Field Data

Please understand

You never should rely on the data structure as it may change in the future. There will be a PHP class ACFTablefield to get and change the data.

A table fields data and settings are stored in one serialized array in a post meta entry.

Data Structure

Here is an example of a table and the raw data stored in the database expressed as JSON. Depending on where the table field data is processed, it is a Javascript object or a PHP array.

Example table

A	B
1	some
2	thing

Table data object as JSON

{ 
	"t":{ // table 
		"o":{ // table options 
			"ca":"", // caption 
			"ct":"ed", // content type 
			"tb":"basic", // toolbar for wysiwyg editor 
			"uh":"y", // use header 
			"uf":"n", // use footer 
			"sc":"n", // use stub column 
			"st":"n", // style 
			"cols":"2", // amount of columns 
			"rows":"3", // amount of columns 
			"changed":"true" // default table was changed 
		} 
	}, 
	"c":[ // columns options 
		{ // columns row 
			"c": [ // column cells 
				{ // column 
					"o":{} // column options 
				}, 
				{ 
					"o":{} 
				} 
			] 
		}, 
	], 
	"h":[ // table header 
		{ // header row 
			"c": [ // header cells 
				{ // a header cell 
					"c":"A",  // a header cell content 
					"o":{}  // a header cell options 
				}, 
				{ 
					"c":"B", 
					"o": {} 
				} 
			], 
			"o":{} // the header row options 
		}, 
	], 
	"b":[ // table body 
		{ // a table body row 
			"c": [ // a body row cells 
				{ 
					"c":"1", // a body cell content 
					"o":{} // a body cell options 
				}, 
				{ 
					"c":"some", 
					"o":{} 
				} 
			], 
			"o":{} // a body row options 
		}, 
		{ 
			"c": [ 
				{ 
					"c":"2", 
					"o":{} 
				}, 
				{ 
					"c":"thing", 
					"o":{} 
				} 
			], 
			"o":{} 
		} 
	], 
	"p":[ // parameters 
		"v": "1.0.0", // table field plugin version 
		"fk": "field_664dcdcdd4983", // ACF field key 
		"fn": "table" // ACF field name 
	], 
}

Table Object

Table options structure

{ 
	"t":{ 
		"o":{ 
			"uh":"y" 
		} 
	} 
}

The object "t" stands for parameters of this table. This parameter object has an object "o" which stands for options.

Table options list

Name	Decription	Type	Value	Module
ca	Table caption	string		caption
changed	Whether the table content was edited	boolean	false/true	main
uh	Use header	string	y/n	thead
uf	Use footer	string	y/n	tfoot
cols	Amount of the table body colums	integer		cols_rows_limit
rows	Amount of the table body rows	integer		cols_rows_limit
ct	Content type of cells	string	st/ed	cell_content_type
tb	Toolbar for wysiwyg editor	string	full/basic	editor
st	Style	string		table_styles
sc	Stub Column	string	n	stub_column