IMDB ID Value

Hi Matt,

Don’t bother with Shortcodes, especially if you’re just generating an URL. Movie metadata are regular posts meta, so this simple piece of code will do the job:

$imdb_id = get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), '_wpmoly_movie_imdb_id', $single = true );
$url = esc_url( 'https://www.imdb.com/title/' . $imdb_id );

If you want to extend this to every occurrence of an IMDb ID, try using this code instead ??

Thanks, but I don’t follow? I’ve pasted that in (with <? and ?>) around it, but nothing seems be be outputted?

Ah, sorry about that, should have mentioned you need a echo somewhere for this to be displayed. Replace your initial

https://www.imdb.com/title/<?php echo do_shortcode('[movie_imdb_id]');?>

With

<?php echo esc_url( 'https://www.imdb.com/title/' . get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), '_wpmoly_movie_imdb_id', true ) ); ?>

And you should be good to go!

Great!! Thank you SO much ??

You’re welcome!