[Plugin: Flickr Gallery] How to pass variables & do_shortcode

Using the plugin and it works great in pages and posts 🙂

I’m putting together a few post templates and am having a few issues passing variables to the plugin. I want to pass a a list of tags to it, but can’t seem to work out how to do it.

Can I reference the plugin using a php function (i can’t find anything) or is it just the shortcode available?

This is what I’m currently trying to do – if anyone has better suggestions I’m open to them…..

This works:

<?php
 echo do_shortcode('[flickr-gallery mode=tag tags=MYTAGS tag_mode=all]');
?>

Taking this a step further I want to pass a list of tags to the shortcode, but it doesn’t work:

<?php
$myTags="MYTAGS";
echo do_shortcode('[flickr-gallery mode=tag tags=$myTags tag_mode=all]');
?>

All help and suggestions appreciated 🙂

thanks

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/flickr-gallery/