[wp-hackers] execPHP question

[Andy Charrington-Wilden]

What is in $post if you print_r() it?


On 1 Nov 2011, at 11:02, IC IC wrote:

> I added it but results have not changed. right now, I have this... the
> value does not get outputted! Echo outputs only what's in the " ".
> 
> <?php
> global $post;
> ?>
> 
> <?php the_post();?>
> <hr>
> <?php echo ("postid=" . $post->ID ); ?>
> <hr>
> <?php echo ("the id is=" . the_ID() ) ; ?>
> <hr>
> <?php echo ("gettheid:" . get_the_ID()); ?>
> <hr>
> <?php
> $mypostid = get_the_ID();
> echo ( "mypostid:" . $mypostid);
> ?>
> 
> <hr>
> 
> <?php
> $this_page_id = $wp_query->post->ID;
> echo "after wp_query .... " . $this_page_id ;
> ?>
> 
> the above code outputs this;
> 
> postid=
> ------------------------------
> the id is=
> ------------------------------
> gettheid:
> ------------------------------
> mypostid:
> ------------------------------
> 
> after wp_query ….
> 
> 
> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 3:45 AM, Andy Charrington-Wilden <
> andycharrington at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Have you added the global $post?
>> 
>> You'll need that to access the post object.
>> 
>> :-)
>> 
>> On 1 Nov 2011, at 10:43, IC IC wrote:
>> 
>>> I got the execPHP plug in installed. no problems with it as far as
>>> executing the php code thru the editor... for example, I tried the
>>> following the PHP snippet within the WYSIWYG editor and it works...
>>> 
>>> [?php echo get_post_meta(1717, 'Ref', true); ?]
>>> 
>>> it outputs the value stored within the custom field titled REF. And the
>>> 1717 happens to be the current post id of the post I was editing.
>>> 
>>> but, whenever I tried to access post related data ( usually available in
>>> the wordpress loop ), nothing gets outputted. for example, the following
>>> produces nothing...
>>> 
>>> [?php echo ("postid=" . $post->ID ); ?]
>>> 
>>> Within the WYSIWYG editor, even the the_ID() outputs nothing. I thought,
>> we
>>> were still in the wordpress loop and I could tap into any post related
>> data
>>> at the moment.
>>> 
>>> my goal was to replace the [?php echo get_post_meta(1717, 'Ref',
>>> true); ?]with [?php
>>> echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'Ref', true); ?]
>>> 
>>> What am I doing wrong?
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