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1. reneequinn
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #
   

   Hi there,

   Hacking my way through PHP - most of the time okay but cannot work this out so thought I'd ask a far greater power!

   I'm trying to echo a field from setup using the advanced custom fields plugin. The query's working fine on another template but I can't get the echo to work and I'm sure it's to do with my 'newbie' status.

   The code I'm getting blurry eyed over is ,,,

   <?php $args = array(
       'numberposts' => 3,
       'offset' => 0,
       'orderby' => 'post_date',
       'order' => 'DESC',
       'post_type' => 'publications',
       'meta_query' => array(
               array(
                       'key' => 'project',
                       'value' => $post->ID,
               )
       )
   );
   $posts_array = get_posts( $args );
   if( $posts_array ) {
       foreach( $posts_array as $related ) {
   		echo '<a href="' . $related->guid . '">' . linked words . '</a>';
       }
   }

   I want it to echo a field from the related post rather than the guid:

   echo '<a href="<?php the_field('field_name'); ?>">' . linked words . '</a>';

   But the " and the ' syntax isn't correct - the ' ' around the field_name stuffs up the code.

   There's probably an easy, easy answer but stuffed it I can work it out.

   Any one got any ideas?

   Thanks in advance

2. luckdragon
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #
   

   the positioning of your ' and " are correct, however you are doing <? and ?> within an echo statement, which is already between <? and ?> so that is confusing the situation, not the quotations

   echo '<a href="'.the_field('field_name').'">'.$linked_words.'</a>';

3. reneequinn
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #
   

   Thanks LuckyDragon.

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