[databellParticipant Post count: 1]

King of confusing but I’m trying to integrate another plugin’s shortcode inside of my client’s pods. The plugin i question is GigPress to display our dates. The idea is to use either their shortcode or widget code to display dates for one artst in the roster. So I have in my Artists’ pod a text field called gigs which related to the GigPress gig ID number. In this case…1. So here’s how it would work hard coded:

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<?php echo do_shortcode('[gigpress_shows scope=upcoming artist=1 limit=3]'); ?>

1	<?php echo do_shortcode('[gigpress_shows scope=upcoming artist=1 limit=3]'); ?>

So that’s OK but what about dynamically changing that ID to display the variable I have assigned in my pod’s field? So I tried this:

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<?php echo do_shortcode('[gigpress_shows scope=upcoming artist=<?php echo $artists_gigs; ?> limit=3]'); ?>

1	<?php echo do_shortcode('[gigpress_shows scope=upcoming artist=<?php echo $artists_gigs; ?> limit=3]'); ?>

That just protrudes blanks. No dates at all.So how would I embed this. Or can I?

[sc0ttkclarkKeymaster Post count: 807]

Oops, you’ve got it a bit wrong but it’s a simple fix.

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<?php echo do_shortcode('[gigpress_shows scope=&quot;upcoming&quot; artist=&quot;' . $artists_gigs . '&quot; limit=&quot;3&quot;]'); ?>

1	<?php echo do_shortcode('[gigpress_shows scope=&quot;upcoming&quot; artist=&quot;' . $artists_gigs . '&quot; limit=&quot;3&quot;]'); ?>

[databellParticipant Post count: 1]

Unfortunately, Scott. That didn’t work. It should have returned a ’1′ (without the apostrophes, of course) and display dates. Instead it said ‘No Shows"…and I’m wondering why that would happen. It is possible, it’s displaying <p>1</p> instead of just 1? I notice a number of times the pod results incorporate <p> tags which quite frankly, I’d like to eliminate.

[sc0ttkclarkKeymaster Post count: 807]

If $artists_gigs is not working, try to do a <?php var_dump( $artists_gigs ); ?> which will show you exactly what that value really contains on output.

If it’s got html in it, just do a <?php $artists_gigs = strip_tags( $artists_gigs ); ?> to take the tags out, and <?php $artists_gigs = (int) $artists_gigs; ?> to force the integer.

[databellParticipant Post count: 1]

Interesting I used the dump command and I got this in my code:

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string(9) &quot;<p>1</p>

1	string(9) &quot;<p>1</p>

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I’m going to try the strip_tags code next. Thanks, Scott. If you have an explanation of what the means, let me know. Really curious.

[databellParticipant Post count: 1]

OK, I think I got it. This seems to work:

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<?php echo do_shortcode('[gigpress_shows scope=&quot;upcoming&quot; artist=&quot;' . $artists_gigs = strip_tags( $artists_gigs ) . '&quot; limit=&quot;3&quot;]'); ?>

1	<?php echo do_shortcode('[gigpress_shows scope=&quot;upcoming&quot; artist=&quot;' . $artists_gigs = strip_tags( $artists_gigs ) . '&quot; limit=&quot;3&quot;]'); ?>

Thanks again, Scott…for all your help and assistance.

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