Reply To: Show an entire specific field group in frontend

• aaronrobb

• November 13, 2015 at 7:37 am

Hey Everyone! Glad this conversation is expanding.
I’ve run into a new problem with this code.

It seems like I can’t add conditions to this code within the main If statement, to not display if empty.

Here’s the issue. I have a header tag above this field group that I want to remove if there are no entries. I just can’t seem to get the code right.
Here’s what I have now:

  $group_ID = 13249;
$fields = array();
$fields = apply_filters('acf/field_group/get_fields', $fields, $group_ID);

if( $fields )
{
echo '<div class="col-sm-6">';
echo '<h3>Rates:</h3>'; //------I want to remove this line if field is empty, but it keeps appearing
    echo '<ul class="list-unstyled">';
  foreach( $fields as $field_name => $field )
  {
    $value = get_field( $field['name'] );
    if ($field['choices']){
      $map = array(
       'yes' => '<i class="icon-ok"></i>'       
       );
      $value = $map[ $value ];
    } else {
    }
    if( $value && $value != 'no') {
      echo '<li>' . $field['label'] . '&nbsp;' . $value . '</li>';
  }
}
  echo '</ul>';
echo '</div>';
}

So i need that h3 tag to not show up. What i found is that even when empty, the $fields variable sees an array (just echoing $fields shows ‘array’). So there is no way to say if ’empty’.

Thoughts?