Passing variable to post__in not working?

  • Hey Guys,
    I’m using a meta box to store a bunch of page ID. When I try to pass the page ID’s to the post__in parameter of WP_Query it only seems to take the first ID, not all of them.

    So, say the “relatedpages” meta box contains: 55, 33, 22

    $relatedpages = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'relatedpages', true);

$args = array(
	'post_type' 		=> 'page',
	'posts_per_page' 	=> -1,
	'order'			=> 'ASC',
	'orderby' 		=> 'menu_order',
	'post__in' 		=> array($relatedpages)
	);

$myposts = get_posts($args);
echo $myposts;

    If you do that, you’ll only get one post. Where as if you replace ‘array($relatedpages)’ with ‘array(55, 33, 22)’ you’ll get all 3 posts.

    Is it something I’m doing wrong with my PHP syntax?

    Thanks,
    Drew

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  • Thread Starter Drew Baker

    (@dbaker)

    So I figured out that the problem is that $relatedpages is a string, and it needs to be a comma separated integers.

    Any ideas on how to over come this?

    Thanks!

    try and use the php function explode()
    https://php.net/manual/en/function.explode.php

    from:
    $relatedpages = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'relatedpages', true);
    to:

    $relatedpages = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'relatedpages', true);
$relatedpages = explode(',', $relatedpages);

    and, from:
    'post__in' => array($relatedpages)
    to:
    'post__in' => $relatedpages

    (untested)

    Thread Starter Drew Baker

    (@dbaker)

    Hey alchymyth,
    Thanks for the help, but in the end I think the problem was the ‘post__in’ parameter can’t be used in get_posts like I wanted. Strange enough, the old ‘include’ does. So this worked!

    $args = array(
	'post_type' 			=> 'page',
	'posts_per_page' 		=> -1,
	'order'				=> 'ASC',
	'orderby' 			=> 'menu_order',
	'include' 			=> $relatedpages
	);

$myposts = get_posts($args);

    Thanks anyway!

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