Displaying Custom Field checkbox

  • Resolved jonoc73

    (@jonoc73)


    17 years ago

    Hi,

    I use the Custom Field Template plugin and it works great.

    I need to use some checkboxes to display a number of guides on a trip. I use the following to echo data input from the custom field:

    <?php  if((get_post_meta($post->ID, "guides",  true))) { ?>
Guides on this tour: <?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'guides',  TRUE); ?><?php } ?>

    But instead of displaying all the names selected by a checkbox button, it just lists the first one. What am I doing wrong?

    Thanks Jono

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  • MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    17 years ago

    You will want to use

    $single=false;
get_post_meta($post->ID, "guides",  $single);

    as the get_post_meta article says, “If $single is set to false, or left blank, the function returns an array containing all values of the specified key”

    Thread Starter jonoc73

    (@jonoc73)

    17 years ago

    Thanks Michael, I have probably done this wrong, but put the above into the code and it just returns the word Array instead of the tour guides names.

    <?php $single=false; echo get_post_meta($post->ID, "guides", $single); ?>

    Thanks Jono.

    MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    17 years ago

    Got to cycle through the returned array

    $guides=get_post_meta($post->ID, "guides", false);
if ($guides) {
foreach($guides as $guide) {
    echo  $guide;
}
}

    Thread Starter jonoc73

    (@jonoc73)

    17 years ago

    That’s great – thanks for your help it works, but it’s not too pretty though. How would I add a space and a comma into the code to get something like: John, Ben, Claire

    Also am I able to do something with each value. Say I used the if statement shown in the first post above, if the value is John do this and if the value is Ben do that?

    Thanks Jonathan

    MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    17 years ago

    You should be able to take this and run with it:

    <?php
$guides=get_post_meta($post->ID, "guides", false);
$out='';
$between =', ';
if ($guides) {
  foreach($guides as $guide) {
    if ('John' == $guide ) {
      $out .= $guide  . ' is a man' . $between;
    } elseif ('Mary' == $guide ) {
      $out .= $guide  . ' is a woman' . $between;
    } else {
      $out .= $guide . $between;
    }
  }
  echo substr($out,0,-2);  //output all but the last ', '
}
?>

    http://us3.php.net

    Thread Starter jonoc73

    (@jonoc73)

    17 years ago

    Michael, You’re helping loads – thanks once again.

    When I asked if I was able to do something with each value I meant doing something like including a template path for example.

    I should have explained it more sorry.

    If the value is John I want to include a template where I can include his photo, contact info etc.

    <?php } else { include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/guides/john.php'); } ?>

    If the value includes Mary I want to include a template where I can include her photo, contact info etc.

    <?php } else { include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/guides/mary.php'); } ?>

    Thanks for your help so far – it’s been great.

    Jonathan

    Thread Starter jonoc73

    (@jonoc73)

    17 years ago

    I took a look at the code again and it’s simple really isn’t it!

    I replace

    if ('John' == $guide )
{$out .= $guide  . ' is a man' . $between;}

    with

    if ('John' == $guide )
{include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/guides/john.php'); }

    Thanks for your help.

    Jonathan

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