Looping post_id to gather records from meta_value

[daniel]

Hi there,
Can someone help me to create a loop to read all the meta_value records from a given post_id? The idea is to gather all the meta_value's data related to a post_id from the wp_postmeta table and print them as a list.

I don't have a clue in how to do it.

Any help will appreciated.

Thanks

[leewillis77]

There's a function to retrieve all of a post's meta information :)

get_post_custom($post_id);

Documentation here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_post_custom

Hope that helps

[daniel]

Hi leewills77,

Thanks for your help.

I created the follow shortcode and put it on functions.php, but it doesn't return anything

//Applications list short-code

function jb_applicant() {
global $wpdb;
$custom_fields = get_post_custom(2171); //2171 is the post_id that I'm trying to gather the data from
  $my_custom_field = $custom_fields['my_custom_field'];
  foreach ( $my_custom_field as $key => $value )
    echo $key . " => " . $value . "<br />";
}


add_shortcode('applicant', 'jb_applicant');

Any idea what could be?

Thanks