[Resolved] return custom field select option display text

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[kelvinL-2]

Dear Sir/Madam,

I have a custom field in select form, I code with get_post_meta($post_id, 'wpcf-session-title', true) and it return the value stored in database, how can I get return with the option display text?

[Nigel]

Hi there

You need to use a Types API function to get the formatted value of fields rather than the raw value stored in wp_postmeta.

You can use the function types_render_field, as described on this page:

https://toolset.com/documentation/customizing-sites-using-php/functions/

[kelvinL-2]

Dear Nigel,

I visit the article but no idea how to get the option display text, below is my snippet code

	$session_ids = toolset_get_related_posts( $scid, 'admission-session', 'parent', 100, 0, array(), 'post_id', 'child');
	
	$session_options = "";
	if ( $session_ids ){
		foreach ( $session_ids as $session_id) {
			$session_options .= sprintf("<option value='%s'>%s</option>", get_post_meta($session_id, 'wpcf-session-title', true), types_render_field("session-title", array('show_name' => true )));
		}
	}	

I want to build a select option according to the related post, could you please advise how? I attached the custom field structure for your reference.

[kelvinL-2]

Further information, $scid is the child post id

[Minesh]

Hello. Thank you for contacting the Toolset support.

What if you try to use the Types PHP API function types_render_field() in order to display the select box selected option text.

$selected_option_text = types_render_field("session-title", array("id"=>$scid ));
echo $selected_option_text;

[kelvinL-2]

Dear Minesh,

Thanks for your reply, it works but I would like to know more about the attributes that I can apply in array(), could you give me the site where I can know more? I did refer to https://toolset.com/documentation/customizing-sites-using-php/functions/#select but seems no such sample for reference.

[Minesh]

As you can see with the following doc:
- https://toolset.com/documentation/customizing-sites-using-php/functions/#select

All attributes are listed with the above docs you can use any of those.

For exammple:

$selected_option_text = types_render_field("session-title", array("item"=>$scid));
echo $selected_option_text;