[Resolved] How to display repeating field groups with PHP

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[fastrezS]

Hello,

im looking for the way to display my repeatable groups field with PHP in my templates.

I don t find any documentation on toolset website.

I know how display a simple or repeatable fields, but can t find a solution for groups.

Can you help me ?

Thanks

[Christian Cox]

Hi, the Views API render_view is designed to help you display any View using PHP. You can build a View of your RFGs and test it out by inserting it in a Content Template or post, then once it's working correctly you can use the render_view API to output the same View with PHP. Here's an example View shortcode:

[wpv-view name="rfgs-in-a-book" limit="3" offset="1" orderby="title"]

Here's the same View rendered with PHP:

$args = array(
    'name' => 'rfgs-in-a-book',
    'limit' => '3',
    'offset'=> '1',
    'orderby'=>'title',
);
echo render_view( $args );

Here's the documentation for this API: https://toolset.com/documentation/programmer-reference/views-api/#render_view

[fastrezS]

Thanks, i ll do it by creating a view.

But my question was to do this without Views, just with php. Not possible?

[Christian Cox]

Repeating Field Groups are basically posts in a post relationship that is defined by the RFG slug. This document shows a WP_Query to find posts in a relationship:
https://toolset.com/documentation/customizing-sites-using-php/post-relationships-api/how-to-migrate-your-site-to-new-post-relationships/

Here's a basic example with an RFG with the slug "book-rfg" and a parent post with ID 12345:

  $args = array(
    'post_type' => 'book-rfg',
    'numberposts' => -1,
    'toolset_relationships' => array(
      'role' => 'child',
      'related_to' => 12345,
      'relationship' => 'book-rfg'
    ),
  );
  $the_query = new WP_Query( $args );
  while ( $the_query->have_posts() ){
    $the_query->the_post();
    the_title();
    echo '<br />';
  }

The results of $the_query will contain all the child RFGs of the parent Book with ID 12345. Then you can use get_post_meta to find any custom field values within that RFG. The post title will be the name you give to each row of the RFG in wp-admin. Attaching some screenshots here showing the editor in wp-admin and the results on the front-end.