Post object in Flexible Content

• lebarronrouge

• November 4, 2019 at 9:41 am

Hello friends,
I start with ACF, and I already have my first question.

I have a flexible content named “experiences”
In this flexible content, i have a layout named “agrement_du_centre” type : Post Object
I would like to collect the custom fields of this post

this should give a “Post object” in “Flexible Content”

<div class="experiences">
<?php
// Check value exists.
if( have_rows('experiences') ):
                echo '<h2 data-fontsize="24" data-lineheight="27">Expériences</h2><table class="listexp"><tr class="title"><td class ="date-in">Du</td><td class ="date-out">Au</td><td class ="agrement">Agrément du centre</td><td class ="adresse">Adresse</td><td class ="notif">Notification</td></tr>';
    // Loop through rows.
    while ( have_rows('experiences') ) : the_row();

        // Case: Paragraph layout.
        if( get_row_layout() == 'experience' ):
            $du = get_sub_field('date_entree');
            $au = get_sub_field('date_sortie');
            $ctrlid = get_sub_field('agrement_du_centre');            
            $notif = get_sub_field('notification_ch_ctrl');
                echo '<tr><td class ="date-in">' . $du . '</td>
                  <td class ="date-out">' . $au . '</td>

<?php $post_object = get_field(' . $ctrlid . ');

if( $post_object ): 

    // override $post
    $post = $post_object;
    setup_postdata( $post ); 

    ?>
        <td class="agrement"><?php the_title(); ?><?php the_field('experiences_0_agrement_du_centre'); ?></td><td class="adresse"><?php the_field('cp_du_centre'); ?> <?php the_field('ville_du_centre'); ?></td>
    <?php wp_reset_postdata(); // IMPORTANT - reset the $post object so the rest of the page works correctly ?>
<?php endif; ?>

                  <td class ="notif"><a href="' . $notif . '" target="_blank"><i class="fa fa-file-pdf-o"></i></a></td></tr>'; 
        endif;
    endwhile;
    echo '</table>';
else: 
    echo '<h2 data-fontsize="24" data-lineheight="27">Expériences</h2><p><i>Aucune expérience</i></p>';
endif; ?>
</div>

But that does not work
You will tell me “obviously”. But I want to understand why ?

• John Huebner

• November 9, 2019 at 1:50 am

This is getting your post object field

$ctrlid = get_sub_field('agrement_du_centre'); 

What is this field set to return?
In any case this will not return anything because the value returned above is either an id or a post object.

$post_object = get_field(' . $ctrlid . ');

Taking a wild guess by looking at this since you named the value $ctrlid that you are returning the post ID then you would get fields from this other post by using

get_field('field-name-on-other-post', $ctrlid);

on the other hand if $ctrlid is a post object then you’d use

get_field('field-name-on-other-post', $ctrlid->ID);

• lebarronrouge

• November 9, 2019 at 9:17 pm

Hi John,
Thanks for your help

My problem was general PHP, I did PHP in PHP.

So I opened and closed correctly my php tag

Thank you for helping me on the fact that I used the code of the post_object like in the documentation here

Thank you for telling me that I could use the get_field simply

<div class="experiences">
<?php
// Check value exists.
if( have_rows('experiences') ):
                echo '<h2 data-fontsize="24" data-lineheight="27">Expériences</h2><table class="listexp"><tr class="title"><td class ="date-in">Du</td><td class ="date-out">Au</td><td class ="agrement">Agrément du centre</td><td class ="adresse">Adresse</td><td class ="notif">Notification</td></tr>';
    // Loop through rows.
    while ( have_rows('experiences') ) : the_row();

        // Case: Paragraph layout.
        if( get_row_layout() == 'experience' ):
            $du = get_sub_field('date_entree');
            $au = get_sub_field('date_sortie');
            $ctrlid = get_sub_field('agrement_du_centre');            
            $notif = get_sub_field('notification_ch_ctrl'); ?>
            <?php echo '<tr><td class ="date-in">' . $du . '</td>' ?>
            <?php echo '<td class ="date-out">' . $au . '</td>' ?>
            <?php echo '<td class ="agrement">' ?>
            <?php echo get_the_title( $ctrlid ); ?>
            <?php echo '</td>' ?>
            <?php echo '<td class ="adresse">' ?>
            <?php the_field('cp_du_centre', $ctrlid); ?> <?php the_field('ville_du_centre', $ctrlid); ?>
            <?php echo '</td>' ?>
            <?php echo '<td class ="notif"><a href="' . $notif . '" target="_blank"><i class="fa fa-file-pdf-o"></i></a></td></tr>'; ?>
        <?php endif;
    endwhile;
    echo '</table>';
else: 
    echo '<h2 data-fontsize="24" data-lineheight="27">Nombre de VTP par année</h2><p><i>Aucune valeur</i></p>';
endif; ?>
</div>

In the input form in wp_admin : $ctrlid is a post selector that returns the id of the selected post.

This code could be light, I would take the time to heal my code later