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1. ixwa
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   I've seen various questions asked in this vein but nothing definitively about just having the loop accessible from a function. I have a very good reason to want the loop in a function--essentially as a lookup from a posted form. Simple.

   This is what I have:

   global $post;
   global $the_query;
   
   function myFunction(){
   
   $args = array(
   	'category_name' => 'my-category-name',
   	'orderby' => 'title',
   	'order' => 'ASC',
   	'posts_per_page' => '-1'
   );
   
   $the_query = new WP_Query( $args );
   
   	//Show posts
   	if ( $the_query->have_posts() ) {
   
   		while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) : $the_query->the_post();
   		$myPosts .= get_post_meta($post->ID, 'mycustomfieldname', true);
   		endwhile;
   
   	}
   
   return $myPosts;
   }

   This is before I've even added any vars to the function call; all I get right now is one line of all the titles of each record (seemingly concatenated) and then a bunch of empty lines.

   Do I have a glaring syntax error or am I going about the function all wrong?

2. SpankMarvin
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   I think you need to bring your global variables inside the function.

3. SpankMarvin
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   $the_query is also not a valid global variable. Try $wp_query instead. That said, unless you are trying to override the default query, there’s no reason to bring in the global variables at all.

   J

4. ixwa
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   OK, thanks. Here's what I learned...although I still have one remaining issue, see below. Hopefully this helps someone.

   My $wp_query was originally called $the_query...not sure why (I think I had copied it), but I changed this to use "wp". $post must be global WITHIN the function. Not necessary to make $wp_query global.

   BUT.

   the_title() does not appear to work inside the loop. All it does is print out every post title in a single line, without spaces, and then proceeds to complete the loop normally (without titles). I have no idea why; everything else in the loop works. I tried instead referencing the post title using $post->name but this didn't work.

   Any ideas? Any other way to reference the title of a post inside a loop?

5. ixwa
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   Solved. The answer is to use the_title('','',false) in this loop as the_title() by itself just spits out all post titles at once, for some reason.

   FYI: get_the_title() did not work in this function loop.

   For those wanting to understand the setup: I'm running this function in a Page that calls the posts from a specific category (so yes, in some experiments I was getting the Page's title, not the individual Post titles).

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