If you’re trying to circumvent needing WP to load completely then you might want to take look at accessing the repeater field directly using get_option() instead of get_field(). To be 100% honest, I almost never use get_field() or most of the other functions built into ACF, basically because I want everything to work should ACF be deactivated for some reason…. of course if this is more than simple fields, like images or wysiwyg editors then it can be a lot more work. Here’s an example.
// the options name used by ACF to store the repeater
$repeater = 'options_'.$your_repeater_field_name;
// array of sub field names
$subfields = array(
'field_1' => 'text',
'field_2' => 'image',
'field_3 => 'wysywig'
);
// place to put the repeater values
$values = array();
$count = intval(get_option($repeater, 0));
for ($i=0; $i<$count, $i++) {
$value[] = array();
foreach ($subfields as $subfield => $type) {
$value[$subfield] = get_option($repeater.'_'.$i.'_'.$subfield, '');
switch($type) {
case 'image':
$value[$subfield] = wp_get_attachment_image_src(intval($value[$subfield]), 'full');
break;
case 'wysiwyg':
$value[$subfield] = apply_filters('the_content', $value[$subfield]);
break;
case 'text';
default:
// do nothing;
}
} // end foreach $subfield
$values[] = $value;
} // end for $i
