• Adam Ainsworth

• in reply to: Initialize repeater field or programmatically find field_key
• May 20, 2014 at 2:22 am

Hi Elliott,

sorry for the delay in getting back to you – I’ve been working on other projects.

It turns out my code was nearly correct. What I needed to do when no value exist was have an array of arrays.

So, I have just added one line to my code, and it seems to be working now

	function acf_add_repeater_row($field_name, $post_id, $values, $field_key = '') {
		$field_obj = get_field_object($field_name, $post_id );

		if( $field_key == ''){
			$field_key = $field_obj['key'];
		}

		// check whether the meta fields exist in the DB
		if( $field_obj['value'] ) {
			// they do, let's add a row
			array_push( $field_obj['value'], $values );
			update_field( $field_key, $field_obj['value'], $post_id );
		}
		else if ($field_key) {
			// they don't, let's create them
			$values = array( $values );
			update_field( $field_key, $values, $post_id );
		} 
	}

The only thing that is left is finding the field key programmatically, rather than having to hard code it

Adam

• Adam Ainsworth

• in reply to: Initialize repeater field or programmatically find field_key
• March 11, 2014 at 10:53 pm

Hi @elliot – thanks very much for your response.

I have altered the function so that I can pass it the field key – is there really know way to find this?

I have one final problem, if you don’t mind? My code is below, it is not correctly inserting the data when no rows exist already (the second update_field call).

Thanks,

Adam

function acf_add_repeater_row($field_name, $post_id, $values, $field_key = '') {
	$field_obj = get_field_object($field_name, $post_id );
	// var_dump($field_obj['value']);
	if( $field_key == ''){
		$field_key = $field_obj['key'];
	}

	// check whether the meta fields exist in the DB
	if( $field_obj['value'] ) {
		// they do, let's add a row
		array_push( $field_obj['value'], $values );
		update_field( $field_key, $field_obj['value'], $post_id );
	}
	else if ($field_key) {
		// they don't, let's create them
		update_field( $field_key, $values, $post_id );
	} 
}