use custom fields to call a category slug

I don’t understand exactly what you’re trying to do, but this code probably isn’t what you want to do:

$cat=get_post_custom_values($key = "name");

You might want

$cat=get_post_custom_values("name");

hi

let me try to explain in detail.

want to make a reusable template which drags posts from different categories with the same tag name on to one page.

example i want a different categories of a movie such a movie review, video, movie preview and etc having the tag name i.e of a particular movie on to one page.

so i cant hard code the category name in to the template. i want to use custom field to define the category and tag.

hope i was clear this time.

any assistance would be great.

want to make a reusable template which drags posts from different categories with the same tag name on to one page.

If you want to create a template that shows posts from particular category, just create a template file named like category-12.php where “12” is the category id number of the category whose posts you want to show.

Alternatively, if you have a regular page template, you can query posts by category and get the same results with the following:

query_posts(array('cat' => 12));

Or search by category name:

query_posts(array('category_name' => 'MyCategory'));