ACF the WP-API and a unique repeater row id

• pelicanpaul

• June 29, 2019 at 4:18 am

Hi,

This is a sort of advanced topic. I am using ACF and consuming the data via the WP-API. I was wondering if there was a way to have a repeater create a unique ID for each row. I did not see it in the field types. It would be perhaps a GUID or some auto-number. I know it exists in the WP Meta data but it is not exposed in the API.

For example, the JSON returns a repeater as this

"acf": {
"dt_result": [
{
"result_title": "Program Identity",
"result_text": "Here is some copy",
},
{
"result_title": "No Program Identity",
"result_text": "Here is some other copy"
}
],

Is it possible to have ACF return this

“acf”: {
“dt_result”: [
{
“id”: “GUID”,
“result_title”: “Program Identity”,
“result_text”: “Here is some copy”,
},
{
“id”: “GUID2”,
“result_title”: “No Program Identity”,
“result_text”: “Here is some other copy”
}
],

The reasons for this should be obvious to anyone who has dealt with data.

Paul

• Matt

• July 3, 2019 at 12:07 am

This is what you’re looking for: https://github.com/philipnewcomer/ACF-Unique-ID-Field 🙂

Just install it like you would any other plugin and then you should be able to add a unique ID field to any row, group etc…

• pelicanpaul

• July 9, 2019 at 3:47 am

Very nice! This worked great. Of course you can install without composer by adding this to your functions file.

// Repeater unique ID in a folder called functions in my theme
require_once(‘functions/ACF_Field_Unique_ID.php’);

PhilipNewcomer\ACF_Unique_ID_Field\ACF_Field_Unique_ID::init();