Troubles with true/false in repeater

• eileen.schmidtke

• March 18, 2015 at 12:27 am

Hello ACF Forum members,

Ive been fiddling with some code for quite some time and Im wondering if someone could help me see what I am doing wrong.

I am using the repeater field to display a list of links in the sidebar. I had it working just fine using a foreach loop but now I have added an additional true/false link within the repeater so users can check a box to hide the link if it is not executable on a phone or tablet. SO basically I want to inject a css class to the li tag to hide the link title from view on all devices except desktop. This is what I have so far:

<aside class="widget">
			<?php

				$rows = get_field('tool_section_links');
				if($rows)
				{

					echo '<h2>Tools</h2>';
					echo '<ul>';

					foreach($rows as $row)
					{
					
						if (get_sub_field ('show_desktop') == true ) {
					 
							echo '<li class="show-for-large-up"><a href="'.$row['tool_link'].'">'.$row['tool_link_title'].'</a></li>';
						}
						else {
					 
							echo '<li><a href="'.$row['tool_link'].'">'.$row['tool_link_title'].'</a></li>';
						}
					}
					
				 	echo '</ul>';
				} 
			?>
		</aside>

Ive spent a lot of time looking for examples of true/false usage in the repeater but not much that I could find was much help. It seems like it should be quite basic so I must be missing something simple? Do I need to structure this differently without the foreach loop? thanks in advance.
Eileen

• mediawerk

• March 18, 2015 at 1:29 am

i dont know if true/false has Problem with repeater.
try if it works when you dont use == true, to ckeck if checked like that:

if( get_sub_field ('show_desktop') ) {
...
} else {
...
}

if this also dont work, you could try to replace true/false with a
Radio Button or Check-Box field with value “yes” (and “no” when you use radio-button) and use code like that.

$show_desktop = get_sub_field ('show_desktop');
if ($show_desktop == 'yes'){
...
} else {
...
}

of course you can replace yes/no with any value you wish when you use radio-button/check-box, just adapt code above

• eileen.schmidtke

• March 18, 2015 at 2:38 am

Thanks Mediawerk. I had originally tried the checkbox which did not work so I tried true/false. I just tried the radio button but that has no affect either. I can’t get the class in the li tag to appear. Any other suggestions?

• mediawerk

• March 18, 2015 at 6:09 pm

could you try this (use have_rows and a wile loop instead of your foreach loop) :

<aside class="widget">
<?php
if( have_rows('tool_section_links') ):
echo '<h2>Tools</h2>';
echo '<ul>';
while( have_rows('tool_section_links') ): the_row();

$show_desktop = get_sub_field('show_desktop');
$tool_link = get_sub_field('tool_link');
$tool_link_title = get_sub_field('tool_link_title');
if ($show_desktop == 'yes'){
echo '<li class="show-for-large-up"><a href="'.$tool_link.'">'.$tool_link_title.'</a></li>';
} else {
echo '<li><a href="'.$tool_link.'">'.$tool_link_title.'</a></li>';
}
endwhile;
echo '</ul>';
endif;
?>
</aside>

depend on witch fieldtype you use change if ($show_desktop == 'yes') to correct value

• eileen.schmidtke

• March 19, 2015 at 2:03 am

That worked! Those types of fields don’t seem to work well on a foreach loop. Restructuring the loop was my next plan of attack. Appreciate you sticking with this. Thanks Mediawerk, have a great day!

• zduni

• January 9, 2019 at 12:29 am

I Try to manage someting similar, but the sub_field “zusatzbutton” doesn’t work.
Any thought?

<?php
		$seite = get_field('seite');
		$zusatzbutton = get_sub_field('zusatzbutton-check');

		if($seite) {
		  echo '<div class="seiten grid-3 wrapper">';
		     foreach($seite as $s) {
		         echo '
		         <div class="seite column">
	              <div class="seite-bild"><a href="'.$s['button-link'].'"><img src="'.$s['seite-bild'].'"></a></div>
	              <h2>'.$s['seite-text'].'</h2>
	              <a class="weiterlesen" href="'.$s['button-link'].'">'.$s['button-text'].'</a>';
               
               		if($zusatzbutton == 'yes') {
               			echo '<a class="weiterlesen" href="'.$s['zusatzbutton-link'].'">'.$s['zusatzbutton-text'].'</a>';
               		}
               		
		         echo '</div>';
		     }
		  echo '</div>';
		}
	?>