$post->meta_field returning count for repeater field

• hyperarts

• May 2, 2015 at 3:58 pm

So, we can do this –

ACF text field – has some info – standard ways to access this are
get_post_meta( $post->ID, ‘text_field’, true );
or
get_field( ‘text_field, $post-ID );
or as of WP 3.5
$post->text_field

And this – $post->text_field is so clean. It seems to work great for text, text area, WYSIWYG and even checkboxes ( which are serialized data, so we get a multi dimentional array returned from $post->example_checkboxes ). But for a repeater field, we just get the count. $post->repeater_field // 2, or 3, however many rows we have in it.

Anyone know a way around this? I tired $post->repeater[0][‘subfield’] but no luck.
Thanks

• mediawerk

• May 4, 2015 at 6:48 pm

How is the data saved?

The repeater field saves all it’s data in the wp_postmeta table. If your repeater field is called “gallery” and contains 2 sub fields called “image” and “description”, this would be the database structure of 2 rows of data:

// meta_key meta_value

gallery                      2                 // number of rows
gallery_0_image              6                 // sub field value
gallery_0_description        "some text"       // sub field value
gallery_1_image              7                 // sub field value
gallery_1_description        "some text"       // sub field value

that means:
try this:

$post->repeater_0_subfield //for first row
$post->repeater_1_subfield //for second row
...

or create a foreach or a while loop: described here

• hyperarts

• May 5, 2015 at 2:07 am

Thanks mediawerk – that works!