Can’t pick up a field created with Advanced Custom Fields

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I have a situation where:

  • I need to create a custom link per image on an image gallery. I did that via ACF. I have created a text field with HTML outputing so that hyperlinks get converted automatically.
  • The user will be populating that field with the link every time a new post is created.
  • I am using a custom post type (post-portfolio).
  • Each post has a cover image that will be a thumbnail when looking at the gallery.
  • Those links will later on be displayed as a link on the thumbnail of the image – not on the image’s lightbox or single-post page.
  • The gallery’s default behavior is to have two font-awesome icons acting as buttons/links: Lightbox view and single post permalink. I have now added a new font awesome link/button to have that text field acting as the link’s target.

The code on the functions.php:

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if(function_exists("register_field_group"))
{
    register_field_group(array (
        'id' => 'acf_sponsorer-lank',
        'title' => 'Sponsor hyperlänk',
        'fields' => array (
            array (
                'key' => 'field_56ea5ece13165',
                'label' => 'Sponsor länk till webbsida',
                'name' => 'sponsor_lank_till_webbsida',
                'type' => 'text',
                'instructions' => 'Skriv här webbsidan till sponsorn. Om det inte finns någon webbsida skriv endast #',
                'required' => 1,
                'default_value' => '',
                'placeholder' => '',
                'prepend' => '',
                'append' => '',
                'formatting' => 'html',
                'maxlength' => '',
            ),
        ),
        'location' => array (
            array (
                array (
                    'param' => 'post_type',
                    'operator' => '==',
                    'value' => 'post-portfolio',
                    'order_no' => 1,
                    'group_no' => 1,
                ),
            ),
        ),
        'options' => array (
            'position' => 'normal',
            'layout' => 'default',
            'hide_on_screen' => array (
            ),
        ),
        'menu_order' => 0,
    ));
}

The code on the gallery that shows all thumbnails: 

$variable = get_field('sponsor_lank_till_webbsida', $post->post-portfolio);

<div class="acts">
    <h3>'.get_the_title().'</h3>
    <a href="'.$url.'" title="'.get_the_title().'" class="icon-search" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery1]"><!----></a>
    <a href="'.the_field('sponsor_lank_till_webbsida', get_option('acf_sponsorer-lank')).'" class=" icon-h-link" target="_blank"><!----></a> <!-- the link where the problem is -->
    <a href="'.get_permalink().'" class=" icon-link"><!----></a>
</div>

A note on the last bit of code I wrote:

The <div class="acts"> is inside of PHP tags, so no need to open and close it there.

Problem

The custom field is showing up where on the custom post type page when the admin creates a new post, but the link on the gallery page has no target (the value that the user inserts on the post creation page).

I have been reading the documentation and trying so many times and so many ways but I cannot seem to make it work.

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