Title: problem with processing short codes
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# problem with processing short codes

 *  Resolved [dontcair](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dontcair/)
 * (@dontcair)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-processing-short-codes/)
 * I am adding code to a plugin that adds a widget and an additional shortcode handler.
   the shortcode is being recognized and processed correctly however some of the
   variables are blank. Here is the code
 *     ```
       function WPOS_Shortcodes( $attr ) {
       		shortcode_atts( array(
       				'id' => '',
       				'type' => '',
       				'data' => '',
       				'amount' => '1',
       				'rows' => '1',
       				'cols' => '1',
       				'dsize' => '300',
       				'match-all' => '0',
       				'hide-price' => '0'
       		), $attr );
       		return static::display($attr);
       	}
   
       	function display( $args ) {
       		$widgetContent = '';
       		extract( $args );
       		$dblink = tep_db_connect();
       	    $query = "select p.products_id, pd.products_name, p.products_image, pd.products_url, p.products_price from " . TABLE_PRODUCTS . " p, " . TABLE_PRODUCTS_DESCRIPTION . " pd where p.products_status = '1'";
       		if (!empty($id))
       		{
       		    $query .= " and p.products_id = '" . $id . "' and pd.products_id = p.products_id";
       			$product_query = tep_db_query($query);
       			$product = tep_db_fetch_array($product_query);
       			$widgetContent = '<a href="' . HTTP_SERVER . '/' . STORE_SLUG . '/?slug=' . FILENAME_PRODUCT_INFO . '&products_id=' . $product['products_id'] . '"><img src="' . DIR_WS_IMAGES . $product['products_image'] . '" width="' . $dsize . '" height="' . $dsize . '"><br />' . $product['products_name'] . '</a><br />' . $product['products_price'];
       		}
       		else
       		{
   
       		}
       		return $widgetContent;
       	}
       ```
   
 * both of the functions are inside of a class if that makes a difference.
    The 
   problem is that dsize is blank so the image is not resized. I was under the impression
   that the shortcode_atts() call was supposed to set default values when the value
   isn’t passed to the shortcode. I am only passing the id value to the short code.
   so if the defaults are set why aren’t they propagating to the extracted variables?

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 *  Thread Starter [dontcair](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dontcair/)
 * (@dontcair)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-processing-short-codes/#post-3014441)
 * DUH!! haha sorry I figured it out. I didn’t reassign $attr with the result of
   shortcode_atts()

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-processing-short-codes/#post-3014441)
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