Reply To: if (have_rows()) not working

• ms-studio

• November 4, 2014 at 11:15 pm

Same here!

I notice a recent behaviour change, that probably happened with the latest ACF Pro update.

On WordPress instances where I used Repeater Fields with this type of code:

if( have_rows('acf_repeater_field') ):
    while ( have_rows('acf_repeater_field') ) : the_row();
        // OUTPUT
    endwhile;
endif;

Until now, when no fields where present, there was no output.

What I see now: even when there are no fields, there’s an output – html markup is generated. If I dump the raw content of the acf_repeater_field, I see a NULL array.

So my quick fix is to surround the whole block of code with something like:

$acf_repeater_field = get_field('acf_repeater_field');
    if ( !empty( $acf_repeater_field ) ) :
    // ETC
endif;

Any explanation for this behavior? Is it indeed a change in ACF?