Reply To: Automating Shortcodes to ACF conversion

• Tazintosh

• January 14, 2017 at 8:52 am

Hi again James

Some of my post have more than one before|after shortcode.
I’ve built a huge array of hundreds of comparisons that I’ll loop through, like this:

$BAcomparisonArray = array(
array(
	'postID'			=> 7651,
	'beforeImage'		=> 'photo-7D-IMG_2201-RAW.jpg',
	'afterImage'		=> 'photo-7D-IMG_2201.jpg'
),
array(
	'postID'			=> 7729,
	'beforeImage'		=> 'photo-7D-IMG_2198-RAW.jpg',
	'afterImage'		=> 'photo-7D-IMG_2198.jpg'
),
array(
	'postID'			=> 7729,
	'beforeImage'		=> 'photo-7D-IMG_2201-RAW.jpg',
	'afterImage'		=> 'photo-7D-IMG_2201.jpg'
),
array(
	'postID'			=> 7995,
	'beforeImage'		=> 'photo-7D-IMG_2519-RAW.jpg',
	'afterImage'		=> 'photo-7D-IMG_2519.jpg'
),
array(
	'postID'			=> 7995,
	'beforeImage'		=> 'photo-7D-IMG_2822-RAW.jpg',
	'afterImage'		=> 'photo-7D-IMG_2822.jpg'
),
array(
	'postID'			=> 8008,
	'beforeImage'		=> 'photo-7D-IMG_2519-RAW.jpg',
	'afterImage'		=> 'photo-7D-IMG_2519.jpg'
));

But as you can see, for the posts where I have multiple before|after, the subarray appear multiple times with the same ID.

With my actual code (see below), only one before|after is added to my flexible content, while I would obviously need as many as necessary:

$value = array(
	array('before_image' => $before_image, 'after_image' => $after_image, 'acf_fc_layout' => 'before_after')
);
update_field($field_key, $value, $postID);

Is there a way to force the update field to create new entries?
Example, for ID 7729, the first will act as today by creating a new layout and populating it, but when my loop run through another array with the same ID, I would like a new layout to be created, not just updating my previous one.

I know that if I put as many arrays as necessary in my $value, the related layouts will be created for a same post (see below), but I don’t see quite well how to do this from $BAcomparisonArray.

$value = array(
	array('before_image' => $before_image, 'after_image' => $after_image, 'acf_fc_layout' => 'before_after'),
	array('before_image' => $before_image, 'after_image' => $after_image, 'acf_fc_layout' => 'before_after'),
	array('before_image' => $before_image, 'after_image' => $after_image, 'acf_fc_layout' => 'before_after'),
	array('before_image' => $before_image, 'after_image' => $after_image, 'acf_fc_layout' => 'before_after')
);