Title: Array from custom fields
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Array from custom fields

 *  [cip6791](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cip6791/)
 * (@cip6791)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/array-from-custom-fields/)
 * I want to get all posts from a category on the archive page
 *     ```
       //get current category id
       $current_cat = get_query_var('cat');
   
       $args = array( 'category' => $current_cat, 'post_type' =>  'post' );
   
       $postslist = get_posts( $args );
   
       foreach ($postslist as $post) :  setup_postdata($post); 
   
       $test_meta = get_post_meta($post->ID);
   
       echo the_title();
   
       endforeach;
       ```
   
 * Each post has three custom fields which I need to create an array like the one
   below but I’m not sure how
 *     ```
       //create array
       $var = array(
           array("custom_field1", "custom_field2", "custom_field3"),
           array("custom_field1", "custom_field2", "custom_field3"),
   
       );
       ```
   

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 *  [vtxyzzy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vtxyzzy/)
 * (@vtxyzzy)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/array-from-custom-fields/#post-3966700)
 * See if this will do what you want (put your own meta_keys in the $keys_to_save
   array):
 *     ```
       //get current category id
          $current_cat = get_query_var('cat');
          $keys_to_save = array('key1','key2','key3');
          $args = array( 'category' => $current_cat, 'post_type' =>  'post' );
          $postslist = get_posts( $args );
          $var = array();
          foreach ($postslist as $post) :  setup_postdata($post);
             $test_meta = get_post_meta($post->ID);
             $vals = array();
             foreach ($keys_to_save as $key) {
                if (key_exists($key, $test_meta)) {
                   $vals[] = $test_meta[$key][0];
                }
             }
             if ($vals) {
                $var[] = $vals;
             }
             echo the_title();
          endforeach;
          print_r('<pre>VAR:');print_r($var);print_r('</pre>');
       ```
   

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## Tags

 * [array](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/array/)
 * [custom fields](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/custom-fields/)

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 * Last reply from: [vtxyzzy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vtxyzzy/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/array-from-custom-fields/#post-3966700)
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