display entries left as a shortcode (solution here)

Hey guys - I wrote a shortcode that allows you to display the amount of entries left as a shortcode.

Its useful if you want to put a link to a page with a form on it, and display the amount of entries left. I've also made it so if there are 0 entries left, it says its sold out...you can customize that if you want.

add this to your functions and [spotsleft id="x"] will be the shortcode on your site. x will be the id of the form.

[php]
function spotsleftShortcode($atts, $content=null) {

	extract(shortcode_atts(array(
	'id' => ''
	), $atts));

	$form_id = $id;
	$form = RGFormsModel::get_form_meta($form_id);
	$entry_count = RGFormsModel::get_lead_count($form['id'], '');
	$entries_left = $form["limitEntriesCount"] - $entry_count;

	if($entries_left > 1):
		$entries_left_message = $form['title']. ' – Only ' . $entries_left . ' spots left!';
	elseif($entries_left == 1):
		$entries_left_message = $form['title']. ' – Only ' . $entries_left . ' spot left!';
	else:
		$entries_left_message = $form['title']. '  – Currently sold out.  Please fill out our waiting list if you wish to join';
	endif;
	return $entries_left_message;
}

add_shortcode('spotsleft', 'spotsleftShortcode');

No problem! I LOVE this plugin. I wasted $75 on an events plugin that did not do everything my client wanted...so now im using this along with all in one calendar plugin and everything is working perfectly. So worth the $200.

Thanks!!!

This looks great! Where do I have to place the code? I tried my theme's functions.php but that didn't work...

Thanks in advance!

When I add the code to my theme's functions.php, after uploading my site doesn't load but gives an error: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_FUNCTION, expecting ')' in /public/sites/www.ipadacademy.nl/wp-content/themes/fusion/functions.php on line 25

I pasted the code right above the ?> that is already there. I have no knowledge of php, but would love to get this to work :-)

My code: http://pastebin.com/wKmC4KBz

This gives the following error: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /public/sites/www.ipadacademy.nl/wp-content/themes/fusion/functions.php on line 35

Thanks for your help!

Problem solved! Thanks to David Smith at Gravitywiz, who discovered that the minus sign on this line is actually an mash: $form["limitEntriesCount"] - $entry_count

Changing that to a normal minus sign made it work. Thanks for all the efforts!!