Title: Shortcode double quote issue in php
Last modified: January 28, 2019

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# Shortcode double quote issue in php

 *  Resolved [Pierre Helium](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pierrethenot/)
 * (@pierrethenot)
 * [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-double-quote-issue-in-php/)
 * Hi,
    I’m having an issue when trying to work with the shortcode directly in PHP.
   Here is the code I use : <?php echo do_shortcode(‘[gfchartsreports gf_form_id
   =”1″ include=”42″ height=”300px” type=”horizontalBar” maxentries=”10000″ chart_js_options
   =”title: {display: false}” custom_search_criteria=”{“date_start”:”22 April 1980″,”
   date_end”:”12 Jun 2018″}”]’); ?>
 * The chart works but the date range doesn’t. It works fine if I add the shortcode
   directly to wordpress, but the culprit seems to come from those double quotes
   in the custom_search_criteria option. Do you have a solution for that?
 * Regards,
 * Pierre

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 *  Plugin Author [maxicharts](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maxicharts/)
 * (@maxicharts)
 * [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-double-quote-issue-in-php/#post-11137909)
 * Hi [@pierrethenot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pierrethenot/),
 * Yes the shortcode you are using cannot work : you have to replace double quotes
   around composite attributes (the ones containing json format – custom_search_criteria)
   by simple quote. Please leave double quotes inside:
 * custom_search_criteria='{“date_start”:”22 April 1980″,”date_end”:”12 Jun 2018″}’
 * Can you test it please ?

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