How to pass variables into shortcode

  • Resolved scamrwordpressadmin

    (@scamrwordpressadmin)


    8 years, 5 months ago

    Hi Michael. This is a great plug-in! Thanks for all you do for all of us that use it.

    I have the following shortcode, which works great!

    [cfdb-table form="San Tan - Moonlight Trail (Short) - 2 Nov 2016" class="hikersgoingclass" headers="your-name-STMoonSTwoNovSixteen=Hiker Name,your-email=Email,your-phone=Phone,can-drive=Can Drive?,Num-hikers=Number of Hikers I Can Take" show="your-name-STMoonSTwoNovSixteen,your-email,your-phone,can-drive,Num-hikers" limit="50" orderby="Submitted desc"][/cfdb-table]

    There are two pieces of information that I would like to pass in as variables, so that I could use a standard shortcode on every page.

    I’d like the form= to be the first variable, and your-name to be the second . ie: form = $variable1, and your-name = $variable 2.

    Is this possible, and if so – how would I go about it? I just keep ending up with form literally equaling “$variable1”, as if that was a string like “hello world”.

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  • Plugin Author Michael Simpson

    (@msimpson)

    I don’t know how you want to pass it. You can use $_GET(value) to get from a URL variable for example. https://cfdbplugin.com/?page_id=116

    Thread Starter scamrwordpressadmin

    (@scamrwordpressadmin)

    Hi Michael. Sorry that I wasn’t more clear.

    You are correct, I can use the $_GET for example, to fill the variable.

    So, for example, my variable is $cfdbformname. The value is “San Tan – Moonlight Trail (Short) – 2 Nov 2016”

    I call the shortcode like this:
    [cfdb-table form=$cfdbformname class="hikersgoingclass" …etc

    But when the shortcode runs, it sees the form variable as $cfdbformname and not the actual value of the variable, like this:

    [cfdb-table form=$cfdbformname class="hikersgoingclass" …etc instead of

    [cfdb-table form="San Tan - Moonlight Trail (Short) - 2 Nov 2016" class="hikersgoingclass"

    Plugin Author Michael Simpson

    (@msimpson)

    Where is $cfdbformname defined?

    Thread Starter scamrwordpressadmin

    (@scamrwordpressadmin)

    I have the Advanced Custom Fields plug in, and have defined my fields there. The field shows up on the Event form when I create an event, and I can fill in the form name there. Then, in single-event.php, I do:

    <?php $cfdbformname=get_field("sign_up_custom_form_name");?>'

then I have tried a couple of things.  1) just calling it outright:
'
[cfdb-table form=$cfdbformname class="hikersgoingclass" ..etc

    and 2) creating a variable with the shortcode, and calling that:
    <?php $cfdbtableshortcode = '[cfdb-table form=$cfdbformname class="hikersgoingclass" .. etc
    <?php echo do_shortcode($cfdbtableshortcode);?>

    I must admit I’m not sure where/when to use single vs double quotes, so I might have those wrong.

    Plugin Author Michael Simpson

    (@msimpson)

    Try it like this:

    $cfdbformname = get_field("sign_up_custom_form_name");
$sc = sprintf('[cfdb-table form="%s" class="hikersgoingclass"]', $cfdbformname);
echo do_shortcode($sc);

    Thread Starter scamrwordpressadmin

    (@scamrwordpressadmin)

    That worked like a charm! Thanks so much!

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