Group Field contains Group Fields

• a2c

• March 22, 2018 at 5:04 am

Hi,

Is it possible to have group fields in a group field? I have a 3 boxed Layout. One Box has a Headline, a text and a link. So – for the Author it would be nice to have this input in the backend. It does not have to be a repeater – there will be always just 3 Boxes with “flex”.

Thanks for your help in advance!

M

• John Huebner

• March 23, 2018 at 1:37 am

If the question is simply, can you put group fields in a group field, then then answer is yes.

• a2c

• March 23, 2018 at 6:12 am

Yes, I did it once with a repeater field. Can you provide a simple code example how to do it?

Would be nice.

Thanks for your reply!
M

• John Huebner

• March 23, 2018 at 6:18 am

I honestly don’t know, what code do you mean? The code to get the values? I’ve never done this. But there is an example of getting the values of a group field on this site. A group field works just like a repeater field, mostly.

• a2c

• March 23, 2018 at 7:05 am

Ok, I´m Sorry that I didn´t post some code examples.

Here is the Code i have which is working fine:

<div class="zeitschrift-box-wrapper">
            <?php if( have_rows('zeitschrift_box') ): while( have_rows('zeitschrift_box') ): the_row(); ?>
            <img src="<?php echo $upload_dir['baseurl']; ?>/2018/03/second-bg.svg" alt="B2B Publishing">
            <?php the_sub_field('text'); ?>
            <a href="<?php the_sub_field('link'); ?>"><?php the_sub_field('link_text'); ?></a>
            <?php endwhile; ?>
            <?php endif; ?>
        </div>

What if I have three of these blocks in a “parent” Group?

Do you know what I mean?

Greets
M

• John Huebner

• April 9, 2018 at 10:21 pm

Sorry for not getting back to you sooner.

A nested Group field would work the same way as a nested repeater field.

if (have_rows('parent_group')) {
  while (have_rows('parent_group')) {
    the_row();
    if (have_rows('child_group')) {
      while (have_rows('child_group')) {
        the_row();
        // etc
      }
    }
  }
}

or you can do something like

$values = get_field('parent_group');

and this will return the whole nested array that you can work with