Reply To: Flexible content Inception

• Tazintosh

• December 7, 2017 at 11:28 am

Update. I know where/when the infinite loop occurs.
Now, I need to find how to solve it (and I’ve not yet found).

Here’s an extract of my code:

function taz_get_field_data($shortcodeID){
	if (class_exists('acf')){
		$layouts = get_field('taz_features', false, true);
		return $layouts[$shortcodeID - 1];
	} else {
		error_log("taz_get_field_data(): ACF Plugin is not available.");
		return null;
	}
}

function taz_features($atts, $content = null){
	$a = shortcode_atts(array(
		'id' => null
		), $atts);

	$shortcodeID	= (int)$a['id'];
	$rowData	= taz_get_field_data($shortcodeID);

	switch ($rowData['acf_fc_layout']){
		case 'gallery':
			[…]
			break;
		case 'carousel':
			[…]
			break;
		[…]
	}
}
add_shortcode('taz_features', 'taz_features');

Line 3 of the above code, we have: $layouts = get_field(‘taz_features’, false, true);
When the last parameter is set to true, looks like the shortcode [taz_features id=4] is executed, thus entering again my shortcode function (taz_features), which will run taz_get_field_data(), which run get_field() again, and so on, thus generating the loop 🙁

Setting false to the format value could solve my problem, but it would imply massive modifications of the rest of my code. I’d definitely like to avoid this.