, 'name');
    }

    /**
     * Get the custom field value, or if empty the $default value
     */
    function getFieldValue(string $fieldName, string $default=null)
    {
        return $this->userKeyedCustomFields[$fieldName]->value ?? $default;
    }
}

So you can call it anywhere:

use Your\Component\Name\Administrator\Helper\ProFieldsHelper;
...
   // Get custom field 'telephone' for a user (defaults to '000000000')
   $user = Factory::getUser();
   $userCustomFields = new ProFieldsHelper('com_users.user', $user);
   $tel = $userCustomFields->getFieldValue('telephone', '000000000');

EDITED Applied changes proposed by @mickmackusa in his comment