Create php function to use inside while loop

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1. you could use globals. For example, assuming you have a global array, here is something that does that (obviously you need to add more robustness such a error checking. plus how you would use this on wordpress would depend on what you are doing)

   $post= array( 0=>array('title'=>'the title', 'content'=>'this is the content'),
                 1=>array('title'=>'the second title','content'=>'we all love seconds'),
               );
   $array_index=0;
   the_title();
   the_post();
   next_post();
   the_title();
   the_post();
   
   function the_title() {
      global $post, $array_index;
      echo $posts[$array_index]['title'];
   }
   function the_post() {
      global $post, $array_index;
      echo $posts[$array_index]['title'];
   }
   function next_post() {
      global $post, $array_index;
      $array_index++;
   }
   

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2. So from looking at the the_title() and related functions, it looks like you should be able to do as follows (untested, but should work):

   function whatever_you_want( $post_id = 0 ) {
     $post = get_post($id);
     // Display something with data from $post
   }
   

   If you don’t specify any post_id to the function, get_post() will retrieve the current post in the loop for you to use in your function.

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