ACF Repeater show content in blocks

• jarvis

• April 16, 2014 at 5:37 pm

Hi All

I really hope someone can help on this. I’ve a simple repeater but I need to return the values in blocks of 3. Like so:

• Item 1
• Item 2
• Item 3

• Item 4
• Item 5
• Item 6

• Item 7
• Item 8
• Item 9

I can get the repeater to divide into the 3 blocks but can’t return 3 rows per block

How can I do this?

Thanks

• l.pirondini

• April 17, 2014 at 7:27 am

Hi,
I have an idea it’s not realy clean code, could use some improvement but it should work.

// check if the repeater field has rows of data
if( have_rows('repeater_field_name') ):
 
 	// loop through the rows of data
    $i = 0;
    while ( have_rows('repeater_field_name') ) : the_row();
    $get_value = get_sub_field('sub_field_name');
    
    $i++;
    if($i == 1 || $i == 4 || $i == 7 ){
        echo '<ul>'
     }
        // display a sub field value
        echo '<li>' . $get_value . '</li>'
    if($i == 3 || $i == 6 || $i == 9 ){
        echo '</ul>'
     } 
    endwhile;
 
else :
 
    // no rows found
 
endif;

well that is not realy great if you want to change the number of content on each blocs but it could be perfecter for exemple if you add a custom field on you repeater (a true/false for example that set the oppening <ul> and another one that sets the closing </ul>) you could look for those on the while loop and output an oppening or closing ul before or after an element

• jarvis

• April 17, 2014 at 9:06 pm

Thanks l.pirondini that really helped!