Bug in get_post_meta ?

Still trying to figure this out. If I hard code a post number, such as:

<?php echo get_post_meta('602', "qanda", $single = true); ?>

the value of the custom field “qanda” will echo. But the code won’t take the post ID generated by the query loop.

Any ideas? Thanks, Mark

Still trying to figure this out. Why isn’t get_post_meta getting the the dynamic post ID? Thanks, Mark

Use….
$my_query->post->ID

In the get_post_meta …

$post->ID will refer to the current post (in the normal loop) and not the one in your custom loop..

Jeez, that was pretty simple. I tried $the_post->ID, but that next logical step in passing the post ID from my_query escaped me. And it works with multiple loops on the same page/post. Thanks much.

When you’re writing code and passing variables around, to make it easier on yourself, dump the data you need to look at on the screen while testing…

print '<pre>';
print_r($var);
print '</pre>';

That will happily print out the contents of an array, object or string…

The <pre> tags just format the code in a manner that is more readable..

For example, to see what is stored in $my_query…

print '<pre>';
print_r($my_query);
print '</pre>';

Glad i was able to help anyway… ??

That’s slick. Thanks. Someone on stackoverflow.com said I should dump variables using var_dump but it didn’t work for some reason, as now I realize I had that syntax wrong, too:

<?php print '<pre>';
var_dump($my_variable);
print '</pre>'; ?>

Prefer print_r to var_dump myself…

I usually add a small function for the job if i’m testing stuff though, save having to add pre tags everytime…

function printpre( $data ) {
  print '<pre>';
  print_r( $data );
  print '</pre>';
}