Wordpress - Shortcode inside shortcode

Question

I try to make a shortcode like

add_shortcode( 'test', 'test' );
function test( $atts, $content = null ) {
    $html = '<div>'.do_shortcode( $content ).'</div>';
    return $html;
}

I try some thing like [test][test]this is test[/test][/test] But that not working.

How to fix that. Thanks

Answer 1

This is a limitation of the shortcode parser.

You can check out this entry from the Codex on the shortcode API, where it says:

However the parser will fail if a shortcode macro is used to enclose another macro of the same name:

[tag-a]   
    [tag-a]    
    [/tag-a] 
 [/tag-a]

This is a limitation of the context-free regexp parser used by do_shortcode() - it is very fast but does not count levels of nesting, so it can't match each opening tag with its correct closing tag in these cases.