Update Repeater SELECT field

• guit4eva

• October 10, 2015 at 12:37 am

Hey guys,

I am trying to update a select field in a repeater, based on another ACF field.

I have the following so far, which works, but I need to check if the value exists already to avoid duplicates. Can anyone point out how to correct my code?

<?php
$update_me = get_field('website');
$field_key = "field_55f2e2b76d08e";
          $value = get_field($field_key);
          $value[] = array("field_55f2e2dc6d08f" => "website", "field_55f2e3256d090" => $update_me);
            if($value != 'website') {
              update_field( $field_key, $value);
            }
          ?>

Thanks so much!

• John Huebner

• October 12, 2015 at 1:35 am

I’m not sure I understand what you mean by but I need to check if the value exists already to avoid duplicates Do you mean that you want to see if someone has selected the value already for another post?

• guit4eva

• October 12, 2015 at 7:12 pm

Hey there John,

Let me try explain a bit better:

I have the following field:

Website

and the following two SELECT fields in a repeater:

TYPE: (phone, email, website etc)
VALUE:

When I open the page, I need to check whether the choice “TYPE: Website” exists and has a VALUE. if it does, do nothing. If it doesn’t, update it using the Website field. Otherwise the repeater SELECT field ends up with duplicate website values.

Hope that makes more sense?

• guit4eva

• October 12, 2015 at 7:15 pm

Also, is it possible to delete a choice if it is empty? ie, if a repeater has:

Phone: XXX XXX XXXX
Cellphone: XXX XXX XXXX
Cellphone:
Email: [email protected]

Delete the second cellphone choice when opening the page?

• John Huebner

• October 12, 2015 at 10:38 pm

If it’s all part of the same repeater, maybe.

you can create an acf/load_value filter on the repeater field http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/acfload_value/

In this filter you it would be possible to remove duplicate values. The value for the repeater will be a multidimensional array that looks something like this:

$value = array(
  // there will be a nested array for each row  
  array(
    // each field in the row will have a value
    'type' => 'website',
    'value' => 'http://www.website.com/'
  )
)

You could loop through the array, record what’s in each row and delete the duplicates, you could also get the value of another field to check to see it that is duplicated as well. At least in theory this might do what you need.