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1. nickovich
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi,

   I am trying to integrate BinaryMoon's BMShots Plugin (http://www.binarymoon.co.uk/projects/bm-shots-automated-screenshots-website/) into a custom loop.

   In Twentyten, I tried to insert:

   When I declare $url directly, it works....
   

   $url = 'http://www.binarymoon.co.uk/';

   But when I try to assign it dynamically....
   

   <?php
      $url = the_title();
      echo $url;
      $width = 300;
      echo bm_mshot ($url, $width);
   ?>

   ... bm_mshot does not return anything. The post titles are plain URLs.

   So the_title() obviously is the output of a function, but how do I assign it to the $url variable? The end result is supposed to output a screenshot for each post (on the overview and the single post pages).

   Thanks for any pointers!

2. nickovich
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   OK, think I solved the PHP Dummie question:

   Used the_title_attribute instead, and explicitly set "echo" to 0 in the args.
   

   <?php
   $url = the_title_attribute('before=http://&echo=0');
   $width = 300;
   echo bm_mshot ($url, $width); ?>

   That way I only have to put the domain name into the post title, e.g. "youtube.com"

3. alchymyth
   The Sweeper
   Posted 1 year ago #

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_title

   $url = the_title('','',false);

   or

   $url = get_the_title();

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_the_title

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