Adding Custom Fields to search results excerpt

Hi I am using Ajax Search Pro and currently the search results excerpt pulls from content and is one long sentence. I wanted to have the search results excerpt return a list like this:

Phone Number:
Serving Area:
Email:

The above information (phone number, serving area, and email) currently exist in content, taxonomies and custom fields. I added to taxonomies and custom fields in the process of testing ways to parse the data.

Ajax Search Pro uses a result template, code included below.

?>
<div class='item asp_result_<?php echo $r->content_type; ?>'>

    <?php do_action('asp_res_vertical_begin_item'); ?>

    <div class='content'>

        <?php if (!empty($r->image)): ?>

            <?php do_action('asp_res_vertical_before_image'); ?>

            <div class='image'>
                <img src='<?php echo $r->image; ?>'>
                <div class='void'></div>
            </div>

            <?php do_action('asp_res_vertical_after_image'); ?>

        <?php endif; ?>

       <h3><a href='<?php echo $r->link; ?>'<?php echo ($s_options['results_click_blank'])?" target='_blank'":""; ?>>
                <?php echo $r->title; ?>
                <?php if ($s_options['resultareaclickable'] == 1): ?>
                <span class='overlap'></span>
                <?php endif; ?>
        </a></h3>

        <?php if ( !empty($r->date) || !empty($r->author) ): ?>

        <div class='etc'>

            <?php if ( $s_options['showauthor'] == 1 && !empty($r->author) ): ?>
            <span class='author'><?php echo $r->author; ?></span>
            <?php endif; ?>

            <?php if ( $s_options['showdate'] == 1 && !empty($r->date) ): ?>
            <span class='date'><?php echo $r->date; ?></span>
            <?php endif; ?>

        </div>

        <?php endif; ?>

        <?php if ($s_options['showdescription'] == 1): ?>
        <!--<p class='desc'>-->
            <?php echo $r->content; ?>
        <!--</p>-->
        <?php endif; ?>

    </div>

    <?php do_action('asp_res_vertical_after_content'); ?>

    <div class='clear'></div>

    <?php do_action('asp_res_vertical_end_item'); ?>

</div>
<div class="asp_spacer"></div>

The plug-in developer provided the following information:

Printing post meta into the content

Since you have access to the post ID via the $r->id, you can get custom field values and put them before/after the content easily.

If you look ate lines 76-80 in vertical.php, you see the content is being printed there:

<?php if ($s_options['showdescription'] == 1): ?>

    <?php echo $r->content; ?>

<?php endif; ?>

Let’s get and print a meta value there in a custom div element and modify the code like this:

<?php
// This is the meta key
$key = 'my_meta_key';

// We only want to do this on posts/pages/custom post types
if ($r->content_type == 'pagepost') {
  $meta_value = get_post_meta( $r->id, $key, true );
  if ($meta_value != '')
    echo "<div class='my_class'>" . $meta_value . "</div>";
}
?>

<?php if ($s_options['showdescription'] == 1): ?>

    <?php echo $r->content; ?>

<?php endif; ?>

If the post meta with the ‘my_meta_key’ exists, then it will be printed before the description, inside a new div element.

I edited and added the above code to this:

<?php
// This is the meta key
$key = 'phonenumber';

// We only want to do this on posts/pages/custom post types
if ($r->content_type == 'pagepost') {
  $meta_value = get_post_meta( $r->id, $key, true );
  if ($meta_value != '')
    echo "<div class='my_class'>" . $meta_value . "</div>";
}
?>

This code only returns “array” in the search results excerpt. Can someone please point me in the right direction? I do not know if it is best to parse the taxonomies or the custom fields or if there is a way to display the content in the excerpt as a list. Any advice is greatly appreciated!