[Plugin: Relevanssi – A Better Search] Bug Report: wrong use of get_post_meta

If you follow the post linked above, you will notice this problem is different. The problem is, that each value of $values = get_post_meta($post->ID, $field, false); can be of mixed type. At least people use arrays as values.

So, what is the best way to serialize these values? I am not quiet sure. What types are actually stored as meta-data. Only strings and arrays?
At least a would like to see something like:

$values = get_post_meta($post->ID, $field, false);

foreach ($values as $value) {
  // Custom field values are simply tacked to the end of the post content
  $post->post_content .= ' ' . (is_array($value)? implode(' ', $value) : $value );
}

Yes – the get_post_meta() call must have the ‘false’ to make sure all meta fields with the same name are returned.

I suppose there’s an assumption that meta fields only have strings. I’ve never even considered anything else myself, so perhaps I’m just biased.

That correction of yours does the trick, I suppose.

Thank you, I see 2.9.1 already implemented it. Thank’s a lot!
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