Display an include from a Custom Field Value

jonoc, if you only need to check the field for one value then get_post_meta should be set to true, and you don’t need the foreach loop.

If that’s the case, then something like this may get you started..

<?php
	$gt_guides=get_post_meta($post->ID, "gt_guides", true);
	if ($gt_guides) {
		switch($gt_guides) {
			case 'Phil':
			case 'Ro':
			case 'Nic':
			case 'Jef':
			case 'Ben':
			case 'Brend':
			case 'Crys':
			case 'Kev':
			case 'Peter':
			case 'Shane':
			case 'Dan':
			case 'Lynne':
			case 'Alex':
				$flname = 'guides-'.strtolower($gt_guides).'.php';
				if(file_exists(TEMPLATEPATH . '/includes/guides/'.$flname.'')) {
					include_once(TEMPLATEPATH . '/includes/guides/'.$flname.'');
				}
				else {
					echo 'Failed to include (TEMPLATEPATH . \'/includes/guides/'.$flname;
				}
			break;
			default:
				// Something to do when the field has a value but not matched to the cases above
			break;
		}
	}
	else {
		// If you hit this 'ELSE', then the custom field (post meta field) does not exist for this post/page
		echo 'No value in custom field gt_guides';
	}
?>

Still stvwlf is right, a little clarification would be most helpful… 🙂

Please answer the questions I asked before…

Give an example of typical custom fields you will have on a post – their keys and values, listing all of them from one post – keys and values

And then, what do you want to do with them. If there are 3 for example and you only want one to be used, how do you determine which to use.

Hi –
when you say

The above code does work

I am assuming you are referring to your original code that started this thread, and not the code that t31os_ suggested – let me know if that is not what you mean.

You said in the first post that

When this script runs with only one guide selected it displays 3 times.

The reason it displays three times is because

I have a custom fields key of gt_guides and there are a list of checkboxes for the staff giving values of Phil Rob Nic and Jef etc.

I assume from this that more than one custom field with the same KEY is being created for each post. Your original code calls get_post_meta, which creates an array that contains one element for every OCCURRENCE of the key gt_guides. Your code is not checking the VALUE assigned to an occurrence of that key, it is executing once per occurrence. So it is running whether or not the box is checked. You need to include a test that checks the value, and only run the code when the box is checked.

There is a function you call, <?php get_post_custom_values($key, $post_id); ?>
( see http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_post_custom_values ) to loop through and check the values assigned.

I think this addresses what you are after.