Title: Using EM shortcodes in php context Last modified: August 21, 2016 --- # Using EM shortcodes in php context * Resolved [freakzone89](https://wordpress.org/support/users/freakzone89/) * (@freakzone89) * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-em-shortcodes-in-php-context/) * hey guys, * i designed a single page using php-code on it. now i want to display different event-categories depending on different user-roles and therefore i want to use shortcode from event-manager. but unfortunately it doesn’t work. could anybody help? * this is what i’ve got so far: * ``` ``` * cheers * p.s.: the user-roles are added by myself, so they aren’t standard – but this doesn’t seem to be the problem * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/events-manager/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/events-manager/) Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total) * [caimin_nwl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caimin_nwl/) * (@caimin_nwl) * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-em-shortcodes-in-php-context/#post-4089217) * Hi, * If you put * `echo do_shortcode('[events_list category="8"]') ;` * outside of the _if_ statements does it work? * Thread Starter [freakzone89](https://wordpress.org/support/users/freakzone89/) * (@freakzone89) * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-em-shortcodes-in-php-context/#post-4089231) * i tried it but it doesn’t work! * Plugin Author [Marcus (aka @msykes)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/netweblogic/) * (@netweblogic) * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-em-shortcodes-in-php-context/#post-4089269) * how about just * `echo do_shortcode('[events_list]') ;` * if not, then make sure you’re adding your code to the right place * Thread Starter [freakzone89](https://wordpress.org/support/users/freakzone89/) * (@freakzone89) * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-em-shortcodes-in-php-context/#post-4089406) * i first tried this, to prove that the combination of the if statements work, and it does! * ``` if ( user_role_check( 'd1' )): echo 'd1' ; elseif ( user_role_check( 'd2' )): echo 'd2'; elseif ( user_role_check( 'h1' )): echo 'h1'; elseif ( user_role_check( 'h2' )): echo 'h2'; elseif ( user_role_check( 'admin' )): echo 'admin; endif; ``` * now i tried it Marcus’ way and changed it to: * ``` if ( user_role_check( 'd1' )): echo 'd1' ; elseif ( user_role_check( 'd2' )): echo 'd2'; elseif ( user_role_check( 'h1' )): echo 'h1'; elseif ( user_role_check( 'h2' )): echo 'h2'; elseif ( user_role_check( 'admin' )): echo do_shortcode('[events_list]'); endif; ``` * and it doesn’t work. i just changed the admin position as i’m working as an admin and to minimize the potential error sources. i think the code is also positioned the right way. * any other ideas? * cheers * Plugin Author [Marcus (aka @msykes)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/netweblogic/) * (@netweblogic) * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-em-shortcodes-in-php-context/#post-4089409) * try * `echo EM_Events::output();` * that should definitely work… otherwise something else is going wrong * Thread Starter [freakzone89](https://wordpress.org/support/users/freakzone89/) * (@freakzone89) * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-em-shortcodes-in-php-context/#post-4089429) * yes, it does work. but it doesn’t fulfill the need of showing a seperate category of events. * Plugin Support [angelo_nwl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/angelo_nwl/) * (@angelo_nwl) * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-em-shortcodes-in-php-context/#post-4089430) * sorry, can you give us more details about this? eg. do you want it to group per category * Thread Starter [freakzone89](https://wordpress.org/support/users/freakzone89/) * (@freakzone89) * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-em-shortcodes-in-php-context/#post-4089431) * i want to show a group of events that belongs to a certain event-category. for example users with role “h1” should only see events from category 8 and users with role “d2” should only see events from category 7 and so on. so i need the code to only show events from a certain category. * hope that’s the information you need. * [Philip John](https://wordpress.org/support/users/philipjohn/) * (@philipjohn) * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-em-shortcodes-in-php-context/#post-4089441) * Hiya, * If you take a look at the output() function in the EM_Events class you will see a number of options you can provide as parameters, including specifying a category. * Thanks, Phil * Thread Starter [freakzone89](https://wordpress.org/support/users/freakzone89/) * (@freakzone89) * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-em-shortcodes-in-php-context/#post-4089445) * oh yeah! * this is how it works, thank you phil! instead of `echo do_shortcode('[events_list category="8"]') ;` i used `echo EM_Events::output( array('category'=>8)) ;` * cheers Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total) The topic ‘Using EM shortcodes in php context’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/events-manager/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=3550347) * [Events Manager - Calendar, Bookings, Tickets, and more!](https://wordpress.org/plugins/events-manager/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/events-manager/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/events-manager/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/events-manager/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/events-manager/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/events-manager/reviews/) ## Tags * [connection](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/connection/) * [event](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/event/) * [manager](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/manager/) * [php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/php/) * [shortcode](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/shortcode/) * 10 replies * 5 participants * Last reply from: [freakzone89](https://wordpress.org/support/users/freakzone89/) * Last activity: [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-em-shortcodes-in-php-context/#post-4089445) * Status: resolved