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I am trying to get the slug of a custom taxonomy for the current post that this shortcode is embedded in if the user doesn't define the slug he wants explicitly in the shortcode. 

function get_date_posts($params, $content){
        $default_params = array(
            'post_type'     => 'post',
            'order'         => 'asc',
            'orderby'       => 'meta_value',
            'posts_per_page'=> 5,
            'meta_key'      => 'fl_date_picker'
        );

        $terms = get_the_terms( $post->ID, 'calendar_event_type' );
        if ( !empty( $terms ) ){
        $params['slug'] = array_shift( $terms );
        }

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This line is causing the error: $params['slug'] = array_shift( $terms );

Catchable fatal error: Object of class stdClass could not be converted to string

How can I get around this? Tried everything to convert this to a string..

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You don't specify where exactly the error comes from but I assume your problem is that you assign an object to the slug instead of a string. your code should look like

$t = array_shift( $terms );
$params['slug'] = $t->slug;
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    Apart from that, $post is also an undefined variable in context, failing $terms. :-) Commented Feb 24, 2015 at 5:44
  • $post seems to work Commented Feb 24, 2015 at 11:32
  • @JoannaMikalai, you should still add it as a global or as a parameter to the function. It is possible that it works just because some default handling of error condition gives you the correct result Commented Feb 24, 2015 at 12:04
  • ok how can i make it to tie to the argument ''post_type' => 'post'' ? Commented Feb 24, 2015 at 12:27
  • should I just change this to 'post_type' => $post, ? Commented Feb 24, 2015 at 12:30

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