Random Flexible Content Field Results Ordering

• Steve

• December 11, 2013 at 10:38 am

Hi,

I’m trying to ‘shuffle’ the results in the flexible content field so that they appear in a random order. I know this is possible with the repeater using a foreach loop (http://support.advancedcustomfields.com/forums/topic/random-repeater/), however I’ve not been able to get the flexible content field to display results with a foreach correctly (I’m not sure where I’m going wrong!).

I’m getting the results for the current flexible content field using the below:

<?php if(get_field("slideshow")): ?>

    <div>    
                
        <?php while(has_sub_field("slideshow")): ?>
         
            <?php if(get_row_layout() == "image"): ?>
            
                <!-- Image Layout Script -->
         
            <?php elseif(get_row_layout() == "youtube"): ?>
            
                <!-- YouTube Layout Script -->
            
            <?php elseif(get_row_layout() == "vimeo"): ?>
            
                <!-- Vimeo Layout Script -->
            
            <?php endif; ?>
         
        <?php endwhile; ?>
    
    </div>
 
<?php endif; ?>

Is there any options for ordering the FCF using the get_field method? Or is there a way of using a foreach more effectively for a flexible content field?

Thanks in advance!!
Steve

• Elliot

• December 11, 2013 at 10:49 am

Hi @Steve

You will need to use a foreach loop to iterate over the flexible content layouts.
The code will look much the same as the repeater fiedl example, exept you will need to look at the ‘acf_fc_layout’ value instead of get_row_layout().

When you loop through the rows, just print_r the $row to see what data is a available to you

Thanks
E

• Steve

• December 11, 2013 at 11:07 am

Thanks Elliot, that’s a great help. I’ll have a look at this and get back to you with my results!

Cheers,
Steve

• Gabriel Tadeu

• January 26, 2014 at 4:52 am

I used this code for sort my flexible content. Basic is the same code for repeater.

<?php
    $acontecimentos = get_field('acontecimentos');
    $date = [];

    //Reorder
    foreach($acontecimentos as $key => $row) {
        $date[$key] = $row['data'];
    }

    array_multisort($date, SORT_ASC, $acontecimentos);

    foreach($acontecimentos as $row) {
        if($row['acf_fc_layout'] == 'galeria'):
            //code
        endif;
    }
?>

After array_multisort you can use shuffle http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.shuffle.php