Check if two row layouts are used

• aaronrobb

• December 2, 2021 at 10:56 am

I’m building a site with a number of flexible fields to create a page builder.

One one page I’m hoping to group two fields into one container row if they both exist.

So I’m looking for a way to check if two row layouts exist and when they do to load them with a div surrounding them.

I have been testing with:

if (get_row_layout() == "property_specs" &&get_row_layout() == "property_overview") {
if (get_row_layout() == "property_overview"):
                echo '<div class="container">';
                include get_template_directory() .
                    "/includes/overview.php";
            elseif (get_row_layout() == "property_specs"):
                include get_template_directory() .
                    "/includes/specs.php";
                echo "</div>";
            endif;
        }

But the initial ‘if’ statement itself just isn’t coming up as a positive.
Is there another way to check if two row layouts exist on the page, and then if so, can I call them as I have above?

• John Huebner

• December 2, 2021 at 1:15 pm

The value stored in the database for a flex field is an array. The array contains a list, in order of the layouts that exist in the flex field. You can get this by using get_post_meta()

$layouts = get_post_mata($post->ID, 'flex_field_name', true);
if (is_array($layouts) && 
    in_array('property_specs', $layouts) && 
    in_array('property_overview', $layouts)) {
  // both exist
}

that will tell you if both exist, but not tell you if one follows the other.