Reply To: acf add local field to flexible content

• John Huebner

• April 6, 2016 at 8:32 am

Sorry it took so long to get back to you. There were a few problems with your code, you have some extra nesting on arrays() is isn’t needed in places. Also I learned that if you’re adding fields using acf_add_local_field() that you need to add fields to a repeater, you can’t just add the repeater including the sub fields, what that means is that each individual field must be added separately.

this code works

  if( function_exists('acf_add_local_field_group') ) {
  
    acf_add_local_field_group(
      array (
        'key' => 'group_56ff5b11d1775',
        'title' => 'add component',
        'fields' => array (
          array (
            'key' => 'field_56ff5b1a77c75',
            'label' => 'flexible content',
            'name' => 'flexible_content',
            'type' => 'flexible_content',
            'instructions' => '',
            'wrapper' => array (
              'width' => '',
              'class' => '',
              'id' => '',
            ),
          'button_label' => 'Add Row',
          'min' => '',
          'max' => '',
          'layouts' => array (
            array (
              'key' => '56ff5b1a77c76',
              'name' => 'sample_label',
              'label' => 'sample label',
              'display' => 'block',
              'min' => '',
              'max' => '',
            ),
          ),
          ),
        ),
        'location' => array (
          array (
            array (
              'param' => 'post_type',
              'operator' => '==',
              'value' => 'post',
            ),
          ),
        ),
        'menu_order' => 0,
        'position' => 'normal',
        'style' => 'default',
        'label_placement' => 'top',
        'instruction_placement' => 'label',
        'hide_on_screen' => '',
        'active' => 1,
        'description' => '',
      )
    );
    
    acf_add_local_field(
      array (
        'key' => 'field_56ff5b1a77c79',
        'label' => 'Repeatable image with optional link',
        'name' => 'repeatable_imgs',
        'type' => 'repeater',
        'parent' => 'field_56ff5b1a77c75', //flex field key
        'parent_layout' => '56ff5b1a77c76', // layout key
        'row_min' => 0,
        'row_limit' => '',
        'layout' => 'table',
        'button_label' => 'Add image',
      )
    );
    
    acf_add_local_field(
      array (
      'key' => 'field_5237950f6c6e4',
      'label' => 'url',
      'name' => 'img_link_url',
      'type' => 'text',
      'parent' => 'field_56ff5b1a77c79',
      )
    );
  
  }