Exporting data from ACF (Pro) added using gravity forms

• daansk44

• February 22, 2019 at 1:09 am

Hey Everyone,

For a website, we are using gravity forms in combination with ACF (pro).
When a commit is made (using the gravity form) it will generate a custom POST_TYPE.

I have written an exporter for the data of those post types.
I can export almost all data except data from a group. The weird thing is when I go to the specific post type and save (update) it I have no problem exporting it.

When we look in the database and update the post there are a lot more postmeta then posted with gravity forms.

Script to generate fields

acf_add_local_field_group(array(
            'key'                   => 'group_xxx',
            'title'                 => 'Group',
            'fields'                => array(
                array(
                    'key'               => 'field_xxxx',
                    'label'             => 'Band members',
                    'name'              => 'band_members',
                    'type'              => 'repeater',
                    'instructions'      => '',
                    'required'          => 0,
                    'conditional_logic' => 0,
                    'wrapper'           => array(
                        'width' => '',
                        'class' => '',
                        'id'    => '',
                    ),
                    'collapsed'         => '',
                    'min'               => 0,
                    'max'               => 0,
                    'layout'            => 'table',
                    'button_label'      => '',
                    'sub_fields'        => array(
                        array(
                            'key'               => 'field_xxx',
                            'label'             => 'Name',
                            'name'              => 'name',
                            'type'              => 'text',
                            'instructions'      => '',
                            'required'          => 0,
                            'conditional_logic' => 0,
                            'wrapper'           => array(
                                'width' => '',
                                'class' => '',
                                'id'    => '',
                            ),
                            'default_value'     => '',
                            'placeholder'       => '',
                            'prepend'           => '',
                            'append'            => '',
                            'maxlength'         => '',
                        ),
                        array(
                            'key'               => 'field_xxxxx',
                            'label'             => 'Surname',
                            'name'              => 'surname',
                            'type'              => 'text',
                            'instructions'      => '',
                            'required'          => 0,
                            'conditional_logic' => 0,
                            'wrapper'           => array(
                                'width' => '',
                                'class' => '',
                                'id'    => '',
                            ),
                            'default_value'     => '',
                            'placeholder'       => '',
                            'prepend'           => '',
                            'append'            => '',
                            'maxlength'         => '',
                        ),
                        array(
                            'key'               => 'field_xxxx',
                            'label'             => 'Instrument',
                            'name'              => 'instrument',
                            'type'              => 'text',
                            'instructions'      => '',
                            'required'          => 0,
                            'conditional_logic' => 0,
                            'wrapper'           => array(
                                'width' => '',
                                'class' => '',
                                'id'    => '',
                            ),
                            'default_value'     => '',
                            'placeholder'       => '',
                            'prepend'           => '',
                            'append'            => '',
                            'maxlength'         => '',
                        ),
                    ),
                ),

Script to export data (part of it)

$field_groups = acf_get_field_groups();

        if (is_admin()) {
            if (isset($_GET['export_showcases'])) {
                $showcases = new \WP_Query(array(
                    'post_type'      => 'showcase',
                    'posts_per_page' => -1,
                ));
                if ($showcases->have_posts()) {
                    while ($showcases->have_posts()) {
                        $showcases->the_post();
                        $exportArray['bandname'] = get_the_title();
                        $exportArray['genre']    = implode(", ", wp_get_post_terms(get_the_id(), 'showcase_genre', array("fields" => "names")));

                        $bandMembers = null;
                        if (is_array(get_field('band_members'))) {
                            foreach (get_field('band_members') as $key => $bandMember) {
                                $bandMembers .= $bandMember['name'] . ' ' . $bandMember['surname'] . ': ' . $bandMember['instrument'];
                                if ($key + 1 < count(get_field('band_members'))) {
                                    $bandMembers .= ', ';
                                }
                            }
                        }

                        $exportArray['bandmembers']       = $bandMembers;
                        $exportArray['longlist']          = get_post_meta(get_the_id(), 'longlist', true);
                        $exportArray['shortlist']         = get_post_meta(get_the_id(), 'shortlist', true);
                        $exportArray['personal_interest'] = wp_count_comments(get_the_id())->total_comments;
                        $exportArray['management_name']   = get_field('management_name');
                        $exportArray['contact_name']      = get_field('contact_name');
                        $exportArray['contact_surname']   = get_field('contact_surname');
                        $exportArray['contact_address']   = get_field('contact_address');
                        $exportArray['contact_zipcode']   = get_field('contact_zipcode');
                        $exportArray['contact_town']      = get_field('contact_town');
                        $exportArray['contact_email']     = get_field('contact_email');
                        $exportArray['contact_phone']     = get_field('contact_phone');
                        $exportData[]                     = $exportArray;
                    }
                }