Loop within loop

  • Resolved Rakesh Raja

    (@rakeshraja)


    12 years, 2 months ago

    Ok

    I am using this in a custom page template called “Episodes”

    Ok here are requirements

    First one is custom post type “Performance” I call posts via

    query_posts( 'post_type=performance&meta_key=episode&meta_value=1' );

    Next one is episode

    I call posts via

    query_posts( array( 'post_type' => 'episode') );

    Episodes will have full episode videos while performance post type will have individual videos from that particular episode

    so to chain them together i have used a custom field called “episode”

    so what i want now is

    main loop episode and within that another loop for performance

    what i did is

    <?php
  query_posts( array( 'post_type' => 'episode') );
  if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
?>

 <?php $my_meta = get_post_meta($post->ID,'_my_meta',TRUE); ?>
<h1>Episode :<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'episode', true) ?></h1>
<h2><?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'season', true) ?></h2><Br /><br />
<?php the_content( __( 'Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span>', 'twentyeleven' ) ); ?>

  query_posts( 'post_type=performance&meta_key=episode&meta_value=1' );
  if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
?>

<li><?php the_content( __( 'Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span>', 'twentyeleven' ) ); ?></li>

<?php endwhile; endif; 

<?php endwhile; endif;  ?>

    But it gave me nested loops.. it just keep loading..

    here is my desired layout

    [1] Episode 1 – [custom field assigned “episode” as value of “1”]
    [2] 4 Performances – [custom field assigned “episode” as value of “1”]

    so in output on page should be like this

    [ EPISODE 1 ]

    [PERFORMANCE 1] [PERFORMANCE 2] [PERFORMANCE 3] [PERFORMANCE 4]

    Help

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  • Michael

    (@alchymyth)

    12 years, 2 months ago

    multiple loops http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop

    try and use WP_Query() for the inner loop http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query

    Thread Starter Rakesh Raja

    (@rakeshraja)

    12 years, 2 months ago

    Thanks Alchymyth… it worked

    here is final code for other people

    <?php
  query_posts( array( 'post_type' => 'episode') );
  if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
?>

 <?php $my_meta = get_post_meta($post->ID,'_my_meta',TRUE); ?>
<h1>Episode :<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'episode', true) ?></h1>
<h2><?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'season', true) ?></h2><Br /><br />
<?php the_content( __( 'Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span>', 'twentyeleven' ) ); ?>

<?php endwhile; endif;  ?>

<?php
  $query = new WP_Query( array ( 'post_type' => 'performance', 'meta_key' => 'episode', 'meta_value' => '1' ) );
while ( $query->have_posts() ) : $query->the_post();
?>

<li><?php the_content( __( 'Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span>', 'twentyeleven' ) ); ?></li>

<?php endwhile;   ?>
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