How to get repeater data to be used as a select?

• openbayou

• September 4, 2019 at 5:51 pm

I’m trying to find a way to get the title in a repeater to be used as a select. I tried the example on one of the documentation but the select is empty:

	function acf_load_color_field_choices( $field ) {
    
		// reset choices
		$field['choices'] = array();
		
		
		// get the textarea value from options page without any formatting
		$choices = get_field('playlist_title', false);
	
		
		// explode the value so that each line is a new array piece
		$choices = explode("\n", $choices);
	
		
		// remove any unwanted white space
		$choices = array_map('trim', $choices);
	
		
		// loop through array and add to field 'choices'
		if( is_array($choices) ) {
			
			foreach( $choices as $choice ) {
				
				$field['choices'][ $choice ] = $choice;
				
			}
			
		}
		
	
		// return the field
		return $field;
		
	}
	
	add_filter('acf/load_field/name=color', 'acf_load_color_field_choices');

I was able to list all text fields with playlist_title using this code:

<?php
				// check for rows (parent repeater)
				if( have_rows('media_playlist') ): ?>
					<?php 
					// loop through rows (parent repeater)
					while( have_rows('media_playlist') ): the_row(); ?>
							<?php the_sub_field('playlist_title'); ?>
					<?php endwhile; // while( has_sub_field('to-do_lists') ): ?>
				<?php endif; // if( get_field('to-do_lists') ): ?>

Thanks for the help.

• openbayou

• September 5, 2019 at 8:14 am

So I tried using this solution from https://support.advancedcustomfields.com/forums/topic/return-all-values-from-a-repeater-row-by-using-a-single-dynamic-select/ and it deletes the select field and adds two random blank fields

function acf_load_contact_field_choices( $field ) {
    
		// reset choices
		$field['choices'] = array();
	
		// if has rows
		if( have_rows('media_playlist') ) {
			// while has rows
			while( have_rows('media_playlist') ) {
				// instantiate row
				the_row();
				
				// vars
				$contactName = the_sub_field('playlist_title');
	
				// append to choices
				$field['choices'][ $contactName ] = $contactName;
			}
		}
	
		// return the field
		return $field;
		
	}
	add_filter('acf/load_field/name=color', 'acf_load_color_field_choices');

• John Huebner

• September 5, 2019 at 10:13 pm

The filters you are trying to use modify the choices of fields in the admin. They will not create a select field for you.

if (have_rows('your-repeater')) {
  ?>
    <select>
      <?php 
        while (have_rows('your-repeater')) {
          the_row();
          ?><option value="<?php the_sub_field('your-sub-field'); ?>"><?php the_sub_field('your-sub-field'); ?></option><?php 
        }
      ?>
    </select>
  <?php 
}