widget spitting out values as arrays instead of single items

You need to set the third parameter of get_post_meta to true in order to return a single value, default is false (an array of values).

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_post_meta

Example.

$my_field = get_post_meta( $post->ID, 'your-field-name', true );
if( $my_field )
   // Do whatever

Not sure i follow quite what it is the widget is doing but i see a few problems in your code.. so i’ll highlight them so you can make corrections.

Your calls to get_post_custom_values will always give you an array, that’s what that function is for, this will do pretty much the same as get_post_meta except there’s no option for returning a singular value (it’s always an array or nothing). Use get_post_meta as you have a few lines down if you want only a single value returned.

First loop..

foreach ( $link as $RNMkey => $RNMvalue ) {    $cvalue=$RNMvalue;   }

$cvalue will only ever be the value of the last array item, since you’re assigning the same variable with each iteration of the foreach loop (the last result will be what’s stored in $cvalue). If this is intended behaviour, you could do this instead..

// Last item in array
$cvalue = end( $link );

// or

// If you wanted the first item in array
$cvalue = current( $link );

Moving on, inside the next foreach loop are various lines like so..

$RNWidgetCheck= Music;

..

$RNWidgetCheck= Video;

Your values should have quotes around them..

Eg.

$RNWidgetCheck = 'Video';

I’m surprised the lines above didn’t cause PHP to throw up a few errors.

Could quite possibly be other problems, but those are the ones that stand out on first glance, so i hope that helps.. 😉

You’re welcome.. 🙂