Thread: Get Custom Field

Get Custom Field

I'm sure that there is a function to easily do this or that I'm on the right track but, did something wrong. I created a custom field with 3 checkboxes. I need to get that custom field and see which checkboxes are selected in order to determine the visibility of some options in sidebar-contact.php. I thought that I would be able to use get_post_meta but, this doesn't work. I assume because the value returned is an array. Assuming that it was an array I tried

$contactMethods = explode(',',get_post_meta($post->ID, 'cp_contact_methods'));
foreach ( $contactMethods as $name)
...

This didn't work for me either. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,