Reply To: get_field repeater not returning array

• imageDESIGN

• October 24, 2018 at 3:21 am

This can also happen if you call get_field too early, I had a case where I called it at the top of the functions.php file in a $_GET check and it wouldn’t load the data for a repeater field, just the number of elements.
For Example:

if( $_GET['dostuff'] == 'yes'){
  $data = get_field('fieldname', 'option');
  //do stuff
  //$data returned "3"
}

I solved this by moving it to a function in an init action

if( $_GET['dostuff'] == 'yes'){
add_action('init', 'functionname');
}
function functionname(){
  $data = get_field('fieldname', 'option');
  //do stuff
  //$data returned array
}