Call function inside quotations marks

[danielnn]

I am writing out likes, tweets and so on in Word Press.
I am struggling to make my code work.

 

Below is the url that my PHP is writing out likes from. (If NBA.com has 20 K likes it will write "20k")

 

<? $obj=new shareCount("http://www.nba.com"); ?>

 

My problem is that the url has to different for each post. 
<?php the_permalink(); ?> Vil write out the URL

My problem is my formatting.

 

<? $obj=new shareCount("<?php the_permalink(); ?>"); ?> of course doesn't work

<? $obj=new shareCount(<?php the_permalink(); ?>); ?> of course doesn't work

How du I call a function inside a function within the quotations marks?

 

 

 

 

[moylin]

Sorry, half asleep on this.

 

Try

<?php

$obj=new shareCount( get_permalink() );

?>

or

<?php

$yourtempvar = get_permalink();

$obj=new shareCount($yourtempvar);

?>

 

edit: switched to get instead of the_permalink, as the_permalink is designed to output the permalink address to the browser.

[danielnn]

It is just writing out the url on the page:
http://creeeative.com/

[Irate]

<?php $obj = new ShareCount( the_permalink() ); ?> should work if you have the function working in the same scope and have the function return an URL via return.

[danielnn]

"<?php $obj = new ShareCount( the_permalink() ); ?> should work if you have the function working in the same scope and have the function return an URL via return."

 

Still just wrting out the URL

http://creeeative.com

[Irate]

Could you show us the code to the ShareCount object?

[danielnn]

<?

class shareCount {

private $url,$timeout;

function __construct($url,$timeout=10) {

$this->url=rawurlencode($url);

$this->timeout=$timeout;

}

function get_tweets() { 

$json_string = $this->file_get_contents_curl('http://urls.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url=' . $this->url);

$json = json_decode($json_string, true);

return isset($json['count'])?intval($json['count']):0;

}

function get_fb() {

$json_string = $this->file_get_contents_curl('http://api.facebook.com/restserver.php?method=links.getStats&format=json&urls='.$this->url);

$json = json_decode($json_string, true);

return isset($json[0]['total_count'])?intval($json[0]['total_count']):0;

}



function get_pinterest() {

$return_data = $this->file_get_contents_curl('http://api.pinterest.com/v1/urls/count.json?url='.$this->url);

$json_string = preg_replace('/^receiveCount\((.*)\)$/', "\\1", $return_data);

$json = json_decode($json_string, true);

return isset($json['count'])?intval($json['count']):0;

}

private function file_get_contents_curl($url){

$ch=curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, 1);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, $this->timeout);

$cont = curl_exec($ch);

if(curl_error($ch))

{

die(curl_error($ch));

}

return $cont;

}

}

?>




<div class="socialbuttons">

<?php $obj = new ShareCount( the_permalink() ); ?>

<a href=https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" target=_blank><span class=black>

<? echo "".$obj->get_fb();?>

</span><span class=light>Likes</span></a>



<a href=https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" target=_blank><span class=black>

<? echo "".$obj->get_tweets(); ?>

</span><span class=light>Tweets</span></a>



<a href=https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" target=_blank><span class=black>

<? echo "".$obj->get_pinterest(); ?>

</span><span class=light>Pins</span></a>

</div>

[moylin]

Did you try the updated code I put in with the get_permalink() instead of the_permalink.

the_permalink is not designed for what you're trying to do, you have to use get_permalink instead. When i first pasted teh example, i didn't know the difference but udpated it shortly after.

[danielnn]

That's it. Thanks everyone