Get custom fields from multiple metaboxes

  • nemci7v

    (@nemci7v)


    13 years ago

    I have multiple metabox panels in my write posts. Is it possible to get the names and values of all fields belonging to each metabox?

    In my posts I’m currently using a loop (shown below) that gets the values of all fields but I need to have them in sections based on metaboxes. Is that possible?

    $custom_field_keys = get_post_custom_keys();
  foreach ( $custom_field_keys as $key => $value ) {
    $valuet = trim($value);
      if ( '_' == $valuet{0} )
      continue;

      echo get_post_meta($post->ID, $value, true);
      echo "<br />";
  }
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  • The section will not be saved so you will need to include the section ID in the field name like:
    ‘product_code’, product_brand, product_price
    ‘item_size’, ‘item_color’, item_style

    Then split the value by the ‘_’ to get the section, use a switch statement to set the section.

    This sounds like an ideal scenario for custom post types have a read of the links in the More Information, there are a few posts about them.

    Also there was a talk on these at the London WordPress Meetup

    HTH

    David

    Thread Starter nemci7v

    (@nemci7v)

    Thanks for the reply David! I’m not sure how “post types” is relevant to what I need. I’m working with custom fields in posts. In my functions.php file I’m registering multiple metaboxes using multiple arrays for each set of fields:

    $meta_boxes[] = array(
	'id' => 'products',
	'title' => 'Products',
	'pages' => array('post', 'page', 'link'), // multiple post types, accept custom post types
	'context' => 'normal', // normal, advanced, side (optional)
	'priority' => 'high', // high, low (optional)
	'fields' => array(
		array(
                        'name' => 'something',
			'id' => $prefix . 'something',
			'desc' => '',
			'type' => 'checkbox'
		      ),
                 //more arrays for other fields
	         )
           );

//another metabox array

$meta_boxes[] = array(
	'id' => 'customers',
	'title' => 'Customers',
//etc...

    I’m able to echo all fields in a post using:

    $custom_field_keys = get_post_custom_keys();
foreach ( $custom_field_keys as $key => $value ) {
	$valuet = trim($value);

	if ( '_' == $valuet{0} )
		continue;
		echo $value . ":<br />";
		echo get_post_meta($post->ID, $value, true) . "<br/><br/>";
}

    My goal is to get fields for specific metaboxes. For example get all field values of “products” or “customers”.

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