error while loading wordpress post using ID

Question

I am trying to retrieve the content of a wordpress post using its ID:

$loadpost = url_to_postid($actual_link); 
$newpost = get_post($loadpost);
echo '<article id="post-'.$newpost["ID"].'"><h1>'.$newpost["post_title"].'</h1>'.$newpost["post_content"];

$loadpost returns a valid ID but somehow this expression does not work. IE returns:

Fatal error: Cannot use object of type stdClass as array in /hermes/waloraweb046/b428/moo.snippetspacecom/splittemplate/wp-content/themes/split/index.php on line 24

What does this mean?

Thanks for your help guys.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6171699/cannot-use-object-of-type-stdclass-as-array-using-wordpress — anuragbh, Sep 10 '12 at 01:17

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 10 '12 at 01:18

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Because get_post(); by default outputs as an OBJECT

What you want to return is

echo '<article id="post-'.$newpost->ID.'"><h1>'.$newpost->post_title.'</h1>'.$newpost->post_content;

answered Sep 10 '12 at 01:18

csilk

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same answer as xlordt but more complete. Thanks, it works great :). – cmplieger Sep 10 '12 at 01:23

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 10 '12 at 01:16

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change all [''] to -> example

$newpost->ID;
$newpost->post_title

wp passes most parameters as objects and not as arrays.

answered Sep 10 '12 at 01:16

xlordt

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Musa · Answer 3 · 2012-09-10T01:23:19.593

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By default get_post returns an object, pass ARRAY_A as a second parameter for it to return an associative array.

$loadpost = url_to_postid($actual_link); 
$newpost = get_post($loadpost, ARRAY_A);
echo '<article id="post-'.$newpost["ID"].'"><h1>'.$newpost["post_title"].'</h1>'.$newpost["post_content"];

edited Sep 10 '12 at 01:23

answered Sep 10 '12 at 01:17

Musa

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@SnippetSpace did you call `get_post` with `ARRAY_A` as a second parameter or just copied my code?, if the latter there was a mistake in my code if is corrected now. – Musa Sep 10 '12 at 01:24

error while loading wordpress post using ID

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