Update to 5.11 cloned repeater field returns empty array

• dane.rich

• November 15, 2021 at 9:47 am

After updating to 5.11 the output from a cloned repeater get_field changed to:

    Array
(
    [field_5eb009ab7326d_field_593a81a41c9f6] => 
)

So cannot loop with for each anymore. using the_row with get_sub_field works as expected though and I can see the data when looping this way.

Any ideas why this would return as above with get_field?

• John Huebner

• November 15, 2021 at 4:33 pm

Can you supply a portion the code that was working and now isn’t?

• dane.rich

• November 16, 2021 at 5:08 am

Sure, have condensed:

$disclaimers = get_field(‘disclaimers’);

if( !empty($disclaimers) ) {
		foreach( $disclaimers as $disclaimer ) {
		$disclaim_type = $disclaimer['disclaimer'];
		
		#then looping through to generate a string
		}
}

This get_field gives an empty array as above in first post. So the foreach loop fails.

If I do like this I can see the data as expected:

if( have_rows('disclaimers') ) {
		while( have_rows('disclaimers') ) {
			the_row();
			// vars
			$disclaimer = get_sub_field('disclaimer');
			print_r($disclaimer);
					
		}
}

I rolled back to version 5.10.2 and the first foreach snippet worked again.

• John Huebner

• November 16, 2021 at 9:07 am

I have a site that uses clone fields in exactly the same way that I just updated and everything is working as expected.

I need to know more information about your code. Is this called in the template file? is it in a plugin files? When is it called? Is it possible that this is called before the acf/init action has fired?

• dane.rich

• November 16, 2021 at 11:11 am

Thanks for asking the right questions. I looked deeper and was trying get_field first and then if that returned nothing trying get_sub_field. This output must have been updated within the update so have updated it to account for this.

Thanks for your help!