Question

I am working on integrating two wordpress plugins. What I am trying to do is to add this code<?php DisplayStars(get_the_ID()); ?> into a function of another plugin. I tried $html = '<?php DisplayStars(get_the_ID()); ?>';, but php shows errors. Thanks for your help.

function wpbusdirman_post_excerpt($count)
{   
    $wpbusdirman_gpid=wpbusdirman_gpid();
    $wpbusdirman_permalink=get_permalink($wpbusdirman_gpid);
    $html = '';
    $html .= '<div id="wpbdmlistings"';
    $isasticky = get_post_meta(get_the_ID(),'sticky');
    if(isset($isasticky) && !empty($isasticky))
    {
        $isasticky=$isasticky[0];
    }
    if(isset($isasticky) && ($isasticky == 'approved'))
    {
        if($count&1)
        {
            $html .= ' class="wpbdmoddsticky"';
        }
        else 
        {
            $html .= ' class="wpbdmevensticky"';
        }
    }
    else 
    {
        if($count&1)
        {
            $html .= ' class="wpbdmodd"';
        }
        else 
        {
            $html .= ' class="wpbdmeven"';
        }
    }
    $html .='><div class="listingthumbnail">' . wpbusdirman_display_the_thumbnail() . '</div><div class="listingdetails">';
    $html .= wpbusdirman_display_the_listing_fields();
    $html .= wpbusdirman_view_edit_delete_listing_button();
    $html .= '</div><div style="clear:both;"></div></div>';
    return $html;
} 

Answer 1

The code base you’re working in is php. The code you’re adding is php. That means, you don’t need to add it inside the html, but simply call the function. (You may need an include at the top of the file for the function to work if it’s not in this file)

$html .= DisplayStars(get_the_ID());

should be all you need in the call to add the text to the html.