creating a my_recent_posts shortcode

Hey guys,

for some reason I can’t get sanitize title to work. I’m using the following code to create a shortcode in Shortcode Exec PHP Administration. When I echo the_title() it shows “Test Post”. When I echo sanitize_title( the_title() )it shows the same thing “Test Post”. If I echo sanitize_title( ‘Test Post’ ) it shows test-post. As far as I understand it its ok to pass the_title() to sanitize_title() but for whatever reason it doesn’t seem to be working. Any help?

*also am I in the right place here? I’ve only ever posted to specific plugin support*

Thanks,

Dan

code:

extract(shortcode_atts(array('arg' => 'default'), $atts));
$post_author = do_shortcode( '[post_author]' );
$user = get_user_by('login', $post_author);
query_posts('author='.$user->ID.'&order=ASC');
while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
	echo '
<li>';
	echo sanitize_title( the_title());
	echo '<a href="http://www.businessnetworkingorangecounty.com/';
	sanitize_title( the_title() );
	echo '">';
	the_title();
	echo '';
	echo '</li>
';
endwhile;

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