php inserting code into shortcode help

  • posthawk

    (@posthawk)


    13 years, 2 months ago

    What i’m trying to make is a widget that will display a twitter widget through shortcode, but it will automatically insert the author of the post’s twitter id as the username. The id is gotten through the users profile.

    <?php
//this retrieves the authors twitter username
$tweetid = get_the_author_meta( 'twitter' );
//this should enter that username unto the required field of the shortcode
$tweetcode = '[rotatingtweets screen_name="$tweetid"]';
//this tells the widget not to display if there is no twitter data filled out
$tweetcheck = get_the_author_meta( 'twitter' );

if ($tweetcheck)  { ?

//this should run the shortcode with the propper field filled out

<?php
 echo do_shortcode($tweetcode);
?>

<?php } ?>

    [Please use the code buttons OR backticks (not blockquote) for posting code – as is, it’s likely your code has been corrupted here. http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Posting_Code ]
    The problem i am having is that no matter what i do, the widget wont stop thinking that the screen_name is $tweetid and i keep getting a message to check the user name.

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  • Michael

    (@alchymyth)

    13 years, 2 months ago

    try to change the one line to:

    $tweetcode = '[rotatingtweets screen_name="'.$tweetid.'"]';

    there might also be an issue with wrongly placed/opened/not closed php tags (?);
    to clarify, please repost the code.

    Martin Tod

    (@mpntod)

    13 years, 2 months ago

    Try this instead:

    //this retrieves the author's twitter username
$tweetid = get_the_author_meta( 'twitter' );
// Check that rotating tweets is installed and that there is a twitter id
if (!empty($tweetid) && function_exists('rotatingtweets_display') )  {
    rotatingtweets_display( array (
        'screen_name' => $tweetid
    ));
}

    Martin Tod

    (@mpntod)

    13 years, 2 months ago

    Good point re: inverted commas. I guess changing to:

    $tweetcode = "[rotatingtweets screen_name='$tweetid']";

    should work too!

    Martin Tod

    (@mpntod)

    13 years, 2 months ago

    Although I’ve just done some checking – and you do need to check the function is there.

    So something like:

    // this retrieves the author's twitter username
$tweetid = get_the_author_meta( 'twitter' );
//this should enter that username unto the required field of the shortcode
$tweetcode = "[rotatingtweets screen_name='$tweetid']";
// Check that rotating tweets is installed and that there is a twitter id
if (!empty($tweetid) && function_exists('rotatingtweets_display_shortcode') )  {
    echo do_shortcode($tweetcode);
}

    should also work

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