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Add up the number of calls to a short code.
How, and is it possible, to total the number of calls of a Short Code?
I made a testimonials model in pure CSS, and I need to know how many times the user invokes it in order to insert some corresponding <input> tags as selectors.
<txp::quote lang="en" text="Blockquote text..." author="Author's name" />Patrick.
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Re: Add up the number of calls to a short code.
Maybe set a counter variable in the shortcode:
<txp:variable name="testimonials_count" add="1" />That should count how many times the shortcode is called on one page.
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Re: Add up the number of calls to a short code.
… Unfortunately, this variable iterates each calls but do not add the sum…
(Tested with TXP 4.8.8)
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Re: Add up the number of calls to a short code.
Pat64 wrote #339765:
… Unfortunately, this variable iterates each calls but do not add the sum…
(Tested with TXP 4.8.8)
Maybe I misunderstood what you want, but with the add="1" attribute it should increment the counter with each call.
I just tried it on the txp 4.8.8. demo page (if you look soon, it might still be there gone). This is the counter shortcode form:
<p>Some test output per shortcode</p>
<txp:variable name="testimonials_count" add="1" />And I added
<txp::counter />to the default and article_listing forms under the heading.
And then in the body_footer form there is:
Counter total: <txp:variable name="testimonials_count" output />After adding some dummy articles, the footer shows the total number of times the shortcode was called, e.g. 6 at present.
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Re: Add up the number of calls to a short code.
Sure, Julian.
Because you call the result of the variable within another form. I suspect it’s not possible into the same form…
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Re: Add up the number of calls to a short code.
Does this help?
<txp:variable name="testimonials_count" add="1" output />I just reimplemented that on the demo site and it then shows a running cumulatively incrementing value with each instance of the shortcode.
EDIT: BTW, this does also work:
<p>Some test output per shortcode</p>
<txp:variable name="testimonials_count" add="1" output />
<!-- counter value: <txp:variable name="testimonials_count" /> -->if you want to use the current value in something else like a class name or something.
EDIT II: Or are you trying to get a {current} of {total} output?
(I played around a bit with [1] notation or process="2" but couldn’t find a working combo. Another way of pre-processing is to output the result of the shortcode to a variable that you then use later on, or in combination with another shortcode, but I couldn’t think of a good way off the top of my head)
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Re: Add up the number of calls to a short code.
Interesting. Thanks, Julian. I will try ;)
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