How to output a shortcode in an input field

• joecannes

• February 12, 2014 at 7:25 am

Hi,

I have a gallery plugin, and when I put the shortcode for my gallery in an WYSIWYG editor, it works fine. But I want the editor to only put in a shortcode (nothing else), so I would like to use a text field so a user can only enter the shortcode.

I did that, but how would I display that on my page now? Simply going:

<?php the_field(‘cf_custom_gallery’); ?>

is not working for me. (where cf_custom_gallery is the name of my text input field)

Anyone know how to display it, or another way to approach this?

Thanks,

JC

• joecannes

• February 12, 2014 at 8:39 am

Hi all, here is an update.

I am using a text input field to add a shortcode. My shortcode looks like this:

[fancygallery id="1" album="6"]

in my php page, I am doing this:

<?php
	$myvalue = get_field( "cf_custom_gallery" ); 

	
    echo do_shortcode("$myvalue");
?>

but it is not outputting. If I manually do this:

<?php
	
    echo do_shortcode('[fancygallery id="1" album="6"]');
?>

it works.

ANy suggestions ?

Thanks,

JC

• Elliot

• February 12, 2014 at 4:35 pm

Hi @joecannes

Your code looks good, but you don’t need the double quotes around the "$myvalue" variable.

Perhaps the value is not being loaded. You can debug the data like so:

$myvalue = get_field( "cf_custom_gallery" ); 

echo '<pre>';
	print_r( $myvalue );
echo '</pre>';
die;

• joecannes

• February 13, 2014 at 6:59 am

Hi Elliott,

Thanks for your suggestion, I did try that, and the value was appearing. But I actually got it working!

The problem was the double quotes in the shortcode.

[fancygallery id="1" album="6"]

If I removed the double quotes, it worked.

[fancygallery id=1 album=6]

But I could not tell the client to always delete the double quotes when inserting a shortcode, so I kept the short code as-is:

[fancygallery id="1" album="6"]

and within advanced custom fields, I changed the format setting for the Text field type to “Convert HTML into tags” instead of “No formatting”

It works now!

Thanks,

JC

• candell

• November 26, 2017 at 1:36 am

Sorry, feel free to remove this post