Adding repeater items inside of Flexible Content Field using PHP Script

• Vheissu

• October 16, 2015 at 5:15 pm

I am scraping some albums from a third-party site and then inserting them into WordPress. I have numerous fields using Advanced Custom Fields Pro and the Flexible Content Layout functionality. My issue is I cannot understand how I can insert multiple items in a repeater which is in a Flexible Content Layout.

My structure is as follows:

page_sections (Flexible Content)
    
    Label: Tracklist
    Name: tracklist
    Display: Row

        title (Text)
        tracks (Repeater)
            track_name (Text)
            track_length (Text)

I came across the documentation http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/update_field/ for the update_field() method which has some examples for updating/inserting data. One of those examples is for inserting a Flexible content row.

While I understand how it would work for simple sub-fields like text, how would I go about adding in multiple items which are in the repeater that sits within my Flexible content row?

• John Huebner

• October 19, 2015 at 3:56 am

You’ll need to combine the one for the flexible content row with the one for the repeater row just above it.

$field_key = "flexible_field";
$value = get_field($field_key);
$value[] = array(
    "sub_field_1" => "Foo1",
    "sub_field_2" => "Bar1",
    "repeater_field" => array(
        array(
            'repeater_sub_1' => 'value',
            'repeater_sub_2' => 'value'
        )
    ),
    "acf_fc_layout" => "layout_1_name"),
;
update_field( $field_key, $value, $post_id );