Up/downvoting functionality for an ACF realtionship field WordPress

Andrea P answers:

Hello Dale!

at the moment I can't think of an easy way to achieve what you want by using the relational field..

My suggestion is to use a repeater field to list the collection of posts, and when you add a post to the collection, you'll have to look at the posts in your post listing in wp admin, and put its ID into the repeater row.
in my example I've then used the ID only to create a link to the post, but you could use it basically for grabbing anything else that you could do within a posts relationships field loop.
(the only thing that you cannot do is setup_postdata($row['id']), because we will need to get the current page id while into the repeater loop, and if you setup the post data to loop the posts, the update_postmeta() will update the looped post field rather than the page in which the collections is being displayed)

for the following code, I've created a repeater like this:


repeater name: posts_repeater
ROW:
id
points
post_name


you can use your own names and change the following code accordingly

place this code in the template of the page where you want to display the list


<?php

// get the repeater rows
$posts_repeater = get_field('posts_repeater');
// set up an array for ordering
$ordering_list = array();
// populate ordering list
foreach( $posts_repeater as $i => $row ) {
$ordering_list[ $i ] = $row['points'];
// setup an additional value within the repeaters rows with the field name to be used later (this is the structure used for naming the repeater subfields in database: $ParentName_$RowNumber_$ChildName
$posts_repeater[$i]['data_name'] = 'posts_repeater_'.$i.'_points';
}
// multisort the posts array based on the ordering list
array_multisort( $ordering_list, SORT_DESC, $posts_repeater );

// loop through repeater
if( $posts_repeater ): ?>
<ul>

<?php foreach( $posts_repeater as $i => $row ): ?>
<?php
// if this post has been just downvoted
if ( $_GET['downvote'] && $_GET['downvote']==$row['id'] ) {
// update the points
$row['points'] = $row['points'] - 1;
update_post_meta(get_the_ID(), $row['data_name'], $row['points']);
//update_field($row['data_name'], $row['points']) ;
}
// if this post has been just upvoted
if ( $_GET['upvote'] && $_GET['upvote']==$row['id'] ) {
// update the points
$row['points'] = $row['points'] + 1;
update_post_meta(get_the_ID(), $row['data_name'], $row['points']);
//update_field($row['data_name'], $row['points']) ;
}
?>

<li><?php echo $i+1; ?>. <a href="<?php get_permalink($row['id']); ?>" target="_blank"><?php echo $row['post_name']; ?></a> - points: <?php echo $row['points']; ?> <span class="vote-link"><a href="?upvote=<?php echo $row['id']; ?>">Like</a> | <a href="?downvote=<?php echo $row['id']; ?>">Dislike</a></span></li>

<?php endforeach; ?>

</ul>

<?php endif; ?>


the above code will set different points for each page where you will create the collections rows. basically it will update the value of the meta field "points" of the specific row within this post/page
let me know if it wasn't what you were looking for.

cheers!
Andrea

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