Reply To: Add rows to repeater

• John Huebner

• August 19, 2023 at 12:48 pm

You’re code is not easy to follow, but I think that your issue is that you are attempting to use [] to assign values directly to the array as you get them. To build a nested array you need to build the sub array and then add it to the main array all at once.

Here is a simple example

// initialize the array to hold the repeater value
$value = array();

// main repeater
while (have_rows('main_repeater')) {
  the_row();
  // start building this row from sub fields of the main repeater
  $row = array(
    // add fields of the main repeater
    'field_key' => get_sub_field('field_name')
  );
  // sub repeater
  if (have_rows('sub_repeater')) {
    // initialize the sub repeater array
    $sub_repeater = array();
    while(have_rows('sub_repeater')) {
      the_row();
      // add a row to sub repeater array
      $sub_repeater[] = array(
        // add fields from sub repeater
        'field_key' => get_sub_field('field_name')
      );
    } // end sub repeater while
    // add sub repeater to the current row
    $row['sub_field_repeater_key'] = $sub_repeater;
  } // end sub repeater if
  // add the new row to the main repeater
  $value[] = $row;
} // end main repeater while