ash_learner

Hi,

Thanks for your attempt to help, but thats the page I used to get the code in the first place.

That page DOES NOT show how to have all 3 dropdowns be matched.

What I am trying to do is to have it so that the user selects from each of the 3 dropdowns and the only posts that are returned are posts that match

3 selections. Right now it returns posts that match the last of the three dropdowns only.

Maybe the answer is on that page, but if so it requires far more skill with php than i have to identify it. Every example on that page deals with one drop down only. NOT multiple dropdowns.

Again, thank you, your help is appreciated but I am afraid your answer doesn’t help me and feels more like you just glanced at my question, quickly grabbed the relevant page from the codex and said job done. I say this because if you read my question and the code I showed you would not have given me the answer you did.

I see, but all the examples of shortcodes I have seen have them returning html created within the shortcode function?

It looks as if its catching the greater than and less than signs at the start of the php strip and converting it into html special characters as shown below (taken from live source of the live example):

<input name="meta_web_form_id" value="<?php echo $aff_AW_Form_Id; ?>" type="hidden">

The <?php start tag is rendering as & l t ; ?php as with the end tag (without the spaces)

Hi esmi,

Yes I did remember, thanks. The shortcode works in that it does return the form, but the forms values are populated by php which is not getting processed for some reason. I have marked the section on pastie where the problem is occurring: https://pastie.org/509451

I am sure its a matter of poor php on my part, something i need to do or not do that is interfering.

Thanks