Help needed using Magic Fields 'Related Type'

ok what return get(‘my-related-field’) ? return the correct post_id ?

Yes, that works to return the post ID, but I want the post title instead.

if you set post->ID in get for related-post-title, return the correct value?

<?php echo get(‘related-post-title’, 1, 1, false, 123)); ?>

Got there in the end!

As long as I was able to return the ID for the content my related type field was selecting, I could then use the two WordPress functions to just return the Title & Permalink that I needed

<?php $related_content = get('my-related-field'); ?>

<?php echo get_permalink($related_content); ?>

<?php echo get_the_title($related_content); ?>

If anyone spots any fatal flaws in my plan here, please let me know!

PS @hunk, I pestered you directly via email on this earlier, via the magic fields website. I didn’t realise it was you trying to help me here!

Have also just got this to work to retrieve the featured image of the related content, if it helps anyone out!?

<?php echo get_the_post_thumbnail($related_content, 'my-custom-thumbnail'); ?>

Hi there,
i wondered how to display ‘related type’ when the field is duplicated.
When i use :

<?php>
    $related_content = get_order_field('my-related-field');
    foreach($related_content as $my-related-field){
        echo get('my-related-field',1,$my-related-field);
    }
?>

it returns the correct IDs of related type, but how to display the_permalink, the_title and the_excerpt of each post for example instead of the ID numbers of each post.
I guess it’s more a php question but if someone could give me an advice.
Thks

@knijia, did you ever get this figured out – how to display a duplicated related field?

Also, anyone know the way to retrieve Magic Fields data from the related post?

Thanks,
Paul

Oh, of course, I just got it 5 seconds after I posted a question (that happens a lot…)

<?php $stories = get_field_duplicate('related_stories');
    foreach($stories as $story){ ?>
        <?php echo get_permalink($story); ?>
        <?php echo get_the_title($story); ?>
        <?php echo get_the_post_thumbnail($story, 'my-custom-thumbnail'); ?>
    <?php } ?>

This is working. I still can’t seem to dig into the post and retrieve Magic Fields data. Any ideas out there?

This is a stripped down version of what I have been doing. I hope I haven’t busted the code by stripping it down badly!

<?php // start your duplicated fields loop
	$related_content_fields = getFieldDuplicates('your_related_content_field_name', 1);

	for($i = 1; $i < $related_content_fields+1; $i++):

	// gets the ID for each related content post/page
	$related_content_id = get('your_related_content_field_name',1,$i,true);

?>

	<?php // these work by using the ID we have collected and stored above  ?>

	<?php echo get_the_post_thumbnail($related_content_id, 'your_featured_image'); ?>
	<a href="<?php echo get_permalink($related_content_id); ?>">

		<h2><?php echo get_the_title($related_content_id); ?></h2>

	</a>

	<?php // this works by just accessing the magic field in the duplicate   ?>
	<p><?php echo get('magic_fields_name',1,$i); ?></p>

<?php endfor; ?>

I’m not sure your code above was calling in the field duplicates quite right, as you need to start a count for all the duplicates & use that later. Was that definitely working?

I did find a bit more code that i have, but I won’t include it here as it might get confusing, but it is for when the post or page you are linking to in your related type fields ALSO has a related type filed in it & you want to access that info. For example, I used it in the following situation:

I had created a post Category that I was using to create calendar events. I used the duplicated related type field so that I could create multiple lists of these events in a custom loop. In my sidebar for example on any specific page, i could add 2 or three events relevant to that page.

The code above was used to display both generic WP fields & to create links for that event content.

What I had done for the event posts, however, was use another related type field on each event write panel, which allowed you to link to a ‘venue’ post. Another post category for ‘venues’ was created to allow me to build up an archive of all the different venues.

If I wanted to be able to access the ‘venues’ magic fields, from within the ‘events’ duplicated related type loop, there was additional code required.

Like I say, I’ll leave it out unless it sounds useful to you!?

I’m pretty sure that what I have done is exceed the recommended use for post categories, but it all works. It should probably be done now using custom taxonomies, which are handled much better in the new version of Magic Fields 2, but I haven’t got my head around that yet!

Think I did strip things out badly!The bit you are really after, which is to return the magic fields content from the duplicate is not this:

<?php echo get('magic_fields_name',1,$i); ?>

It should be this:

<?php echo get('magic_fields_name', 1, 1, false, get('related_content',1,$i)); ?>

See if that works

@matstillo – thanks for the code – that works for me for grabbing Magic Fields data from related type fields! Such a useful field type.

FYI, the foreach loop that I had above was working but not when I tried to echo any MF fields. Which is strange because this is how I echo duplicated groups in MF1 and it works:

<?php $events= get_group('Event'); // use the Custom Group name
     foreach($events as $event){ ?>
        <h1><?php echo $event['mf_field_name'][1]; ?></h1>
        <p><?php echo $event['mf_field_name'][1]; ?></p>
        <img src="<?php echo $event['mf_field_name'][1]['o']; ?>">
<?php } ?>

I tried MF2 but I had a major problem with the apparent lack of Page Write Panels. I am accustomed to using Page Write Panels heavily and found that change to be a big problem that I didn’t have time to work around. The Custom Taxonomy tools were very nice, however I had to revert to MF1 for this project.

Thanks again!

-Paul