Variables in shortcodes

waynmeyer
(@waynmeyer)

9 years, 10 months ago

Hi Gabriel

i have a noob question. im using Advanced custom fields and custom post types as well as custom template types. However im stuck where i need to echo an advanced custom field in the shortcode of mycred. example:

<?php $variable = the_field(‘youtube_video_id’);
echo do_shortcode(‘[mycred_video id=”‘.$variable.'” width=”800″ height=”” amount=”5″ logic=”interval” interval=”15″]’); ?>

say in the above im using the youtube video mycred shortcode. to show the view i want to echo an advanced custom field for the video id, this was i can have users make posts using their videos custom id without them having to learn mycred shortcodes, they simply add just the video id which i can echo in your shortcode.

Is there anyway i can use mycred with php and not have to use the echo do_shortcode method?

Any assistance will be greatly appreciated

https://wordpress.org/plugins/mycred/

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Plugin Author

(@designbymerovingi)

Hi.

You can use the mycred_render_shortcode_video function which is the function that renders the shortcode and the video javascript files which contains the AJAX script that updates a users balance.

Here is a quick example:

// Show the video via myCRED if a YouTube Video is set
$video_id = the_field( 'youtube_video_id' );
if ( $video_id != '' && function_exists( 'mycred_render_shortcode_video' ) ) {
	echo mycred_render_shortcode_video( array(
		'id'       => $video_id,
		'width'    => 560,
		'height'   => 315
	) );
}

The shortcode attributes are passed along as an array. The above example is equalant to:

$video_id = the_field( 'youtube_video_id' );
if ( $video_id != '' ) {
	echo do_shortcode( '[mycred_video id="' . $video_id . '" width="560" height="315"]' );
}

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