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1. jami1955
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   This code:
   <?php $events = _get_page_by_name(''); ?>
   gets the page with the name specified - but ONLY if the page name is one word. Any two or more word page name will not function. How can I call a page with this method that has two words in the name, ie: a page titled
   About Me
   the code <?php $events = _get_page_by_name('About Me'); ?> does not work. Any way to get that working with multiple word titled pages?
   thanks
   JSC

2. Mark / t31os
   Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Try get_page_by_title, it seems to work with spaces just fine..
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_page_by_title

3. jami1955
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Sorry, I didn't provide enuf info. My home page is diff. from my blog index page. You're right, that code will work. But I have another function at work, which is in my theme the ability to take the short content from a page, and print it somewhere else, like on the "homepage". Here's the code that does that:
   

   <?php $events = _get_page_by_name('events'); ?>
   <?=_get_short_info($events->post_content)?>

   The 2nd line of code calls the page name and writes the specified content ($events->post_content). That call cannot have any spaces in it. Hence it only works with page titles of one word. Is there a way to modify that second line of code, or set it up so that it can work with a page name of more than one word (which therefore has spaces in it)?
   thanks
   JSC

4. Mark / t31os
   Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   You're not passing the page name into the function, you're extracting the content($events->post_content) from the fetched post($events), and passing that into the function..

   The 2nd line of code calls the page name and writes the specified content ($events->post_content).

   Incorrect, the second line calls a function(_get_short_info), passing in the content property of a post object(which in this case is the $events variable).

5. jami1955
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Thanks Mark for the explanation of how it's working. I wonder if there's a way to solve the problem I presented...? Can I get the funtion to work calling a page with a title of more than one word which means there's a space in it, by modifying that code? I've included the function from the theme functions.php below.

   thanks
   JSC

   function _get_page_by_name($page_name, $output = OBJECT) {
   	global $wpdb;
   	$page = $wpdb->get_var( $wpdb->prepare( "SELECT ID FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_name = %s AND post_type='page'", $page_name ));
   	if ( $page )
   		return get_page($page, $output);
   
   	return null;
   }

   function _get_project_info( $what, $info ) {
   	$info = explode('<!--more-->', $info);
   
   	if( $what == 'image' )
   		return $info[0];
   
   	if( $what == 'small_image' ) {
   		$image_formats = array('.jpg"', '.png"', '.gif"');
   		$small_image = '';
   		foreach($image_formats as $image_format) {
   			if(strstr($info[0], $image_format)) {
   				$small_image = str_replace($image_format, '170x130' . $image_format, $info[0]);
   				break;
   			}
   		}
   		return $small_image;
   	}
   
   	if( $what == 'short_info' )
   		return $info[1];
   
   	if( $what == 'long_info' )
   		return $info[2];
   
   	return '';
   
   }

   and

   function _get_short_info( $text ){
   	$t = explode('<!--more-->', $text);
   	return $t[0];
   }

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