Title: Using php with your plugin Last modified: July 1, 2020 --- # Using php with your plugin * Resolved [Chuckie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ajtruckle/) * (@ajtruckle) * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-php-with-your-plugin/) * Hi! * I have read the documentation and know that I can use the following shortcode syntax to obtain the download count for a given item: * `[sdm_show_download_info id="123" download_info="download_count"]` * I have three downloads so I can have three shortcode references. No problem with that. * My issue is that I need to come up with a new shortcode code that basically does this: * ``` WorkOutDownloadAsPercentage(download id) total_msa = get-download-total-for-msa total_pts = get-download-total-for-pts total_vrr = get-download-total-for-vrr total = total_msa + total_pts + total_vrr; percent_msa = (100 / total) * total_msa percent_pts = (100 / total) * total_pts percent_vrr = (100 / total) * total_vrr if(download id is msa) return percent_msa else if(download id is pts) return percent_pts else if(download id is vrr) return percent_vrr return 0 ``` * Some thing like the above in to a shortcode, so I can call: * `[sdm_get_download_as_percent id=xxx]` * I appreciate this can’t be part of your plugin and just custom snippet at my end. * Thanks for help. Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) * Plugin Contributor [mbrsolution](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mbrsolution/) * (@mbrsolution) * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-php-with-your-plugin/#post-13072783) * Hi, I have submitted a message to the developers to investigate further your request. * Thank you * Thread Starter [Chuckie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ajtruckle/) * (@ajtruckle) * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-php-with-your-plugin/#post-13072820) * Thank you. * Plugin Author [mra13](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mra13/) * (@mra13) * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-php-with-your-plugin/#post-13075202) * You will need to create a custom shortcode for this in a custom little plugin( or addon). It will probably turn out to be a 2-3 hour custom coding job. So I am not sure how I can provide help for this for free. * Thread Starter [Chuckie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ajtruckle/) * (@ajtruckle) * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-php-with-your-plugin/#post-13075379) * Hi * All I want to know is how I can call one of your short codes (above) and store it’s value to a variable. Is it by using do_shortcode(…)? * Thread Starter [Chuckie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ajtruckle/) * (@ajtruckle) * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-php-with-your-plugin/#post-13076637) * Worked it out 😀 * Thread Starter [Chuckie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ajtruckle/) * (@ajtruckle) * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-php-with-your-plugin/#post-13078520) * My code: * ``` function xxx_download_percentage($attr) { $id_aaa = aaa; $id_bbb = bbb; $id_ccc = ccc; $args = shortcode_atts( array( 'download_id' => 'aaa' ), $attr ); $aaa_DownloadCount = do_shortcode('[sdm_show_download_info id="aaa" download_info="download_count"]'); $bbb_DownloadCount = do_shortcode('[sdm_show_download_info id="bbb" download_info="download_count"]'); $ccc_DownloadCount = do_shortcode('[sdm_show_download_info id="ccc" download_info="download_count"]'); $total_DownloadCount = $aaa_DownloadCount + $bbb_DownloadCount + $ccc_DownloadCount; if($args['download_id'] == $id_aaa) { $aaa_Percent = (100 / $total_DownloadCount) * $aaa_DownloadCount; return round($aaa_Percent, 0, PHP_ROUND_HALF_UP); } elseif($args['download_id'] == $id_bbb) { $bbb_Percent = (100 / $total_DownloadCount) * $bbb_DownloadCount; return round($bbb_Percent, 0, PHP_ROUND_HALF_UP); } elseif($args['download_id'] == $id_ccc) { $ccc_Percent = (100 / $total_DownloadCount) * $ccc_DownloadCount; return round($ccc_Percent, 0, PHP_ROUND_HALF_UP); } return 0; } add_shortcode( 'zz_download_percent', 'xxx_download_percentage' ); ``` * Where `aaa`, `bbb` and `ccc` are specific **Download ID** values. * Then you can use it: * `[zz_download_percent download_id="aaa"]` - This reply was modified 5 years, 9 months ago by [Chuckie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ajtruckle/). * Plugin Contributor [mbrsolution](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mbrsolution/) * (@mbrsolution) * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-php-with-your-plugin/#post-13080602) * Hi, thank you for sharing your code. I am sure your code will help other trying to achieve the same as you. * Kind regards Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) The topic ‘Using php with your plugin’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/simple-download-monitor/assets/icon-128x128.png?rev=973803) * [Simple Download Monitor](https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-download-monitor/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-download-monitor/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/simple-download-monitor/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/simple-download-monitor/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/simple-download-monitor/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/simple-download-monitor/reviews/) ## Tags * [custom shortcode](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/custom-shortcode/) * 7 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [mbrsolution](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mbrsolution/) * Last activity: [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-php-with-your-plugin/#post-13080602) * Status: resolved