Using Custom Fields In Functions

  • waterwing

    (@waterwing)


    16 years, 6 months ago

    Hey,

    This is my first go at posting here but I’m having a problem.
    I have moderate PHP knowledge but here is basically what I’m trying to do:

    Inside my template/theme, let’s say page.php, I am trying to set up a function that displays a custom field, but the name of the custom field is the variable.

    So right now it looks like this at the top of page.php:

    function contentitem($number) {

echo "<h3>"; echo get_post_meta($post->ID, "Name$number", true); echo "</h3>";

}

    then below, where I want it displayed, I have:

    contentitem("1");
contentitem("2");

    So far it isn’t grabbing that variable and using it in the function though. Maybe it is just a syntax error but I’m not sure. Thanks.

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    16 years, 6 months ago

    Try:

    function contentitem($number) {
	echo "<h3>";
	echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'Name'.$number, true);
	echo "</h3>";
}

    If that still doesn’t work, try echoing out $number in the contentitem function to check that the variable is being passed correctly.

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