Repeater text field default values

• Enkota

• August 20, 2017 at 11:40 pm

I have a repeater field with 2 sub-fields (Text and Checkbox).

The field is outputted on the theme options page.

What I would like to do is set the text/selected rows as default when a user installs the theme fresh. I have attempted to use the following code:

field_59977c2759a56 – The text subfield
field_599841d665210 – The checkbox subfield

add_filter('acf/load_value/name=ek-search-date', 'acf_load_ek_search_date_value', 10, 3);

  function acf_load_ek_search_date_value($value, $post_id, $field) {
    if ($value !== NULL) {
      return $value;
    }
    $subfield_values = array(
      // field_key => array of values
      'field_59977c2759a56' => array('24 hours ago', '3 days ago', '7 days ago','14 days ago','30 days ago','Anytime'),
      'field_599841d665210' => array('','','','','1',''),
    );
    $values = array();
    foreach ($subfield_values as $field_key => $field_values) {
      for ($i=0; $i<count($field_values); $i++) {
        $values[$i][$field_key] = $field_values[$i];
      }
    }
    $value = $values;
    return $value;
  }

Is there a way that if all rows are empty, then populate with the default rows? (i.e – 24 hours ago, 3 days ago etc.)

Thanks!

• John Huebner

• August 22, 2017 at 10:34 am

The load field filter your using is correct except for the format of the subfield rows

    $subfield_values = array(
      // nested array for each row
      array(
        // field key value pairs for each sub field
        'field_59977c2759a56' => '24 hours ago',
        'field_599841d665210' => 0
      ),
      array(
        // field key value pairs for each sub field
        'field_59977c2759a56' => '3 days ago',
        'field_599841d665210' => 3 days ago
      ),
      // etc
      array(
        // field key value pairs for each sub field
        'field_59977c2759a56' => '30 days ago',
        'field_599841d665210' => 1
      ),
      // etc
    );

• Enkota

• August 22, 2017 at 4:09 pm

@hube2 Ah I see! Thanks. I’ve switched, but fields are still not appearing once the ek-search-date repeater is empty. Also tried on a new install and set to key instead of name. Is there another set I’m missing?

Thanks!

UPDATE:
2 Fields will output as blank if I change to:

     if ($value === NULL) {
       return $value;
     }

• Enkota

• August 23, 2017 at 4:57 am

Got it working by removing the foreach and just spitting out the return value:

add_filter('acf/load_value/key=field_599774ca9d074', 'ek_option_defaults', 10, 3);
  function ek_option_defaults($value, $post_id, $field) {
      if ($value === false) {
          $value = array(
              array(
                  'field_59977c2759a56' => '24 hours ago',
                  'field_599841d665210' => '',
              ),
              array(
                  'field_59977c2759a56' => '3 days ago',
                  'field_599841d665210' => '',
              ),
              array(
                  'field_59977c2759a56' => '7 days ago',
                  'field_599841d665210' => '',
              ),
            //etc

          );
      }
      return $value;
  }

• John Huebner

• August 23, 2017 at 6:07 am

Glad you got it worked out. I missed that part