Conditional check of true/false field on another page – Advanced Custom Fields

• sixfootjames

• January 10, 2014 at 2:41 am

I have a repeater field with a true/false field marking one of the subfields as the head office of a business.

I’ve create my WP pages like this.

Home
About
Contact
    > Offices

I’ve set up my field group with repeater and told it to use this “Offices” page.

What I now need to do is cycle through all the offices and check which one is the head office so that I can show that office and style it slightly differently from the all the other offices.

I’m dumping my variable out like this: var_dump( get_field('is_head_office' , 382) ); since it is content from another page I want to show on the parent page (Contact).

This returns bool(false)

Pseudo coding this I would do the following:

H2 Head Office H2
if true/false field from page 382
show the head office

H2 Other Offices H2
if true/false fields from page 382 is false
show all other offices

Now I just need to correct syntax. This is working to get all the fields.

<?php while(has_sub_field('office', 382)): ?>
								 
										<?php the_sub_field('city'); ?>
										<?php the_sub_field('address'); ?>
										<?php the_sub_field('telephone'); ?>
								 
									<?php endwhile; ?>

Thanks!

• sixfootjames

• January 10, 2014 at 3:20 am

I’ve tried now to set each other sub fields to true and ran the code again but all of them return false which tells me something else must be wrong here?

• Elliot

• January 11, 2014 at 12:10 pm

Hi @sixfootjames

The checkbox field ‘is_head_office’ is a sub field of the ‘office’ repeater, correct?

If so, you can’t access it’s value with var_dump( get_field('is_head_office' , 382) ); as you must be within a loop to see the current row’s value.

I would code it like so:

<h2>Head Office</h2>

<?php while(has_sub_field('office', 382)): ?>
	
	<?php if( get_sub_field('is_head_office')): ?>
		
		<?php the_sub_field('city'); ?>
		<?php the_sub_field('address'); ?>
		<?php the_sub_field('telephone'); ?>
		
	<?php endif; ?>

<?php endwhile; ?>

<h2>Other Offices</h2>

<?php while(has_sub_field('office', 382)): ?>
	
	<?php if( !get_sub_field('is_head_office')): ?>
		
		<?php the_sub_field('city'); ?>
		<?php the_sub_field('address'); ?>
		<?php the_sub_field('telephone'); ?>
		
	<?php endif; ?>

<?php endwhile; ?>

Hope that helps.

Thanks
E

• sixfootjames

• January 13, 2014 at 8:34 pm

Thanks Elliot that works like a charm and I understand the logic behind it now.
Many thanks.

Can you mark yours as the answer instead of mine 😉