Count flexible content rows of a particular row layout

• sconnolly

• January 31, 2019 at 11:23 pm

I found the following snippet on another thread. This counts all the rows in a flexible content field.

$field_object = get_field_object(‘flexible_content_field’);
$total_rows = count($field_object[‘value’]);

I’m wondering if its possible to refine the count so that only rows that have a particular layout are counted.

• John Huebner

• February 1, 2019 at 9:01 am

The postmeta value stored for a flexible content field is an array where each element of the array is the layout of that row. I would do something like this.

// get the post meta value without using ACF
$rows = get_post_meta($post_id, 'flexible_content_field', true);
// initialize layout counts in case there is nothing in the meta
$layout_counts = array();
if (is_array($rows)) {
  // have php count the values of the array
  $layout_counts = array_count_values($rows);
}
// initialize count at 0
$count = 0;
// see if any count for a layout
if (isset($layout_counts['layout_1'])) {
  $count = $layout_counts['layout_1'];
}
echo $count;