Number keeps appearing below plugin shortcode output

a: shortcode functions should return the value, not echo it; https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Shortcode_API

b: what is the full code?

Hi Thanks for your reply

function pedigree() {

`global $wpdb;

$result = $wpdb->get_row ( ‘SELECT * FROM wp_lb_person WHERE id = “‘.$id.'”‘);

echo $result->first_name. ” ” . $result->family_name. “<br />”;

echo $result->date_of_birth.”<br />”;
echo $result->date_of_death.”<br />”;

}

add_shortcode(‘add-pedigree’, ‘pedigree’); `

David Lyons
02/02/2001
02/02/2001
1 <- This appears My Query is how do I stop it from appearing

Thanks again for your reply

is there any other code in the plugin?

how is the shortcode used in a post?

does the number appear whereever you use the shortcode?

can you post a live link to the problem?

Hi,

I will forward the details on shortly.
I have been playing around myself and have stuffed it up somehow. I can no longer get anything working. As soon as I do i will post the answers to your questions here.

Again Thanks for your help

Warwick

Wouldn’t you know it.

As soon as I posted the previous post I got it to work!!!

Ok here is how I have it.

The plugin creates a menu page with a form to allow person info to be inserted into the database. It also creates a new page with the shortcode [pedigree id = “‘ . $id . ‘”] automatically inserted with the person id :

<?php
$strSql = 'select last_insert_id() as lastId';
  $result = mysql_query($strSql);
  while($row = @mysql_fetch_assoc($result)){
          $id = $row['lastId'];
  }

$new_post = array(
'post_title' => $id. " " . $first_name . " " . $family_name,
'post_content' => '[pedigree id = "' . $id . '"]',
'post_status' => 'publish',
'post_author' => $user_ID,
'post_type' => 'page',
'post_category' => array(0)
);
$post_id = wp_insert_post($new_post, $wp_error );
echo $post_id
?>

I have a shortcode.php file which I store the shortcodes functions. This file is included into install.php file which has the wordpress header comments for the plugin.

shortcode.php

<?php
function pedigree($atts) {
	extract(shortcode_atts( array(
		'id' => ' ',
	), $atts ) );

	return include ('addin-pedigree.php');

}

add_shortcode('pedigree', 'pedigree');

?>

I then use a file called addin-pedigree.php to hold the code:

addin-pedigree.php

<?php

global $wpdb;

$result = $wpdb->get_row ( 'SELECT * FROM wp_lb_person WHERE id = "'.$id.'"'); 

echo $result->first_name. " " . $result->family_name. "<br />";

echo $result->date_of_birth. "<br />";
 echo $result->date_of_death. "<br />";
?>

This appears to run ok and it displays the correct information, but the number one appears below it.

John Barton
01/01/2001
01/01/2001
1 <- This is the problem

Live Page: https://lyons-barton.com/17-john-barton/

The shortcode that is used is [pedigree id = “17”] (Derived from [pedigree id = “‘ . $id . ‘”])

I hope this answers your question (and is not to confusing)

Thanks

Warwick