From relationship items, pull meta values?

• thecorkboard

• February 5, 2014 at 8:58 am

Hello-
Your help is much appreciated.

Here’s the setup:

Page “Articles” has relationship field “select_articles” that allows for items to be pulled from posts in custom post type “library.” This custom post type has items that allow for a text field “library_citation”.

Here’s what I’m trying to do:

On page “Articles” with items selected in “select_articles” relationship field, show the “library_citation” entry for each “select_articles” entry.

I’ve searched through the forums for somewhat similar requests and I’ve tried some things without luck.

Thanks again for your help.

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• James

• February 5, 2014 at 12:18 pm

Hi there!

I’m presuming each citation is it’s own post? If so, the following should work.

$posts = get_field('select_articles');
 
if( $posts ): 
    
    foreach( $posts as $post): // variable must be called $post (IMPORTANT) 
        setup_postdata($post);
        
        the_title();
	the_content(); //print and format how and what you want from the citation post

endforeach;
   
wp_reset_postdata(); // IMPORTANT - reset the $post object so the rest of the page works correctly
endif;

Adapted from http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/field-types/relationship/

Let me know how you get on 🙂

• Elliot

• February 5, 2014 at 5:25 pm

Hi @thecorkboard

Adding to the above, you can then load the selected post’s metadata like so:

<?php 

$posts = get_field('select_articles');
 
if( $posts ): 
    
    foreach( $posts as $post): // variable must be called $post (IMPORTANT) 
    
        setup_postdata($post);
        
        $value = get_field('library_citation');

	endforeach;
   
	wp_reset_postdata(); // IMPORTANT - reset the $post object so the rest of the page works correctly

endif;

 ?>

• thecorkboard

• February 11, 2014 at 1:19 am

Thanks to both of you! Once I echoed the value the citation worked wonderfully. I now have it working as a choose from relationship field and as a selected category…now I have to figure out what’s better from a UX perspective.

Anyways, thanks. I’m very grateful of the support I receive on this forum.

• thecorkboard

• February 22, 2015 at 4:14 am

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