Creating custom shortcodes for my website

Question

Good day everyone, i am currently working on a php project and i want to be able to create short codes similar to that of wordpress.

Example: [welcome title="Welcome to our website" img="../example.jpg"]
         the welcome message here
         [/welcome]

result should be well formatted in a div element. Thank you.

see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12686465/how-to-use-property-file-in-jsp — Scary Wombat, Dec 18 '14 at 08:27
Have you considered using [Markdown](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax)? It's the same syntax used at StackExchange for all their sites (including [StackOverflow](http://stackoverflow.com/editing-help)). — Buhake Sindi, Dec 18 '14 at 08:32
@BuhakeSindi Sorry as the OP tagged this Q with java and mentions HTML I assumed he was using jsp - my bad. — Scary Wombat, Dec 18 '14 at 08:36
have you looked at https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/blob/3b6c9519a8f83a3fd834bc047899b49547e9d592/wp-includes/shortcodes.php ? — andrew, Dec 21 '14 at 19:13

Lee · Answer 1 · 2014-12-21T19:20:24.923

Try looking at the Just Variables plugin for Wordpress.

You can store variables in the Admin and use them in your content (Posts and Pages) like this:

[justvars code="welcome-title"]

Or direct in your PHP code like this:

<?php just_variable("welcome-title"); ?>

Simple instructions and works really well!

Or, something that may be better suited to your question, is by simply creating a function.

 function welcome_message () {
     $welcome_message = "<div>This is your string</div>";
     return $welcome_message;
 }

And then you can call that function in your code by a simple echo statement:

<?php echo welcome_message(); ?>

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