Post Object in Repeater Field. Need Rows Count

• phej

• June 18, 2016 at 3:50 am

I have a Repeater field (field name is “positions”) with a Post Object field (field name is “position”) as the field that repeats. I’d like to be able to count how many “position” the user has added and customize the front-end so that everything displays correctly.

I found the following code at https://support.advancedcustomfields.com/forums/topic/if-repeater-field-has-1-rows-2-rows-etc/. It helped me, but $count is returning 1 when it should be 2.

<?php $count = count( get_sub_field( 'position' ) );
if ( $count == 1 ) { ?>
<div class="full-width">
<?php } elseif ( $count == 2 ) { ?>
<div class="half-width">
<?php } elseif ( $count >= 3 ) { ?>
<div class="one-third">
<?php } ?>

Like I said, the code above is working, but $count is returning 1, not 2.

• James

• June 19, 2016 at 11:54 am

Hi @phej

I believe you need to count the repeater field instead of the subfield like this:

$count = count( get_field( 'positions' ) );

I hope this helps 🙂

• phej

• June 20, 2016 at 1:31 am

Hey @acf-support,
I tried $count = count( get_field( 'positions' ) ); but <?php echo $count;?> still echos “1”

Here’s the field in the admin: and here it is on the page: . Not sure if that helps or not.

• James

• June 20, 2016 at 12:01 pm

Hi @phej

That’s weird. Could you var_dump() the returned data like this:

echo <pre>;
var_dump(get_field( 'positions' ));
echo </pre>;

Also, could you please try to add the post/page ID as the second parameter of get_field() like this:

echo <pre>;
var_dump(get_field( 'positions', 99 ));
echo </pre>;

Where ’99’ is the post/page ID that has the repeater field.

Thanks 🙂

• phej

• June 20, 2016 at 1:34 pm

@acf-support,

get_field( ‘positions’ ) yielded:

array(2) {
  [0]=>
  array(1) {
    ["position"]=>
    object(WP_Post)#597 (24) {
      ["ID"]=>
      int(243)
      ["post_author"]=>
      string(1) "1"
      ["post_date"]=>
      string(19) "2016-06-17 14:35:53"
      ["post_date_gmt"]=>
      string(19) "2016-06-17 14:35:53"
      ["post_content"]=>
      string(1271) "

get_field( ‘positions’, 10 ) yielded:

array(2) {
  [0]=>
  array(1) {
    ["position"]=>
    object(WP_Post)#597 (24) {
      ["ID"]=>
      int(243)
      ["post_author"]=>
      string(1) "1"
      ["post_date"]=>
      string(19) "2016-06-17 14:35:53"
      ["post_date_gmt"]=>
      string(19) "2016-06-17 14:35:53"
      ["post_content"]=>
      string(1271) "

As well as the content for both posts.

• phej

• June 20, 2016 at 1:36 pm

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• James

• June 20, 2016 at 1:54 pm

Hi @phej

That’s weird. As you can see, the var_dump() returns array(2), which mean the count() function should return “2” too. Could you please try it like this:

echo count(get_field( 'positions' ));

And:

echo count(get_field( 'positions', 10 ));

If it still returns ‘1’, could you please open a new ticket and provide temporary credentials to your site here: https://support.advancedcustomfields.com/new-ticket?

Don’t forget to include the URL to this thread and let know where you can find the code in your template file.

Thanks 🙂

• phej

• June 20, 2016 at 2:41 pm

Yeah, it is weird.

I made a comment with the URL, but it’s private – not sure if you can see that or not – as the site is still in dev. I’ll try that tomorrow and open a ticket if it doesn’t work.

Thanks!