I am using advanced custom fields pro to store and display information on estate sale dates. These are held in a repeater field, each row in the field has a start time, end time and a date. I need to display the information ordered by the date in the repeater field row. Currently it is ordered by date modified. I have tried several solutions but none seem to work for what I need to do.
This is what I have currently:
<?php
$latestes = new WP_Query(
array(
'post_type' => 'estate-sales',
'post_status' => 'publish',
'posts_per_page' => 10,
'orderby' => 'modified',
'order' => 'DESC'
)
);
while ( $latestes->have_posts() ) : $latestes->the_post();
echo '<li class="frontpage-esale"><a href="';
the_permalink();
echo '">';
the_title();
echo ' ';
$rowses = get_field('estate_sale_dates');
$first_row = $rowses[0];
$first_row_date = $first_row['es-date'];
$first_row_start = $first_row['es-start-time'];
$first_row_end = $first_row['es-end-time'];
echo ' - ';
if ($first_row_date) {
echo date('F j, Y',strtotime($first_row_date));
}
else {
echo 'Sale Dates TBA';
}
endwhile;
wp_reset_query();
?>
The most common answer when searching for a solution is to do something like this:
$latestes = new WP_Query(
array(
'post_type' => 'estate-sales',
'post_status' => 'publish',
'posts_per_page' => 10,
'orderby' => 'modified',
'order' => 'DESC'
)
);
while ( $latestes->have_posts() ) : $latestes->the_post();
$repeater = get_field('estate_sale_dates');
foreach( $repeater as $key => $row )
{
$column_id[ $key ] = $row['es-date'];
}
array_multisort( $column_id, SORT_ASC, $repeater );
foreach( $repeater as $row ) {
echo '<li class="frontpage-esale"><a href="';
the_permalink();
echo '">';
the_title();
echo ' ';
$rowses = get_field('estate_sale_dates');
$first_row = $rowses[0];
$first_row_date = $first_row['es-date'];
$first_row_start = $first_row['es-start-time'];
$first_row_end = $first_row['es-end-time'];
echo ' - ';
if ($first_row_date) {
echo date('F j, Y',strtotime($first_row_date));
}
else {
echo 'Sale Dates TBA';
}
}
endwhile;
wp_reset_query();
?>
However, when I try that, it lists each sale 3 times, does not order by the date at all, and if no date is entered (which needs to just default to Sale Dates TBA) it throws an error.
Any help greatly appreciated.