Retrieve nested Post ID

• mwailes

• March 21, 2016 at 6:29 am

I’m having some difficulty in retrieving an ID from a post object. Here is the setup:

I have two different post-types: Jobs and Locations. On the jobs post type, I reference a location using the post-object form field.

What I want to be able to do on the locations page is show job listings that are at that location and that is where I run into trouble…I can’t seem to retrieve the location ID referenced in the job posting so that I can compare it to the current location post that is being output.

Here is my code thus far:

$job_posts = get_posts( array( 'post_type' => 'job_posting', 'posts_per_page' => -1, 'order'=> 'ASC', 'orderby' => 'title' ) );
foreach ( $job_posts as $job_post ) {
 $job_ID = $job_post->ID;
 $job_title = get_field("job_title",$job_ID);
 $job_location = get_field_object('location',$job_ID);

}

This returns an array for the $job_location variable. But try as I might, I cannot access the Location Post ID which is shown here:

...'value' => 
  WP_Post::__set_state(array(
     'ID' => 191,...

Any ideas? Thanks!

• mwailes

• March 21, 2016 at 8:18 am

Sheesh…just figured it out:

$job_location_ID = $job_post->location;

will give me the Location ID so that I can make a comparison.