• cosmic

• in reply to: Only last repeater entry is accessible in my loop?
• February 6, 2014 at 1:16 am

Thanks again for the help – I think I’ve solved the problem! It was all about handling the loops properly.

Keep up the good work!

• cosmic

• in reply to: Only last repeater entry is accessible in my loop?
• February 5, 2014 at 11:26 pm

Hi guys,

Thanks for your help firstly! I’m really impressed with the quality of this plugin, I know I’m trying to do something tricky here with only a working knowledge of PHP. Everything else I’ve used ACF for (lots of applications!) works like a charm straight out of the box.

Now.

I tried removing the postdata functions, but that doesn’t seem to have changed anything.

Taking the $idlist declaration out of the loop does seem to have helped- I set up two test repeater rows and posts chosen in both are being affected.

However – only the values from the last repeater row are being applied. I.e. I have two sales, one takes $50 off a group of posts, the second takes $150. Now all the posts selected are showing $150 reduction.

This is the current code I’ve put in a test page template to get the print:

if(get_field('sales', 'option')):
 
	while(has_sub_field('sales', 'option')):
 
		$saletype = get_sub_field('sale_type');
		$discount = get_sub_field('discount_amount');
		$saleitems = get_sub_field('devices_on_sale');

		if( $saleitems ):
		    foreach( $saleitems as $post):
				$thisid = $post->ID;
				$idlist[] = $thisid;
		    endforeach;
		endif;
		
		echo($discount);
		print_r($idlist);
 
	endwhile;
 
endif;

Which yields:
100Array ( [0] => 3391 [1] => 3410 [2] => 3412 ) 150Array ( [0] => 3391 [1] => 3410 [2] => 3412 [3] => 1292 [4] => 751 )

So by my understanding, this is adding both groups of selected posts to the same array.

Perhaps during the foreach loop, the $post->$ID can be stored differently… I have a vague idea – what I need is not a single named array, but some kind of anonymous array that can be referenced differently somehow, when I need it?

Alternatively, could I create a “name” text subfield for each repeater row to provide each row with a unique identifier, then reference the related array from that somehow?

Argh! Any further help much, much appreciated! Cheers for having such great support!

• cosmic

• in reply to: Add custom field value to multiple posts at once
• February 5, 2014 at 6:14 am

This is no longer relevant- delete if you wish

• cosmic

• in reply to: Add custom field value to multiple posts at once
• February 5, 2014 at 12:25 am

P.S. – It occurs to me that I may be able to use a different methodology here-

We have pages on which category posts are displayed – technically in the loop on those pages, for each post I can check if that post has been selected for a sale, and do whatever I want to the post formatting then – correct? If you could point me in the right direction on how to approach either of these methods I’d greatly appreciate it. Thanks again!

• cosmic

• in reply to: Add custom field value to multiple posts at once
• February 5, 2014 at 12:19 am

Hi there, thanks for your response!

To clarify, now I have set up an Options Page with a repeater field called “Sales”. This repeater contains three fields:

“Sale type” – Select – Fixed $ amount / Fixed % discount
“Discount” – Number – Amount of discount
“Devices” – Post Object – Selects applicable posts

Then, for the main device post type, those three fields will be duplicated. Now what I need is a way to pass those values to the fields in the posts chosen. I understand I can use update_field() – I’m thinking I can write a loop that collects the post IDs from the post object field and then uses update_field() to apply the values selected to those posts.

That seems to make sense- but then I’m not sure how I would even call the update_field() action or where that would live. I am far from an expert in WordPress plugin coding, so any help is much appreciated!

Cheers