Hello,
I have a nested repeater field (repeater inside another repeater) with a ‘select’ field inside that, and I basically just want to output the label for each item in the select field.
I have read the documentation, which shows the following:
$field = get_field_object('field_name');
$value = get_field('field_name');
$label = $field['choices'][ $value ];
However I can’t get this to work within a nested repeater. Is there a way around this?
For info, I am using ACF v3.5
Any help much appreciated
James
Hi @wickywills
The get_field_object function only works with parent fields. To find a sub field object, please use the get_sub_field_object function.
This function is documented below and was added in v4:
http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/functions/get_sub_field_object/
Perhaps for now, you could use a work around like so:
<?php
$field = get_field_object('repeater_field_name');
$sub_fields = $field['sub_fields'];
// debug variable to find the sub field key ($key)
echo '<pre>';
print_r($sub_fields);
echo '</pre>';
die;
$sub_field = $sub_fields[ $key ];
?>
Hi @elliot,
Thank you for replying. I should point out that my PHP knowledge isn’t that great(!). I did however get the following output:
Array
(
[field_51e6a66b8509b] => Array
(
[label] => Client name
[name] => client_name
[type] => text
[instructions] =>
[column_width] =>
[default_value] =>
[formatting] => html
[order_no] => 0
[key] => field_51e6a66b8509b
)
[field_51e6a6788509c] => Array
(
[label] => Client logo
[name] => client_logo
[type] => image
[instructions] =>
[column_width] =>
[save_format] => url
[preview_size] => thumbnail
[order_no] => 1
[key] => field_51e6a6788509c
)
[field_51e6a6878509d] => Array
(
[label] => Images
[name] => images
[type] => repeater
[instructions] =>
[column_width] =>
[sub_fields] => Array
(
[field_51e6a69f8509e] => Array
(
[label] => Large image
[name] => large_image
[type] => image
[instructions] =>
[column_width] =>
[save_format] => url
[preview_size] => thumbnail
[order_no] => 0
[key] => field_51e6a69f8509e
)
[field_51e9070105abe] => Array
(
[choices] => Array
(
[kitchen] => Kitchen
[lounge] => Lounge
[hallway] => Hallway
[meeting_room] => Meeting Room
[bathroom] => Bathroom
[reception] => Reception
[bedroom] => bedroom
)
[label] => Location
[name] => location
[type] => select
[instructions] =>
[column_width] =>
[default_value] =>
[allow_null] => 0
[multiple] => 0
[order_no] => 1
[key] => field_51e9070105abe
)
)
[row_min] => 0
[row_limit] =>
[layout] => table
[button_label] => Add Row
[order_no] => 2
[key] => field_51e6a6878509d
)
)
What I basically want is to output the ‘choices’ array from the above. I’ve taken a look into multidimensional arrays and understand them (ish!), but not when they’re this deep. Do you know how I can output the ‘choices’?
Thanks again
Hi @wickywills
$sub_field = $sub_fields[ 'field_51e6a6878509d' ][ 'sub_fields' ][ 'field_51e9070105abe' ];
Ah I get it! Didn’t think it would be that easy 🙂
Thanks very much @elliot
