Repeating fields for project pages

project-staff

<?php 
global $project_mb;
$project_mb->the_meta();

$i = 0;
while($project_mb->have_fields('links') || $project_mb->have_fields('paststaff') ) {
if($i == 0) 
	{ ?>

	<div id="info-staff" class="column left">

	<h2 class="column-title">Participating MITH Staff</h2>

		<ul>            
	<?php } // endif  
		$staffname = $project_mb->get_the_value('projectstaff');
		$paststaffname = $project_mb->get_the_value('past-projectstaff'); ?>
		
			<li><a href="<?php echo get_permalink($staffname); ?>" class="c-staff-link"><?php echo get_the_title($staffname); ?></a></li>
			<li><a href="<?php echo get_permalink($paststaffname); ?>" class="p-staff-link"><?php echo get_the_title($paststaffname); ?></a></li>
			
		<?php $i++; } // endwhile 
		
		if ($i > 0 ) { ?>
		
		</ul>
		
	</div>
	
	<?php } // endif ?>
	<!-- /project-staff -->

Yeah, I generally try to do the open/close thing unless it's misbehaving. Sometimes I've had the information not show up properly when I do it with regular HTML, but it's probably fixable without echoing if I kept at it. Regardless, this is a good call and I will try to make open/close php tags standard unless absolutely necessary.

Did you already use the the_field() command to switch fields inside of a while loop? Looking at the WP_Alchemy website, it seems that they want you to set it up so that you pull the data once (do the while $project->have_fields() one time) then switch between data fields by either the_field or the_value calls.

If that isn't working, what I would suggest is that we take a look at your data model and see if it's not satisfying what you're asking it. Sometimes the issue with my stuff is that I design the data for one purpose, then find that I query for something totally different and have to go back and re-design the database. It's painful, but pays off in the long run.