Performance benefit using Group over multiple calls to single fields?

• doughballs

• September 26, 2020 at 11:13 pm

I’m using flexible content to create a page builder, and designing each block as a component. Some blocks have a lot of options and I’m just wondering if something like this:

$id = get_sub_field(‘id’);
$class = get_sub_field(‘class’);
$minHeight = get_sub_field(‘min_height’);
$height = get_sub_field(‘full_height’);
$mobile = get_sub_field(‘mobile’);
$media = get_sub_field(‘media’);
$content = get_sub_field(‘content’);
$cta = get_sub_field(‘cta’);
$buttonType = get_sub_field(‘button_type’);
$link = get_sub_field(‘link’);
$scrollIcon = get_sub_field(‘scroll_icon’);
$anchor = get_sub_field(‘anchor’);

…at the top of each component is going to be noticeably slower than, say:

$blockGroup = get_sub_field('block_group');

…and then accessing each value like:

$blockGroup['id']

The bottom line is a group created yet another nest inside the flexible row, and just not as neat as having the fields loose in there. Thoughts welcome.

• John Huebner

• September 27, 2020 at 10:59 pm

There shouldn’t be any noticeable performance change.

When a post is set up all of it’s meta data should be in the cache and only PHP is used to get the values from the cache.