Dear Beesten,
i suggest you edit the source code of the plugin, and instead of the shortcode parameteres, use your own database values to produce the gauge.
If you like my plugin, a rating would be appreciated. 🙂
Thank you for the answer! I will certanly look into trying to edit the source code.
Another way I thought could work was calling the shortcode from a template with some additional php that does the database queries. For some reason I cant even get the static example shortcode to work?!
I’ve made a template I’m using with the particular page. In the template I use following code:
<?php
echo do_shortcode('[gauge width="400px" height="220px" value="80" min="0" max="150" title="First Gauge" label="km" showminmax="true" color="#E16300" backcolor="#EDEDED" widthscale="0.8"]');
?>
This produces nothing unfortunately. If this would work I would like to see if one could pass a numeric variable, for example $distance, like this:
<?php
echo do_shortcode('[gauge width="400px" height="220px" value="'.$distance.'" min="0" max="150" title="First Gauge" label="km" showminmax="true" color="#E16300" backcolor="#EDEDED" widthscale="0.8"]');
?>
Any ideas why the above isn’t working?
If I could get this to work I would officially adore your plugin 😉
Your code
echo do_shortcode('[gauge width="400px" height="220px" value="80" min="0" max="150" title="First Gauge" label="km" showminmax="true" color="#E16300" backcolor="#EDEDED" widthscale="0.8"]');
works perfect for me when type it an a page template.
Check it out again.
Alright, got it to work, seemed to matter where in the template-file I added the “echo do_shortcode” thing. Worked just fine when I wrote it below the “get-header()” part. I’m a total beginner! Anyway it was no problem to pass a variable $distance to the shortcode using the code above. Efxaristo poli!
I’m off to the the rating-section 🙂
Glad to hear that! Enjoy! 🙂
