Repeaters have_rows has no value…

• jabbamonkey

• February 26, 2014 at 6:11 am

Having some REPEATER field issues. The “have_rows” function doesn’t see to be working. Below is my code, with some comment tags for testing. The first comment just outputs “<!– side_feature: –>, so I know that there is some problem with getting the values. The rest of the code doesn’t run because the next IF statement doesn’t register any value.

I checked the field names, and they are all correct (so I don’t see any typo issue). There are definitely values entered when I EDIT the page – So, the issue isn’t in the PAGE administration.

I also checked and saw that I am running the most recent versions of the plugin, and WordPress.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

<div class="sidebox">
    <!-- side_feature: <?php if( have_rows('side_feature') ) { echo 'yes'; } ?> -->
    <?php 
    if( have_rows('side_feature') ): 
        ?><!-- Feature --><?php
        while( have_rows('side_feature') ): the_row(); 

        $side_feature_txt = get_sub_field('side_feature_txt');
        $side_feature_url = get_sub_field('side_feature_url');
        $side_feature_img_field = get_sub_field('side_feature_img');
            $size = "medium"; // (thumbnail, medium, large, full or custom size)
            $side_feature_img  = wp_get_attachment_image_src( $side_feature_img_field, $size );
        ?>
        <div class="side-feat">
            <?php if($side_feature_txt!='') { ?>
                <?php if($side_feature_url!='') { ?><a href="<?php echo $side_feature_url; ?>"><?php } ?>
                    <div class="side-feat-txt"><?php echo $side_feature_txt; ?></div> 
                    <div class="side-feat-txtbox"></div>    
                <?php if($side_feature_url!='') { ?></a><?php } ?>
            <?php } ?>
            <?php if($side_feature_img!='') { ?>
                <?php if($side_feature_url!='') { ?><a href="<?php echo $side_feature_url; ?>"><?php } ?>
                <div class="side-feat-img" style="background:url('<?php echo $side_feature_img[0]; ?>');">
                        <!--
                        <?php if($side_feature_url!='') { ?><a href="<?php echo $side_feature_url; ?>"><?php } ?>
                        <img src="<?php echo $side_feature_img[0]; ?>" width="360" height="150" />
                        <?php if($side_feature_url!='') { ?></a><?php } ?>
                        -->
                </div>
                <?php if($side_feature_url!='') { ?></a><?php } ?>
            <?php } ?>
        </div><!-- END .side-feat -->
        <?php 
        endwhile; // End While
    endif; 
    ?>     
</div>

• Elliot

• February 27, 2014 at 10:16 am

Hi @jabbamonkey

Can you please debug your data like so:

<?php 

echo '<pre>';
	print_r( get_field('side_feature') );
echo '</pre>';
die; ?>

What do you see?

Is it possible that ACF does not know which post to load the data from?
Where are you using this code?
Does get_the_ID() return the correct post’s ID in the same area as your code?

Thanks
E

• jabbamonkey

• March 1, 2014 at 3:49 am

The output is only

<pre></pre>

I know it’s not an ID issue, since the page is loading other values from ACF on the page.

I also used get_post_meta to see the values in the database for side_feature …

`[side_feature_0_side_feature_img] => Array
(
[0] => 50633
)

[_side_feature_0_side_feature_img] => Array
(
[0] => field_530b8c7eb5ff4
)

[side_feature_0_side_feature_txt] => Array
(
[0] => Ridgewood
)

[_side_feature_0_side_feature_txt] => Array
(
[0] => field_530b8c9cb5ff5
)

[side_feature_0_side_feature_url] => Array
(
[0] => http://www.somewhere.com/2
)

[_side_feature_0_side_feature_url] => Array
(
[0] => field_530b8cb5b5ff6
)

[side_feature] => Array
(
[0] => 2
)

[_side_feature] => Array
(
[0] => field_530b8c5eb5ff3
)`

• Elliot

• March 3, 2014 at 10:37 am

Hi @jabbamonkey

The data definitely exists thanks to your debug above.
Is there anything special about your code that I am not aware of?
Is this all in an action / filter? Or a normal page template file?
Do you have any filters running on the repeater field which could be clearing the value.

Thanks
E

• atwellpub

• August 15, 2014 at 8:21 am

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• atwellpub

• August 15, 2014 at 8:38 am

Discovered why our issue is happening. It’s because we call register_field_group() on the backend but not the frontend so the acf-field cpt entry is not detected.

in /api/api-field.php in the _acf_get_field_by_key() method it users a get_posts query that looks for the custom field, but it’s not added in.

So get_rows for repeater fields depends on the custom fields being in the db, where as get_field() does not.