get_field repeater not returning array

• majomolon

• March 12, 2014 at 9:10 am

Hi, for years no issue with ACF/repeaters, but now get_field(‘repeater_name’) is not returning an array but instead the number of the rows saved in the DB. The DB looks fine and I could loop through the fields with the ‘repater_name_’.$i.’_sub_field_name’ method but I like to solve this. Note: Although there are many entries, the while(has_sub_field(‘repater_name’)) is only looping once. Glad for any advice!

• majomolon

• March 12, 2014 at 9:28 am

Solved: it was a key issue, didn’t use the “field_XXXXXXX” format in the register_field_group array; Do it!

• imageDESIGN

• October 24, 2018 at 3:21 am

This can also happen if you call get_field too early, I had a case where I called it at the top of the functions.php file in a $_GET check and it wouldn’t load the data for a repeater field, just the number of elements.
For Example:

if( $_GET['dostuff'] == 'yes'){
  $data = get_field('fieldname', 'option');
  //do stuff
  //$data returned "3"
}

I solved this by moving it to a function in an init action

if( $_GET['dostuff'] == 'yes'){
add_action('init', 'functionname');
}
function functionname(){
  $data = get_field('fieldname', 'option');
  //do stuff
  //$data returned array
}