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Question

The format for the shortcode that I wish to do is: [product id="id#"] The format for do_shortcode is: do_shortcode('[shortcode');

My question is how can I insert a PHP variable as the id#?

I have a variable $itemid that I would like to use like this:

echo do_shortcode('[product id="$itemid"])

But I cannot for the life of me get it to work. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Could you share your `add_shortcode` function for `product` ? — vard, May 19 '15 at 07:58

score 10 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:15

10

This is an issue of single quotes vs double quotes,

this fix should work:

echo do_shortcode("[product id=\"$itemid\"]")

edited May 23 '17 at 12:15

Community

answered May 19 '15 at 08:05

Uri Goren

score 9 · Answer 2 · answered May 19 '15 at 11:21

9

Try this

$short = '[product id="'.$itemid.'"]';
echo do_shortcode($short);

answered May 19 '15 at 11:21

Dev Danidhariya

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered May 19 '15 at 08:05

Create your custom shortcode using add_shortcode function,

function products($id) {
    print_r($id);
}
add_shortcode( 'product', 'products' );


$itemid = "132";

concatenate the $itemid in do_shortcode function like below

echo do_shortcode('[product id="'.$itemid.'"]');

Output

Array ( [id] => 132 )

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