Title: Get user input using plugin
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Get user input using plugin

 *  [DanInMA](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daninma/)
 * (@daninma)
 * [16 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get-user-input-using-plugin/)
 * This might be kind of long.
 * I have built a plugin that queries another sites api. I am using a shortcode 
   to add my plugin to its own page, if that matters.
 * My problem is I want visitors to my blog to be able to input their own zip code
   to make the query with.
 * I’ve simplified my function the shortcode calls to include a form with a single
   input and the action set to the current url,
    ` function shortcode_view(){ $display
   = '<form action= "'.$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'].'"><input type="text" name="zip" 
   value="012345" size="20"> <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Update Options"/
   ></form>'; return $display; }  which looks like ‘wordpress/?page_id=3’ but obviously
   when I post to this form it gets processed by whatever catches ‘wordpress/’ which
   does nothing. So what am I missing?

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 * Last activity: [16 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get-user-input-using-plugin/)
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