Code to display listing attribute that comes from select, checkbox, or radio fields

[Jay3]

Hi,

just trying to reference a specific listing attribute. I created an attribute called “currency” that is a Select field type. The host can then select EUR, or USD, etc…

Let’s say the host selected EUR for his listing.

Now, having the listing object loaded, referencing and displaying $listing->get_currency() does not show the selected value, but instead returns “Array”.

So this field is stored as an array, but how to reference the currently selected value from the array?

Thanks!

[ihor]

Hi,

Yes, selectable attributes store the selected (or an array) of objects (terms), but you can reference their fields via a double underscore, for example:

$listing->get_currency__name()

It should return EUR if it’s a single selection attribute, if it allows multiple selection then it’ll return an array of currency names.

[Jay3]

Hi,

thanks for the answer, but that didn’t work for me. I am able to reference all the custom attributes, except for those which are select, checkbox or radio types.

The exact name (slug) of the custom attribute I am trying to get displayed is “currency_shown”. It is a Select field with single selection only. The listing is indeed in EUR, but I can’t get it

Tried:

echo $listing → get_currency_shown ();

Shows nothing. I assigned it to a variable and tried to display the variable. Same result, nothing shown. Tried as well (literally):

$listing->get_currency_shown__name()

Nothing shown. I assume I have to put the name of something instead of “name”, but what should I put?

I realized that when doing $currency= $listing->get_currency_shown(), the variable $currency does not get the full array. It remains empty (NULL).

[ihor]

Please try testing this via var_dump first, to check if there’s a value at all (because attempting to output an array will show nothing if WP_DEBUG is disabled). Please try this:

var_dump($listing->get_currency_shown());

If it’s a non-empty array, then this should work in any case:

var_dump($listing->get_currency_shown__name());

And you can also try:

echo $listing->display_currency_shown();