Reply To: “Reverse Lookup” via Attachment Custom Field

• JustinPratscher

• September 2, 2023 at 7:46 pm

Thanks for the help. This makes sense to me, but I’m getting bool(false) when I var_dump the first query.

Using this:

  $image_meta_image_id = $_GET["image_id"];
  echo $image_meta_image_id;  // doing this to make sure it's getting it from the URL.
  // first you do a query for attachments looking for the exact image_meta_image_id
  $args = array(
      'fields' => 'ids', // return only IDs to use in the next query
      'posts_per_page'    => 1, // there should only be one image
                                // with this "image_meta_image_id"
      'post_type'      => 'attachment',
      'meta_query'    => array(
    		array(
    			'key'	 	=> 'image_meta_image_id',
    			'value'	  	=> $image_meta_image_id
    		)
    	)
  );
  $attachment_query = new WP_Query( $args );

  $attachments = $attachment_query->posts();

  echo "<pre>";
  var_dump( $attachments );
  echo "</pre>";

I’ve confirmed that the image I’m trying to get has the correct value for its image_meta_image_id field (It’s 17574).

Any ideas?

Thanks a bunch for the help!