PHP Template Code for Events List

Ultimately, I have a page template file where I’d like to have a PHP code which lists out events by a “dynamic” tag.

So I’d need the PHP equivalent of:

[events_list tag=”variable”]

…where the variable is provided by a field from the Advanced Custom Fields:

<?php the_field('isbn_number'); ?>

This doesn’t work — and I don’t know enough how to fix or do other way:

<?php echo do_shortcode( '[events_list tag="<?php the_field('isbn_number'); ?>"]' ); ?>

You can’t put a PHP tag inside another PHP tag. Try something like this:

<?php
$this_tag = the_field('isbn_number');
do_shortcode( '[events_list tag="'.$this_tag.'"]');
?>

The first line may need to be changed because you need to get the value without immediately echoing / printing it to the screen.

Thanks — yeah, the isbn is just printing to the page.

But this is a great start — will run it by a friend who speaks PHP better that I do!

Okay, super simple fix:

get_field, instead of the_field — and added echo statement:

<?php
$this_tag = get_field('isbn_number');
echo do_shortcode( '[events_list tag="'.$this_tag.'"]');
?>

Nice, thanks for sharing – it may help someone else.

Thanks for your help!