Php - rotation of shortcodes

PHP
1

I have what I think is a simple question but for some reason using any type of ararys won’t work, at least as I tried.

I have two or three short codes I want to rotate using php but I’m not sure how to get only one to show at a time and what options I have for rotating.

Here are the lines of code

<?php echo do_shortcode(‘[content 1]’); ?>
<?php echo do_shortcode(‘[content 2]’); ?>

I just want one of them at a time to show up on the page. Do you know how I can do that?

Thank you for your help,

Jeff

2

Never worked with shortcode before but for standard arrays you could do something like this. You probably could adapt to shortcode.

<?php
$do_shortcode = array(
"content1" => "Hello there.",
"content2" => "Hi there.",
"content3" => "Ho there."
);
$cnt = count($do_shortcode);
$n = mt_rand(1,$cnt);
$key = "content$n";
?>

<html>
<body>
<?php echo "{$do_shortcode[$key]}"; ?>
</body>
</html>
3

Drummin,

Thanks for the code. That is what I have used in the past but with shortcodes I cannot get it to work. The php code I showed in the original post works great, but is will show both at the same time. I need only one to show and for them to be rotated.

I have been going nuts with this, it cannot be that difficult, I must be overlooking something.

Thanks again for the help, does anyone have any other suggestions?

4

Can’t you generate the number and add it to the key? Assuming they are numbered “content 1”, “content 2” etc.

<?php
$cnt = 2; //Number of shortcodes
$n = mt_rand(1,$cnt);
?>

<html>
<body>
<?php echo do_shortcode("[content $n]"); ?>
</body>
</html
5

Drummin,

Can you show me how you would use

<?php echo do_shortcode('[shortcode content 1]'); ?>
<?php echo do_shortcode('[shortcode content 2]'); ?>

With your second suggestion. I think you are thinking on the lines of what I thought but I cannot get the two shortcodes to work in the code.

Could you please write it out the way it would be on the page.

Thank You,

Jeff

6

Can you replace the two lines you have with this?

<?php
$cnt = 2; //Number of shortcodes
$n = mt_rand(1,$cnt);
echo do_shortcode("[content $n]");
?>
7

The problem is the shortcode works like this [this shortcode], it will be converted to whatever the shortcode represents.

example: [shortcode 1] will display a form
[shortcode 2] will display a image
[shortcode 3] will display link

whatever is in the must be a shortcode with a function already written. So if I use my example line from the other post: <?php echo do_shortcode(‘[shortcode content 1]’); ?> [shortcode content 1] would display. The have to also show on the page so the script knows it’s a shortcode.

I sure hope all that makes sense.

Thanks,

Jeff

8

It doesn’t make sense, but that’s okay.

if $n is 1, wouldn’t the line echo
do_shortcode(“[content 1]”);

Maybe it’s the full quotes “[content 1]”? I don’t know.

You could also wrap these lines in IF statements like

<?php
$cnt = 2; //Number of shortcodes
$n = mt_rand(1,$cnt);
	  
if(isset($n) && $n==1){
	echo do_shortcode('[content 1]');
}elseif(isset($n) && $n==2){
	echo do_shortcode('[content 2]'); 
}else{
	echo do_shortcode('[content 1]');
}
?>
9

Drummin,

That was it, the quotes. It worked, thank you for the help! This was driving me nuts.

Thanks again,
Jeff