Getting repeater subfields outside the loop

• badabingbreda

• May 11, 2018 at 4:14 am

Hi, I’ve been looking for quite a while within the forum but haven’t found the answer so asking here. Please forgive me if this has come up before.

I want to query the subfields of a repeater field from within an ADMIN-AJAX call, so outside of any loop and without having to provide a postid.

I can get info on the field by using but it doesn’t return subfields.

_acf_get_field_by_name( 'fieldname' )

And I can get the the subfields of that fieldname only if I provide a postID.

get_field( 'fieldname' , $postID )

but how can I get a list of fieldnames associated without a repeater-name WITHOUT a postid?

I have thought about using the wp_postmeta table but I can only find subfields there if they are used on a post. Preferably I want them even without them being filled out.

• badabingbreda

• May 11, 2018 at 4:51 am

Ok, so after some frustration I got back to what I already had. Went back over the field_groups and over all the fields. When I found that particular fieldname there also were all the sub_fields.
So something like this (typing this out, not copying):

$groups = acf_get_field_groups();
for ($i=0;$i<sizeof($groups);$i++) {
  $custom_fields = acf_get_fields( $groups[$i]['ID']);

  var_dump( $custom_fields);
}