How to Pull Data from Individual Tablepress Table Cells

In researching this further, I ran across your Tablepress Extension for accessing individual table cells. I will play with that a bit, and update this thread with the results.

Extension can be found here: https://tablepress.org/extensions/table-cell-shortcode/

Hi.
The TablePress extension pulls the data out just great!

I could use some pointers however. I would like to be able to send in the ID as a variable, so that I can reuse the shortcode on different event pages.

ie: [table-cell id=xx cell=H2 /], where the xx would be sent in depending upon the table I need to reference.

Thanks in advance for the pointers. I’ve been slogging through support forums all day, and just keep finding things that don’t seem to work.

Regards,

Kathy

Hi Tobias,

I was wondering about that – so thanks for the push that direction. I wrote a function which will now pull a variable directly from a table cell, using your TablePress Extension shortcode. Works like a charm!

For others who might run into this, here is what I did. I suspect there are more elegant solutions out there, but this works for me.

Create a function that first finds the tablepress ID for the table I want to reference.
Then, create a string that represents the shortcode to be run, adding in the tablepress ID in the midst, and return that value.

Lastly, create a variable that is assigned this new shortcode string. Use the variable where the shortcode would be used.

function nameofthishike_get_var()
{
global $my_nameofthishike_var;
$my_tablecellid_var=tablepressid_get_var();
$my_hike_shortcode_var=sprintf(“[table-cell id=”.$my_tablecellid_var.” cell=H2/]”);
$my_nameofthishike_var=sprintf($my_hike_shortcode_var);
return $my_nameofthishike_var;
}

<?php $nameofthishike=nameofthishike_get_var();?>