$post->meta_field returning count for repeater field

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  • hyperarts

  • May 2, 2015 at 3:58 pm

  So, we can do this –

  ACF text field – has some info – standard ways to access this are
  get_post_meta( $post->ID, ‘text_field’, true );
  or
  get_field( ‘text_field, $post-ID );
  or as of WP 3.5
  $post->text_field

  And this – $post->text_field is so clean. It seems to work great for text, text area, WYSIWYG and even checkboxes ( which are serialized data, so we get a multi dimentional array returned from $post->example_checkboxes ). But for a repeater field, we just get the count. $post->repeater_field // 2, or 3, however many rows we have in it.

  Anyone know a way around this? I tired $post->repeater[0][‘subfield’] but no luck.
  Thanks
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  • mediawerk

  • May 4, 2015 at 6:48 pm

  How is the data saved?

  The repeater field saves all it’s data in the wp_postmeta table. If your repeater field is called “gallery” and contains 2 sub fields called “image” and “description”, this would be the database structure of 2 rows of data:

  // meta_key meta_value

  gallery                      2                 // number of rows
  gallery_0_image              6                 // sub field value
  gallery_0_description        "some text"       // sub field value
  gallery_1_image              7                 // sub field value
  gallery_1_description        "some text"       // sub field value

  that means:
  try this:

  $post->repeater_0_subfield //for first row
  $post->repeater_1_subfield //for second row
  ...

  or create a foreach or a while loop: described here
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  • hyperarts

  • May 5, 2015 at 2:07 am

  Thanks mediawerk – that works!