Reply To: repeater field not returning data

• [email protected]

• October 14, 2018 at 8:25 am

A little update on this.

I’m writing a plugin that interfaces with WooCommerce. In the plugin I’m using ACF to attach custom repeater fields to a user which is then associated with a product. Anyhow, in the following code, get_students_1 returns the wrong list of students and get_students_2 returns the correct list. The two functions are identical.

public function woocommerce_display_student_in_cart( $item_data, $cart_item ) 
	{
$this->get_students_1();
$this->get_students_2();

...
}
	private function get_students_1()
	{
		print '<BR>---------STUDENTS 1--------<BR>';
		
		$user = 'user_'.$this->current_user->ID;
		
		
		if( have_rows('student-list', $user) )
		{
			print "user has students<BR>";
			
			while( have_rows('student-list',$user ) ): the_row();

				$currentName =  get_sub_field('student_name');
		
				print "** student $currentName <BR>";

			endwhile;	
		} 
		else 
		{
			print "user has no students<BR>";
		}
	}
	
	private function get_students_2()
	{
		print '<BR>---------STUDENTS 2--------<BR>';
		
		$user = 'user_'.$this->current_user->ID;
		
		if( have_rows('student-list', $user) )
		{
			print "user has students<BR>";
			
			while( have_rows('student-list',$user ) ): the_row();
	
				$currentName =  get_sub_field('student_name');
		
				print "** student $currentName<BR>";
	
			endwhile;	
			 
		}
		else 
		{
			print "user has no students<BR>";
		}
	}

In fact, if I just call $this->get_students_1() twice, the first time the list is wrong and the second time it is correct.

This is seriously confusing. Any ideas?