How to get meta box values - WP tuts tutorial

Question

I did these tree tutorials to create custom metaboxes.

wp.tutsplus.com/tutorials/reusable-custom-meta-boxes-part-1-intro-and-basic-fields/
wp.tutsplus.com/tutorials/reusable-custom-meta-boxes-part-2-advanced-fields/
wp.tutsplus.com/tutorials/reusable-custom-meta-boxes-part-3-extra-fields/

but i don't know how to call values from individual fields. I used this php script

$meta = get_post_meta($post->ID, $field['id'], true);
echo $meta;

but id doesn't work. Does someone know what I do wrong.

replace $field['id'] with the actual id you gave the field
here is my functions.php 4shared.com/file/8jmKqGFY/functions.html? and here is my index.php 4shared.com/file/iAWwZim7/index.html?
Are you sure you have the correct meta key? Maybe try print_r( get_post_custom_keys($post_id) ); and you will see all the meta keys associated with that post. (Also for code sharing, I would suggest something like Pastie)

Cristian · Answer 1 · 2012-03-07 09:07:34Z

After reviewing your code there are a couple of things you need to change depending on where the meta content is being held.

If you try

$meta = get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), 'custom_text', TRUE );
echo 'The meta content is: ' . $meta;`

That should give you the appropriate meta.

You are calling this function on the page content, so unless the meta content is being held there nothing will be output.

Hope that helps!

no it doesn't work but I figured it out :) Solution is this $meta = get_post_meta($post->ID, $field['custom_text'], true); echo $meta[custom_text][0]; Thx for your help
Don't for to accept the answer so in the future people know how to get to the solution you did. Also it's polite.

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