Johann Heyne

Hi,

I was wrong. For some reason I´ve got NULL using get_field(). But it should be FALSE on an empty table so that your code example should work.

I´m going to investigate that.

Cheers,
Johann

Hi Martin,

I remember that the forum guideline do not allow me to get in contact with you outside of this forum. I tested using the table field as an elementor Shortcode widget, see FAQs. What kind of problem do you have?

Cheers,
Johann

I just created a ACF Block like code below and assigned a table field with name “table”. In the Gutenberg editor I can add the block with the table field, can add table content in the aside panel, changes appears in the block preview, can switch to edit the fields in the block itself, table content is still current. After saving the page I can select the table block and still edit its table in the aside, I can reload the page and the table content is still there.

My basic code for functions.php is…

add_action( 'acf/init', function() {

    if( function_exists('acf_register_block') ) {

        acf_register_block(array(
            'name' => 'acf-table',
            'title' => __('ACF Table'),
            'description' => __('A custom table block.'),
            'render_callback' => function( $block ) {

                echo '<p>Table Example</p>';

                $table = get_field( 'table' );
                echo render_table( $table );

            },
            'category' => 'formatting',
            'icon' => 'editor-table',
            'keywords' => array( 'table' ),
        ));
    }
});

if ( ! function_exists('render_table') ) {

    function render_table( $data = false ) {

        $return = '';

        if ( $data ) {

            $return .= '<table border="1">';

                if ( ! empty( $data['caption'] ) ) {

                    $return .= '<caption>' . $data['caption'] . '</caption>';
                }

                if ( isset( $data['header'] ) and is_array( $data['header'] ) ) {

                    $return .= '<thead>';

                        $return .= '<tr>';

                            foreach ( $data['header'] as $th ) {

                                $return .= '<th>';
                                    $return .= $th['c'];
                                $return .= '</th>';
                            }

                        $return .= '</tr>';

                    $return .= '</thead>';
                }

                $return .= '<tbody>';

                    if ( isset( $data['body'] ) ) {

                        foreach ( $data['body'] as $tr ) {

                            $return .= '<tr>';

                                foreach ( $tr as $td ) {

                                    $return .= '<td>';
                                        $return .= $td['c'];
                                    $return .= '</td>';
                                }

                            $return .= '</tr>';
                        }
                    }

                $return .= '</tbody>';

            $return .= '</table>';
        }

        return $return;
    }
}

Here is the Beta2 version supporting the ACF Gutenberg blocks. Fixes an encoding issue.
https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/advanced-custom-fields-table-field.1.3.1-beta2.zip

Hi Shaun,

the current version of the table plugin has no Gutenberg block support yet, but the next version (1.3) will support blocks. The ACF version 5.8, which introduces the blocks, is still in beta and I´m still testing the block functionalities for a few days.

Cheers,
Johann

I agree. I´m working on a better table editing experience with a lot of requested functionalities. But even using the classic WordPress editor opens to a lot of errors.

What about using Markdown in your case?

For a website with so many pages, how to deal with hard-coded internal links on changed URLs? Would not it be better to use shortcodes for links using post ids like [link post_id="1234" text="Link Text"]? Changes on the URl would not be a problem anymore. At least one could then check the existence of a URL of a link before linking the link text.

Cheers,
Johann

• This reply was modified 7 years, 6 months ago by Johann Heyne.