Reply To: HowTo: build tables with acf and merged cells (colspan)

• nicmare

• June 17, 2015 at 7:16 pm

updated (better) version with prepend and append elements and support for regular text input fields and without extra function:

function make_cells($field){
	global $post, $posts;
	$i = 1; // variable counter, may reset during foreach
	$b = 1; // global counter, never resets
	$end = count($posts);
	echo "<td";
	foreach($posts as $key => $post) {
		$value = get_field($field);
		$valueobj = get_field_object($field);
		$nextvalue = "";
		if(isset($posts[$key+1]))
			$nextvalue = get_field($field,$posts[$key+1]->ID);
		if($nextvalue != $value){ 
			echo " colspan='".$i."'>";
			if(isset($valueobj["prepend"])) echo $valueobj["prepend"]." ";
			if(isset($valueobj["choices"])){
				if(is_array($value)){
					$newarray = [];
					foreach($value as $val){
						$newarray[] = $valueobj["choices"][$val];
					}
					echo implode(", ",$newarray);
				}else{
					echo $valueobj["choices"][$value];
				}
			}else{
				echo $value;
			}	
			if(isset($valueobj["append"])) echo " ".$valueobj["append"];
			$i=0; 
			if($b != $end) echo "</td><td";
		} 
		if($b == $end) echo "</td>";
		$i++;
		$b++;
	}
}