Title: PHP doesn't seem to parse…
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# PHP doesn't seem to parse…

 *  [Accountteam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/accountteam/)
 * (@accountteam)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-doesnt-seem-to-parse/)
 * First of all, great plugin. This was what I was looking for. Saves me a lot of
   time to create it myself. I have two questions though:
 * 1. As the title says. I’ve created a block of HTML in combination with shortcodes(
   shortcodes are from the plugin Custom Content Types). So far so good, because
   this works like a charm. However, now I would like to include PHP and for some
   reason this doesn’t work. When I use <?php echo ‘test’; ?> nothing happens. When
   I open the console and view the source, I litteraly see the PHP part (including
   the PHP-tags). If I exclude the PHP-tags and just echo something, I just see 
   what i wrote as well. If i try ;?><?php //code ?><?; the whole block doesn’t 
   work anymore.
 * 2. Is it somehow possible to extend the button on the admin panel to add the 
   shortcode to your site. In the template I am using several variables. If possible,
   I would like to generate some sort of GUI so the unknowing user just selects 
   stuff like ‘category’, ‘sort by’, etc. All the button then does is generate the
   shortcode as it already does, but then with extra parameters like ‘category=test’.
 * My current code looks like this. Bare in mind that the shortcode is some sort
   of loop within Custom Content Type.
 *     ```
       [summarize_posts post_type="woningtype" taxonomy="category" taxonomy_term="%%categorie%%" order="ASC" orderby="post_title"]
       <div class="woningtype">
       <div class="woningtypeinner">
       <div class="woningheader" style="background: url('[+thumbnail_src+]');">
       <div class="woningheadercontent">
       <h3>[+Zorglocatie+]</h3>
       <h4>[+Locatie+]</h4>
       </div>
       </div>
       <div class="woningtypecontent">
       <h5>[+type+]</h5>
       [+post_content+]
       <strong><a href="[+permalink+]">Meer over [+Zorglocatie+]</a></strong>
       <div class="clearfix">
       <div class="infoleft">Huurprijs:</div>
       <div class="inforight">[+Huurprijs+]</div>
       </div>
       <div class="clearfix">
       <div class="infoleft">Servicekosten:</div>
       <div class="inforight">[+Servicekosten+]</div>
       </div>
       <div class="clearfix">
       <div class="infoleft">Woonzorgservicepakket:</div>
       <div class="inforight">[+Woonzorgservicepakket+]</div>
       </div>
   
       <hr />
   
       <div class="clearfix">
       <div class="infoleft"><strong>Totaalkosten:</strong></div>
       <div class="inforight"><strong>[+totaalpermaand+]</strong></div>
       </div>
       <div class="ButtonGreen"><a href="#">Informatie aanvragen</a></div>
       </div>
       </div>
       </div>
       [/summarize_posts]
       ```
   
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/global-content-blocks/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/global-content-blocks/)

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 *  Thread Starter [Accountteam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/accountteam/)
 * (@accountteam)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-doesnt-seem-to-parse/#post-6330237)
 * Anyone?
 *  [jamesathisiphone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jamesathisiphone/)
 * (@jamesathisiphone)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-doesnt-seem-to-parse/#post-6330243)
 * Hey,
 * On the edit content block wordpress admin page, set the block type to be PHP.
 * Looks like you can’t have mixed type blocks, the whole block (aka code chunk )
   will just be evaluated as some PHP.
 * Thanks.

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 * Last reply from: [jamesathisiphone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jamesathisiphone/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-doesnt-seem-to-parse/#post-6330243)
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