Custom Fields

URL?

Hi Sorry it’s on a local server so I don’t have a URL, but here is the code for the page, would be most grateful for any ideas:

<?php
/*
Template Name: Portfolio-detail
*/
?>
<?php
require 'header-portfolio.php';
?>

<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

<div id="portfolio-feature" style="background:#000 url(<?php $key="background"; echo get_post_meta($post->ID, $key, true); ?>) center center;">

<div id="slider">
<?php the_content('') ?>
<img src="<?php $key="thumbnail"; echo get_post_meta($post->ID, $key, true); ?>" width="250" height="120" alt="thumb"/>
</div>

</div>

<div id="content-wrapper">

<div id="content">

<div class="content-left portfolio-page">

<div id="buttons">
        <a href="#" id="btn-prev"></a>
        <a href="#" id="btn-pause"></a>
        <a href="#" id="btn-play"></a>
        <a href="#" id="btn-next"></a>
</div>

<h1><?php the_title('') ?></h1>

<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php wp_reset_query(); ?>

</div>

</div>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

Sorry it’s on a local server so I don’t have a URL…

Fair enough… and the only acceptable excuse. ☺

I don’t see any reason to set the $key variable. I’d just write the key into the function and I’d put quotes around the url() string like so: style="background:url('<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, "background", true); ?>'). Minor points though. I don’t see why your code is failing. Load the page, view-source, and see if everything looks right. You might check permissions on the images too.

Thanks apljdi – I tried that, but no joy.

However I think I’m beggining to see the source of the problem: Does WordPress treat template pages differently?

I’m trying to achieve this on a post that has a template assigned to it so I detached the post from the template and added the custom field code to single.php

style="background:#000 url(<?php echo get_post_meta('<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, "background", true); ?>'); ?>

when I reload the page the post then loaded from the default single.php and the background image works fine.

Soooo…

I copied all the code from single.php into my template (so the two files were exactly the same) and then re-assigned it to the post – I reloaded and . . . . it’s gone!

The code works for me, though of course I had to use a meta_key that exists in my install. What exactly does your echo get_post_meta statement return? And why do you have nested get_post_meta’s?

Does WordPress treat template pages differently?

Well, yes… but not in a way that should effect this. How are you ‘assigning’ the post to the page?

Jeez sorry – I posted that code incorrectly, I didn’t mean to nest anything (this is frying my brain!).

I meant to post:

style="background:url('<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, "background", true); ?>')

i.e. the original recommendation by yourself!

My get_post_meta statement returns nothing – the background url is just blank! (except the single quote marks).

However if I use the <?php the_meta(); ?> function it returns the two custom fields exactly as I would expect them to look.

My get_post_meta statement returns nothing – the background url is just blank! (except the single quote marks).

Ok. That is getting somewhere. Either $post->ID is empty or there is no meta_key = “background” in the database associated with the post. Echo $post->ID by itself to see what happens.