Echo values for custom fields with the same ‘key’ value

[cre8tive1]

Hi all,

I’m working on my first WP site that uses custom fields. I’ve created a custom field titled “Testimonials”. I have added three instances of that custom field to this page http://snorkel.jerryrossphotography.com/dolphins/

I’m trying to display all 3 instances of the “Testimonial” field in the sidebar. However, I can only get 1 to display.

Any suggestions?

Below is the code within my sidebar.

/*

Template Name: Testimonials

*/

?>



Rates


ID, 'Rates', true);?>

ID, 'Details', true);?>



Includes: 




Reserve Now


For more information and to book a trip contact us at:


Tel: 808-987-1584 or email us.


Testimonials


ID, 'Testimonial', true);?>

[gno]

I have not worked alot with wordpress – at all. So I might be completely wrong…

But if it was just plain PHP, I’d say that you miss some kind of loop. A while or foreach loop would do the job.

You only make one call to the get_post_meta function. I could imagine that there would be a function named get_post_meta_all, or something like it, that returned an array with all the values from the custom field of your choice…

I hope you’ll figure something out :-)

[jamygolden]

Try this – I haven’t tested it though:

ID, 'Testimonial', true) ) : ?>

">

[cre8tive1]

Based on the above, I modified it to echo out the value of the ‘Testimonial’ custom field. However, I’m still only getting the first instance of ‘Testimonial’ to display. The page below has 3 instances of the custom field.

http://snorkel.jerryrossphotography.com/dolphins/

ID, 'Testimonial', true) ) : ?>

[gno]

Im back again after a good nights sleep. I’m sorry, but I was too lazy to look this up last night.

A quick view in the wordpress documentation revealed that my suspicion was right.

You should not use get_post_meta(), but get_post_custom_values(). It does the same thing, but is for when you have customfields with non unique keys. It returns an array that you can throw in a foreach.

Link to the manual page: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_post_custom_values

Example, build on the code from the OP:

/* You can add a second parameter to this call.

* It's a post ID - if you dont specify one, it will be current */

?>

Testimonials



foreach ($testimonialsArray as $foo => $testimonial) {

echo '
'.$testimonial.'
';

}

?>

EDIT: (I have no idea why it screwed the coloring and indexing of the code above…)

[cre8tive1]

Perfect. That worked. I really need to improve my php skills. I had read that reference in your link multiple times, but couldn’t figure out the syntax.

Thanks for the help!

[gno]

Your welcome. Glad it worked. :-)

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