Shortcode attribute “title” doesn't appear in $atts array

Question

In a post, I have this text:

[bhours shortcode="test" title="test"]

But the "title" attribute appears to be ignored. Here's a var_dump of the $atts attribute array

array(1) {
  ["shortcode"]=>
  string(4) "test"
}

Here's the PHP code:

function bhour_shortcode_handler($atts){
    global $post,$bhourdays;

    $output='';

    echo var_dump($atts);

    if(isset($atts['shortcode']) && !empty($atts['shortcode'])){


        if(isset($atts['title']) && empty($atts['title'])){
            $output.='';
        }
        elseif(isset($atts['title']) && !empty($atts['title'])){
            $output.='<h3>'.$atts['title'].'</h3>';
        }
        else{
            //get title from post           
        }

    }


    $output.='<p>this is a test</p>';

    return $output;
}

add_shortcode('bhours', 'bhour_shortcode_handler');

Is the "title" attribute some sort of reserved word?

Answer 1

It appears that you are not extracting your $atts correctly or at all for that matter.

Use the correct procedure to get access to the passed attributes allong with setting up defaults as a fallback:

extract( shortcode_atts( array(
    'shortcode' => 'default_value',
    'title' => 'Default Title',
), $atts ) );

There is infact an extensive guideline on shortcode attributes in the Codex, http://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API#Attributes

When in doubt just copy the WP examples and take if from there.

Answer 2

I figured out the problem.

I had a function that was stripping the title attribute from the HTML, but couldn't differentiate between a shortcode and an HTML tag.

So, I converted over from regex to DOMDocument.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15252770/php-preg-replace-match-html-attribute