Update a nested repeater field

• [email protected]

• September 30, 2019 at 4:05 am

I’m trying to understand how to update a nested repeater field

i have a nested repeater field (link blocks, with a title and a list of links. How do I address this for update?

Link-block Repeater field
— block title (string)
— Link (new repeater field)
—— Link title (string)
—— Link URL (link)
—— Link icon (fa icon)

I get my link-block from a json feed, $d->link_block. To get the values from $d->link_block is fine, but I cannot figure out the update syntax from acf.

please advice

• John Huebner

• October 3, 2019 at 12:51 am

Here is a rough outline of what you need

$repeater = 'field_XXXXX'; // field key of repeater
$value = array(
  // nested array for every row of repeater
  array(
    // field key => value pairs for each sub field
    'field_XXXXX' => 'block title', // title field
    'field_XXXXX' => array(
      // nested repeater
      // field key => value pairs for each sub field
      'field_XXXXX' => 'link title',
      'field_XXXXX' => 'link url',
      'field_XXXXX' => 'link fa icon',
    ),
    // next row in nested repeater
  ),
  // next row in repeater
);
update_field($repeater, $value, $post_id);

• gordoburrito

• July 31, 2022 at 2:50 pm

Thanks you were missing an array of arrays

  $repeater = 'field_62e5ba2733cea'; // field key of repeater
  $value_john = array(
    // nested array for every row of repeater
    array(
      // field key => value pairs for each sub field
      'field_62e5ba3233ceb' => 'block title', // title field
      'field_62e6bd4119dc1' => array(
        // nested repeater
        // field key => value pairs for each sub field
        array(
          'field_62e6bd5e19dc3' => 'link title',
          'field_62e6bd6419dc4' => 'link url',
          'field_62e6bd6a19dc5' => 'link fa icon',
        ),
        array(
          'field_62e6bd5e19dc3' => 'link title',
          'field_62e6bd6419dc4' => 'link url',
          'field_62e6bd6a19dc5' => 'link fa icon',
        ),

      ),
      // next row in nested repeater
    ),
  // next row in repeater
);