Intended sidebar not appearing

I’ve got a page template called individual_companies.php which is a child page of companies.php

Companies.php includes sidebar.php for it’s sidebar content.

I want the individual_companies.php to have a different sidebar. So this is what i did:

I took individual_companies.php and replaced this line of code:

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

with this:

<?php
     $custom_sidebar = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'sidebar', true);
     get_sidebar($custom_sidebar);
?>

Are there any considerations i have to make to include a different sidebar. The code i pasted above is within the loop.

When i use the regular get_sidebar, it works normally by including the sidebar.php

The custom field name i added on the page (individual_companies.php page) is sidebar and the value is companies_sidebar.

Have a look here

the filename for the sidebar is companies_sidebar.php

Any help is greatly appreciated..Thanks alot

Jaysone