If statement to check for post_content

Question

I'm trying to write an if statement to check for post_content and if there is no post_content then to grab a textarea field content. Below is my code and with this, at this point it's only rendering "Array" to the page. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you!

CODE:

<?php
foreach ($partners as $partner) {
  $a_description = get_post_meta($partner->ID, "a_description");
?>

  <div class="partner-content">
    <?php
      if ($partner->post_content && !$a_description) { ?>
        <?php echo $partner->post_content  ?>
      <?php } else { ?>
        <?php echo get_post_meta($partner->ID, $a_description, true); ?>
      <?php } ?>
  </div>
<?php
}
?>

Answer 1

The following line is wrong

<?php echo get_post_meta($partner->ID, $a_description, true); ?>

If you look closely, you are actually passing

get_post_meta($partner->ID, "a_description")

to the $key parameter of get_post_meta as this is the value assigned to $a_description

You should most probably change $a_description to just a_description

EDIT

This line

<?php echo get_post_meta($partner->ID, $a_description, true); ?>

should most probably be

<?php echo get_post_meta($partner->ID, 'a_description', true); ?>