Extract the URL from the Uncanny Toolkit Logout Shortcode

Written by Dan Mossop

When working to integrate LearnDash into your site, you may wish to make use of Uncanny Toolkit and the useful shortcodes it provides. One such shortcode is the "uo_logout" shortcode which adds a logout link to the page. However, if you find yourself needing to get the raw logout URL, without the full HTML <a> tag surrounding it, here's how to do it.

To extract the URL from the Uncanny Toolkit logout shortcode:

  • Create a new [db_uo_logout] shortcode to wrap the [uo_logout] shortcode.
  • In the new shortcode, extract and return the url.
  • Add the shortcode PHP code to your site:
  • Use [db_uo_logout] to get the logout URL.

Extract the URL from the Uncanny Toolkit Logout Shortcode using PHP

The Uncanny Toolkit's logout shortcode doesn't provide a built-in option to return only the URL. To address this, you can create a wrapper shortcode using PHP, which extracts the URL from the output. Here’s a snippet you can add to your child theme’s functions.php file or via a plugin like Code Snippets

1function db_uo_logout_url( $atts ) {
2 $output = do_shortcode( '[uo_logout]' ); // Replace with your shortcode
3 if ( preg_match( '/href=["]([^"]+)["]/', $output, $matches ) ) {
4 return esc_url( $matches[1] );
5 }
6 return '';
7}
8add_shortcode( 'db_uo_logout', 'db_uo_logout_url' );

After adding this code, you can use the shortcode [db_uo_logout] to return just the URL, which you can then use wherever you need the logout URL.

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About Dan Mossop

Dan is a Scottish-born web developer, now living in Brisbane with his wife and son. He has been sharing tips and helping users with Divi since 2014. He created Divi Booster, the first Divi plugin, and continues to develop it along with 20+ other Divi plugins. Dan has a PhD in Computer Science, a background in web security and likes a lot of stuff, 

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