keep context in ACF and wp_get_template_part

• littleboxm

• February 22, 2021 at 4:49 am

I have a repeater field, and inside the nested repeater field a flexible content field

Question 1: how can i pass the nested field to get_template_part while preserving scope?

This code below is working fine:

	while ( have_rows( 'repeater_page_section' ) ) : the_row();
			$section_title    = get_sub_field( 'section_title' );
			$background_color = get_sub_field( 'background_color' );
	
			while ( have_rows( 'fexible_content' ) ) : the_row();
				$layout = get_row_layout();
				switch ( $layout ) {
					case 'flex_rich_text_editor':
                                      $content =   get_sub_field( 'rich_text_editor' )
                                get_template_part(
							'partials/common/blocks/editor',
'',
							[
								'content' => $content,
							]
						);

And I can pass my sub field, once fetched to the template context.
However what if field ‘rich_text_editor’ is another nested repeater or flexible field?
How can I call these contextual in-loop methods like have_rows, from within the template part? The scope is lost, as we have to pass variables explicitly into the template.

So get_row_layout(), have_rows() etc no longer work.

I also cannot call for example, get_field(‘rich_text_editor’, $postID )
since rich_text_editor is an nested child of repeater_page_section.

Question 2: when i use

get_fields( $post->ID );

and then dump the output, I see well defined nested structure of my data.
what is the advantage of using these proprietary methods like have_rows, the_row, get_field, get_sub_feild etc
instead of just iterating through the returned data structure in a foreach ?

• John Huebner

• March 13, 2021 at 1:07 am

get_template_part() now allows you to pass variables to templates.