Styjun

I am creating a plugin that currently returns a stores inventory from the database.

Right now I am simply outputting the raw text.

What I would like to do is output the data and have other shortcodes render the data.

For example:

[store_inventory]
[/store_inventory]

The above short code would return the following

array([0]=['item_name'='Juice', 'item_number' = '3dsj'], [1]=['item_name'='bread', 'item_number' = 'br3d']);

What I would like to do is have the store_inventory shortcode loop through the array instead of returning the raw array. And pass every individual returned value it loops through to another set of shortcodes so I can write the data into its own html.

My idea would look like this

[store_inventory] //This shortcode loops through the inventory array returned from the database
<div>
<p>[item_name]</p>//This shortcode returns current item_name being looped
<p>[item_number]</p>//This shortcode returns current item_number being looped
</div>
[/store_inventory]

I am just not sure how to handle looping through the array and passing the current data record from the array to the other two shortcodes.

Any help would be appreciated.

I know it would be easy to just spit out the HTML already formatted from the plugin but this would mean no front end editing via wordpress or version control via wordpress.

You have to loop through each item in store_inventory and pass the data in do_shortcode.

I'm not sure how your store_inventory shortcode looks like but see below example:

function story_inventory_loop( $atts ) 
 extract( shortcode_atts( array(
 //attributes
 ), $atts ) );
 $output = '<div>';
 $args = array(
 'post_type' => 'post', //your post type
 'posts_per_page' => -1, 
 );
 $query = new WP_Query( $args );
 while ( $query->have_posts() ) : $query->the_post();
 $output .= '<p>'.
 echo do_shortcode( '[item_name]' . get_the_title() . '[/item_name]' ).
 '</p>'.
 '<p>'.
 echo do_shortcode( '[item_number]' . get_the_excerpt(). '[/item_number]' ).
 '</p><!-- ends here -->';
 endwhile;
 wp_reset_query();
 $output .= '</div>';
 return $output;

add_shortcode('store_inventory', 'story_inventory_loop');

item_name shortcode:

function item_name_shortcode( $atts, $content = null ) 
 return $content ;

add_shortcode( 'item_name', 'item_name_shortcode' );

item_number shortcode:

function item_number_shortcode( $atts, $content = null ) 
 return $content ;

add_shortcode( 'item_number', 'item_number_shortcode' );

Hope this helps.