Custom field (get_post_meta) issue

  • Resolved Guido

    (@guido07111975)


    9 years, 9 months ago

    Hi,

    I’m having trouble to display the value of a custom select field in frontend of my website.

    1) I have added this custom select field in backend:

    woocommerce_wp_select(
array(
	'id'      => 'myfieldname',
	'label'   => __( 'My Select Field', 'woocommerce' ),
	'options' => array(
		'one'   => __( 'Option 1', 'woocommerce' ),
		'two'   => __( 'Option 2', 'woocommerce' ),
		'three' => __( 'Option 3', 'woocommerce' )
		)
	)
);

    2) I save value like this:

    update_post_meta( $post_id, 'myfieldname', esc_attr( $_POST['myfieldname'] ) );

    3) Display it on frontend:

    echo get_post_meta(get_the_ID(), 'myfieldname', true );

    BUT, after I select for example ‘option 2’ in backend, this is displayed in frontend like this: ‘two’

    So part ‘Option 2’ is not displayed. Guess something’s wrong with code of step 3?

    Guido

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  • Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    There’s not really anything wrong, you’re just a bit confused about what’s going on. I’m not familiar with the woo select function, but based on your described results, I’m certain it outputs <option> lines which, for the ‘two’ option, would look like this:
    <option value="two">Option 2</option>

    Thus when this option is selected, the value in $_POST['myfieldname'] would naturally be “two”, so your script 2 will store it as such and your script 3 displays it.

    You have several options on how to end up displaying ‘Option 2’. Write your own select/option HTML output where the values are set correctly. Change the array key names passed to the woo select function. In either script 2 or 3 use an array like the woo options argument to translate ‘two’ back to ‘Option 2’. Instead of a translation array, you could hard code a PHP switch/case structure to do the same thing.

    One choice is probably more efficient than the others, I’m not sure which. I would suggest the write your own option unless there’s a reason I’m unaware of to use one of the others.

    Thread Starter Guido

    (@guido07111975)

    Hi,

    Thanks for your response!
    I did not thought about the possibility this is a woocommerce issue > so it might handle the select box different from default WP select box in frontend.

    I will work on this.

    Guido

    Thread Starter Guido

    (@guido07111975)

    @bcworkz: I decided to open a topic in Woocommerce forum because I have no idea how to solve this…

    https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/get_post_meta-get-value-of-selectbox?

    Guido

    Thread Starter Guido

    (@guido07111975)

    @bcworkz: Yes, I have solved it:
    https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/get_post_meta-get-value-of-selectbox?

    Guido

    Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    Nice work! Thanks for reporting back.

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