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Todd Vance
Todd Vance

Reputation: 4711

PHP - trying to concat to LI's with echo and php and missing something

Trying to concat these PHP expressions into LI's but it's getting rendered as the php first and then the LI's... 

function getVolArchives() {
    query_posts('category_name=volunteerspotlights&showposts=5');
    while (have_posts()) : the_post();          
        echo '<li>' . the_title() . '</li><li>' . the_date('F') . '</li>';
    endwhile;
}

Obviously, it doesn't work like I thought it should...can I get some help?

What happens is that the TITLE and DATE show up and THEN two blank LI's... but the answer was already given to me below. I was using the wrong Wordpress functions.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 107

Answers (1)

Marc B
Marc B

Reputation: 360702

You need to use get_the_title() and get_the_date() instead. In Wordpress, the get_*() versions of functions RETURN their data. Otherwise WP defaults to outputting the data instead.

Upvotes: 4

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