Have a look at Using The Meta Box Values In Your Template

http://pastebin.com/J44LQBv4

I have a very similar issue to Federico Vezzoli and I did not see a response to his query. I have a number of items stored in WPALCHEMY_MODE_ARRAY and now I find I need to create a search routine that tests against meta data. I will have to convert a couple hundred entries with multiple fields each to WPALCHEMY_MODE_EXTRACT, and am wondering if there is a ready built automation for this that I simply don’t see in the docs.

Thanks again!

I have my metabox setup to use EXTRACT and the box values are post ids – so basically, I am looking for the posts that have a certain id checked.

I tried to use this in my query arguments:
‘meta_query’ => array(
array(
‘key’ => ‘_workshop_speakers’, //checkbox array
‘value’ => $post->ID, //id to query for
‘compare’ => ‘IN’
)
}

but it’s not finding anything.

I have a checkbox set up that when checked should let the user add that post to the front end of the site. When I check the box it saves, but nothing is coming through on the front end. My code is as follows:

http://pastebin.com/eMkaR5K9

Any thoughts?

thanks

The second sentence should read:
I am creating a post automatically, within a plugin, then updating it based on a json response.

I am creating a automatically, within a plugin, the updating it based on a json response.

Essentially, the post is created, the json request sent, then based on the response I need to add meta data to the post. This all works, in the DB I see
_mypostype_meta_fields
_myprefix_fieldone
_myprefix_fieldtwo
etc.

I am using extract mode.

However since the post was never published or update through WP, wpalchemy does not know the _myprefix_ fields exist, there is nothing about them in the array and thus no values in the fields when the post is edited via admin.

Is there another way to do what I want to do, or can’t it be done?

Brilliant class, thank you!

I am having some issues querying meta_keys once I changed the mode to: WPALCHEMY_MODE_EXTRACT. I want to get the three most recent posts in a category, where the start date is before todays date and the end date is after todays date.

Please see my query below, thank you so much for your help

Hoping this may be of help to another developer using this great plugin! 🙂

$today = time();

//set up the query for the three most recent shows
$args = array(
    'post_type' => array('show-listing'),
    'orderby' => 'meta_value_number',
    'meta_key' => '_my_start_timestamp',
    'showposts' => 3,
    'order' => 'ASC',
    'meta_query' => array(
      array(
	'key' => '_my_start_timestamp',
	'value' => time(),
	'compare' => ' 'NUMERIC,'
      ),
      array(
	'key' => '_my_end_timestamp',
	'value' => time(),
	'compare' => '>=',
	'type' => 'NUMERIC,'
      )
    )
);

// The Query
$featured_shows = new WP_Query($args);

// Display the posts
while ( $featured_shows->have_posts() ) : $featured_shows->the_post();
	echo '';
	the_title();
	echo '';
endwhile;