Reply To: Generate sub field from php – check if content already exists

• joel_s

• January 4, 2016 at 10:19 am

Could be interesting. But I still want to be able to check how many rows there are in a repetaer field and also check the values of the fields.

In my first post I used the wrong function (get_sub_field), and I checked a sub field.

if I use get_field_object on a repetaer field (which holds rows with sub fields):
$subfield = get_field_object('pagetype1_sidebar_items');

I get this repeater field object. But I thought it would contain the rows with the sub fields? If I var dump it I get:

array(18) {
  ["key"]=>
  string(29) "field_pagetype1_sidebar_items"
  ["label"]=>
  string(0) ""
  ["name"]=>
  string(23) "pagetype1_sidebar_items"
  ["_name"]=>
  string(23) "pagetype1_sidebar_items"
  ["type"]=>
  string(4) "text"
  ["order_no"]=>
  int(1)
  ["instructions"]=>
  string(0) ""
  ["required"]=>
  int(0)
  ["id"]=>
  string(33) "acf-field-pagetype1_sidebar_items"
  ["class"]=>
  string(4) "text"
  ["conditional_logic"]=>
  array(3) {
    ["status"]=>
    int(0)
    ["allorany"]=>
    string(3) "all"
    ["rules"]=>
    int(0)
  }
  ["default_value"]=>
  string(0) ""
  ["formatting"]=>
  string(4) "html"
  ["maxlength"]=>
  string(0) ""
  ["placeholder"]=>
  string(0) ""
  ["prepend"]=>
  string(0) ""
  ["append"]=>
  string(0) ""
  ["value"]=>
  bool(false)
}

It doesn’t contain the two rows with sub fields. So this doesn’t get me the info I need – I need to check if there are rows, and if so, check the values of the rows.