Accessing a particular instance of a repeater field

[thetuningspoon]

I'm stumped.

I have a repeater setup like so:

                        Repeater

      Repeater 1                 Repeater 2

Field 1      Field 2         Field 1      Field 2

If I know the ID of Repeater 1, how do I get the value of one of its child fields?

I tried  $page->get(id)->field_2  to no avail.

What I'm trying to do is maybe a bit complex/weird. Basically, I am looping through a repeater to populate a select box in a contact form (non form-builder, just my own php in the template). I need some sort of id to serve as the value attribute on the select option so that I can then use it to identify and pull the data from the other field in the same instance of that repeater when the form gets posted.

I hope that sort of makes sense...

[Wanze]

I'm not sure if this is still possible, but you should not use nested repeaters (repeater in repeater).

Can you give an example code of what you want to achieve, I think I didn't get it

[thetuningspoon]

It's not a nested repeater-- I'm just showing that it is one repeater with multiple instances on the page, i.e. it has two "items" added to it, with each item consisting of two fields.

So I guess the real question I'm asking is, how do I call just one of the instances of a repeater in the wirearray through the api? Should ID work?

[Soma]

What id, and from where you got it?

If you got the repeater id (which is a page behind the scenes) you just do.

echo $pages->get($id)->myfield;

[thetuningspoon]

Thank you Soma! That was it. I just needed to use $pages instead of $page