Help with Creating a Table Using Nested Repeaters

• bodiequirk

• June 24, 2015 at 4:59 am

Hey friends!

I am trying to use nested repeaters to output a table layout.

My final goal is to create a chronological list of service projects organized by decade. So each decade contains a list of rows, for each year in that decade. The year rows have 4 fields: year, project, donation, notes.

Here is what I have set up:

1) I have a field group called “Past Grand Service Projects”
2) I have a repeater field called “Grand Service” (grand_service)
3) Nested inside this repeater field is: 1) a text field I want to use for the decade label (decade) and 2) another repeater that will create the rows for the years within the decade.

I have everything set up correctly in ACF. I can click to add new decades or new years on the back end.

My issue is that I don’t know how to properly display it on the front end.

Below is the code I am trying, but it is not working and I would love to get this table layout outputted on the Past Grand Service page of my site.

    if( have_rows('grand_service'):

        while ( have_rows('grand_service') ) : the_row(); ?>

            <h2><?php the_sub_field('decade'); ?></h2>

            <?php if ( have_rows('year') ): ?>

                <table>

                    <thead>
                        <tr>
                            <td>Year</td>
                            <td>Project</td>
                            <td>Donation</td>
                            <td>Notes</td>
                        </tr>
                    </thead>

                    <?php while ( have_rows('year') ) : the_row(); ?>

                        <tr>
                            <td><?php the_sub_field('pgsp_year'); ?></td>
                            <td><?php the_sub_field('pgsp_project'); ?></td>
                            <td><?php the_sub_field('pgsp_donation'); ?></td>
                            <td><?php the_sub_field('pgsp_notes'); ?></td>
                        </tr>

                    <?php endwhile; ?>

                </table>

            <?php endif; ?>
        <?php endwhile; ?>
 <?php endif; ?>

Something is wrong and I don’t know what. I may need to have the get_sub_field in there, but I am just not sure.

Any help would be hugely appreciated! I have attached a screenshot of my ACF setup.

Thanks

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• John Huebner

• June 24, 2015 at 8:31 am

From what I can see, you have this set up exactly how it should be. About the only thing I can ask before I try to duplicate this is:

Is this on a post page or an options page?

• bodiequirk

• June 24, 2015 at 10:37 am

John,

Ok, thanks for getting back to me. I have resolved the issue above, but I have a new issue: I have a repeater that has gone haywire and is repeating into infinity!!!

Here is the page:

http://demo.bodiequirkdesign.com/all-about-ca-rainbow/assemblies-of-ca/

Here is the page template:

<?php

add_action( 'genesis_entry_content', 'rainbow_assemblies_of_ca' );

function rainbow_assemblies_of_ca() {

    if ( have_rows('assemblies_of_ca') ):

        while ( have_rows('assemblies_of_ca') ) : the_row(); ?>

            <h2 class="decade-title"><?php the_sub_field('region_of_ca'); ?><h2>

            <?php if ( have_rows('assemblies_of_ca') ): ?>

                <table>

                    <thead>
                        <tr class="assemblies-row">
                            <td>City</td>
                            <td>Address</td>
                            <td>Meeting Times</td>
                            <td>Contact Person</td>
                        </tr>
                    </thead>

                    <?php while ( have_rows('assembly_info') ) : the_row(); ?>

                        <tr class="assemblies-row">
                            <td><?php the_sub_field('assembly_city'); ?></td>
                            <td><?php the_sub_field('assembly_address'); ?></td>
                            <td><?php the_sub_field('assembly_meeting_times'); ?></td>
                            <td><?php the_sub_field('assembly_contact_person'); ?></td>
                        </tr>

                    <?php endwhile; // end assemblies info ?>

                </table>

            <?php endif; // end assembly_info ?>
        
        <?php endwhile; // end assemblies_of_ca ?>
 
<?php endif; // end assemblies_of_ca

} // End rainbow_assemblies_of_ca();

genesis(); // Initialize Genesis

// End of File

Can you see what is causing the repeater to never stop? I must be missing something simple, but I can’t see it.

Thanks!

• John Huebner

• June 24, 2015 at 11:00 am

if ( have_rows('assemblies_of_ca') ):
        while ( have_rows('assemblies_of_ca') ) : the_row(); ?>
            <?php if ( have_rows('assemblies_of_ca') ): ?>

                    <?php while ( have_rows('assembly_info') ) : 

I think that second if should probably be

if ( have_rows('assembly_info') ):

• bodiequirk

• June 26, 2015 at 4:00 pm

Yup, that was it! Thanks again. This plugin is amazing. Can’t wait to learn more about how to use it.