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How to Filter by Custom Field in Fishpig?

There is a way to get all the checked checkboxes of a custom field in Magento/Wordpress(with Fishpig extension):

$post->getCustomField($customfield)

I'm trying to filter the posts by selected checkboxes, and I'm considering to compare the filters to the posts via for loop, but is there a more efficient way of filtering posts?

Solution

  • You can create a custom collection of posts that are filtered by a custom field:

    $posts = Mage::getResourceModel('wordpress/post_collection')
    ->addIsViewableFilter()
    ->addMetaFieldToFilter('custom_field_name', 'custom field value')
    ->load();

    This will return all published posts that have the value 'custom field value' for the custom field called 'custom_field_name'.

    Once you have a post model, the correct way to retrieve a custom field value is with the following:

    $customFieldValue = $posts->getMetaValue('custom_field_name');