Use acf_form within a Loop

• Dorn Studio

• May 19, 2017 at 5:00 am

Hi there,

I have a foreach loop that contains various acf_form like:

if( have_rows('my_repeater',$my_id) ):
	$i = 0;
	while ( have_rows('my_repeater',$my_id) ) : the_row();
	$i++
	// Doing other stuff non acf-related
	$form_options = array(
		'post_id'          => $my_id,
		'new_post'         => false,
		'post_title'       => false,
		'field_groups'     => array(
			1234
		),
		'fields'           => array(
			'field_12345', // Can I do the equivalent of [field_12345][$i]..i.e. get a specific repeater sub-field in an acf_form?
			// "field_12345[$i]", // Does nothing
			// "[$i]field_12345", // Does nothing
			// "ffield_12345_[$i]", // Does nothing
		),
		'submit_value'     => 'Reply',
		'updated_message'  => __('Thanks', 'acf'),
		'return'           => '?updated="true'
	);
	acf_form($form_options);
	
	endwhile;
endif;

What I would like to know is if I can target a specific repeater subfield in an acf_form. Or is there a filter that I can run to add the correct row to each field?

Essentially, I want to have a submit button/form for each repeater row independently as opposed to one submit button for all repeater rows

Thanks in advance!

• John Huebner

• May 20, 2017 at 2:59 am

Sorry to say this, but no, there isn’t any way to do this, not without building your own form(s) and your own php to process the submitted values.

• Dorn Studio

• May 20, 2017 at 8:38 am

Thanks for letting me know John. I was able to find a workaround using a custom post_meta array field and acf/save_post but had to do away with the repeater.