Title: Custom Fields to variable in PHP Last modified: March 30, 2018 --- # Custom Fields to variable in PHP * [pd5dj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/erazotropa/) * (@erazotropa) * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-fields-to-variable-in-php/) * Hi, All * I have a question regarding the custom fields function when creating a Page. * I have created a custom template page. * This cointains: * ``` ``` * This works, I get the header, footer and the redirected page in the middle of it. * Now I want to create a Custom Field named: “url-name” The value of the field is: “/logbook/log.php” * I want to pass this to a variable in to the custom template file in PHP. * I have tried this example: `ID, $key, true); ?>` Where $key = “url-name” * But I get nothing. * Any Advice would be apreciated. * Bjorn - This topic was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by [pd5dj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/erazotropa/). * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fcustom-fields-to-variable-in-php%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US) to see the link]_ Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total) * Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/) * (@bcworkz) * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-fields-to-variable-in-php/#post-10132881) * Well, your code says $key = “mykey”, not “url-name”. Easily fixed. Your other problem is probably $post->ID. $post is often not defined within the template’s scope. Generally, declaring `global $post;` fixes the scoping issue, but I think even better when you need a post ID is to use `get_the_ID()`. It works out all the vagaries of determining the post ID for you. I assume you wish to get the return value from get_post_meta() into the iframe src attribute. So in summary, try this: * ``` ``` Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total) The topic ‘Custom Fields to variable in PHP’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [custom fields](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/custom-fields/) * [php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/php/) * [variable](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/variable/) * In: [Developing with WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/wp-advanced/) * 1 reply * 2 participants * Last reply from: [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/) * Last activity: [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-fields-to-variable-in-php/#post-10132881) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics