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WordCent
WordCent

Reputation: 727

Return a string that has a variable inside a WordPress Shortcode

If I have this →

<input type="hidden" name="meta_adtracking" value="custom form" />

then I can easily convert this into a returnable string →

$output =  '<input type="hidden" name="meta_adtracking" value="custom form" />'

Of course the output will later be returned:

return $output;

But this becomes challenging for me when It has a jQuery or a Wordpress Localized Function.

Wordpress Localized Function

<input type="submit" class="one" name="aweber_submit" value="<?php _e("Subscribe", 'text-domain');?>" />

How to convert the above into a returnable string? [P.S. → The php tags are actually not required because the shortcode function is in a file that is .php extension], but then If I just remove a PHP tag would that be ok?

$output = '<input type="submit" class="one" name="aweber_submit" value="_e("Subscribe", 'text-domain');" />'

Is this Ok?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 696

Answers (2)

delboy1978uk
delboy1978uk

Reputation: 12374

Almost. Try this!

You need to break out of the string and concatenate whatever the function returns.

$output = '<input type="submit" class="one" name="aweber_submit" value="'._e("Subscribe", 'text-domain').'" />';

Upvotes: 6

kinggs
kinggs

Reputation: 1168

You will need to change the following to prevent the PHP function being stored as part of the string or in this case, causing a parse error because of the inverted commas.

$output = '<input type="submit" class="one" name="aweber_submit" value="_e("Subscribe", 'text-domain');" />'

to

$output = '<input type="submit" class="one" name="aweber_submit" value="'._e("Subscribe", 'text-domain').'" />';

Also note that the _e function will need to return a value for expected behavior.

Upvotes: 1

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