Title: Problem with shortcode and php script
Last modified: September 19, 2017
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# Problem with shortcode and php script
* [willy70](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willy70/)
* (@willy70)
* [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-shortcode-and-php-script-please-help/)
* Dear All,
let me explain my little work with WordPress 4.4.10 and my problem.
* I’d like to add to my web site a page to show some information about races
reading
values from custom tables inside wp instance. To do that I’ve prepared a shortcode
adding these statements to functions.php file:
* ```
function race_func() {
ob_start();
include('/var/www/html/wp-content/themes/twentyeleven/race.php');
$var = ob_get_clean();
return $var;
}
add_shortcode( 'race', 'race_func' );
```
* I’ve made some test sith simple php code and I see that this short works fine
but doesn’t work my final php script.
* Inside “race.php” I’ve also two others php programms that I’ve to execute:
* ```