Display meta_value based on URL

• mbprouser

• February 8, 2016 at 11:18 pm

Hi there,

ok, so I have a post that I’ve build which allows a CSV to be uploaded and parsed into an HTML table, plus a few other bits of information. ACF does a great job here. This would be a ‘draw’ for a race. Now sometime later I repeat the process for the ‘results’ page – it has extra information like a race report, plus the actual HTML table of results. There is required field to go back to the ‘draw’ post as well.

Now, on the original ‘draw’ post it would be great to have a link to the ‘results’ post and done automatically.I’m pretty certain this can be done as the ‘results’ page stores the link back to the ‘drafts’ page.

So far I’ve come up with this:

<?php
$resultLink = get_permalink( $post->ID );
$posts = get_posts(array(
	'numberposts'	=> -1,
	'post_type'		=> 'post',
	'meta_key'		=> 'draw_link',
	'meta_value'	=> 
));

?>
<?php foreach( $posts as $post ): 
setup_postdata( $post )
?>
	Output the link</P>
<?php endforeach; ?>

<?php wp_reset_postdata(); ?>

Somehow I’m hoping that I can get the post to say, ‘hey the meta_value for draw_link is the same as my URL’ so it will then show a link to the post which first has the meta_key/meta_value pair.

So any help would be great. Does all that make sense?

Chris

• John Huebner

• April 6, 2016 at 11:00 am

What type of field is the draw_link field?

• mbprouser

• April 6, 2016 at 7:28 pm

Hi John,

it would be a Page Link to a post. Thanks for taking the time to look at my request.

regards, Chris

• John Huebner

• April 7, 2016 at 7:03 am

after some digging it appears my first question didn’t matter, the page link field stores the post ID, but there will be a problem if something other than a post is selected, not sure what is stored for those.

$resultLink = get_permalink( $post->ID );
$posts = get_posts(array(
	'numberposts'	=> -1,
	'post_type'		=> 'post',
	'meta_key'		=> 'draw_link',
	'meta_value'	=>  $post->ID
));