To be honest I do not understand PHP just yet. But what I am trying to achieve sounds easy in my head.
Here is the code at the top of my wordpress single.php file:
<?php get_header(); ?>
I have created a separate header i.e header2.php.
I want to know what do I need to write at the top of my single.php template to call header2.php instead of header.php?
If you want to have header-2.php (and not header2.php) you have to call:
<?php get_header('2'); ?>
See this page: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_header
Just create a header file like
header-myHeader2.php
and call it like
get_header('myHeader2');
Syntax is header-name.php and you can call using the name part.
Read more here.
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I am trying to integrate an ad package into my Smarty based site. I have been given the following PHP code that I need to add to my footer file. But due to it being Smarty I need to add the code instead to my php file so that it can be called/included in my Smarty template file. This was the code that I was given and that I need to include:
<?php if(function_exists('ad_footer')) ad_footer(); ?>
But in the php file I am not sure how to achieve this - I have got this example and wanted to know if it looked correct??
if(function_exists('ad_footer')) {
ob_start();
ad_footer();
$smarty->assign('ad_footer', ob_get_clean());
}
Does the above look the right way to do it?
Thanks in advance
I went ahead and created a test page to see if the above worked and it did so will stick with this code.
I have a lot of webpages that all have the same title and the client keeps asking me to change the name of the title, is it possible to use php to update all the titles in the html document at once?
Thanks
edit: I don't have any knowledge of PHP beyond using wordpress, I was thinking it would probably look similar to the get_header link, but when searching PHP get I don't get anything I can make use of.
All you need to do is create a separate file named something like title.php
The only thing you need in this file is something like this:
<?php
$title='titlename';
?>
Then in all of the php files that need this (note, if you've been saving them as .html they may not work; most of the time they will need to be .php) add this at the top of your page
<?php
include_once('title.php');
?>
Below, all you need to do is inside the head tag is this
<title><?php echo $title; ?></title>
Any time you need to change the title name, just change it in the title.php file.
I absolutely don't post a question here in SO unless I really can't find a way to solve my problem myself. I did a lot of googling and was not able to find a solution for this one problem I am about to describe.
Here is the problem. I am creating a templated php website. With templated I mean something like below:
<?php include("header.php");?>
<div id="content">
<div id="main">
<h2><?php echo($page_title);?></h2>
<?php
echo ($page_content);
?>
</div>
<?php include("sidebar.php");?>
</div>
<?php include("footer.php");?>
As you can see here page template ECHOES the content of the $page_content variable between header and footer sections to build the page.
To keep the code clean and separated (in my own way) I have been placing the html content in .txt files (let's say page1_content.txt) and assigning the txt content to this variable ($page_content) as below:
$page_content = file_get_contents("page1_content.txt");
My problem starts when I place some php code in page1_content.txt, lets' call this file page2_content.php (yes, I change the file from .txt to .php). Then I assign the content of this file to $page_content variable as below as usual:
$page_content = file_get_contents("page2_content.php");
Now, when the page template ECHOES page2_content.php contents the php code in it is also echoed as string and not executed, but I am trying to query a database and do some stuff in this file with some php code. I mean, I want the php code inside page2_content.php to be executed and the cumulative html code to be echoed by the "echo" line inside the template file.
How can I achieve this?
Please ask me any questions if you need more info/clarification.
Thanks
EDİT:
As many people here suggested the solution was including the file. Actually, I tried including the file before but it didn't look like it was working, it broke my template, so I though I was on the wrong track and quit the "include" way of doing this. Since everybody here is advising to use include I tried that again. I replaced the php code in "page2_content.php" with a basic 1-line code just to see if it gets executed before adding generated html code without breaking the template and it worked. Apparently my php code had a problem at first place and hence broke my template execution.
Now I have changed the template structure slightly and pages using the template, and it seems to work nicely. Thanks a lot everybody. I have up-voted every answer suggesting that I use include :)
As #Ali suggested, you could include the files. The other option which I highly suggest you do not use is the eval() function.
I think what you want to do is to include your content PHP file, not echo it (as you are doing with header.php and footer.php).
echo($page_content);
Would become as below:
include("page2_content.php");
You've already done this in your footer and sidebar, just use include()
I have a PHP that returns some HTML code, for example, if I execute this in the browser,
http://www.myserver.com/myscript.php?size=300
this will return some html code like this,
'<div><img src="..." /></div>'
I am wondering if it's possible I can call this php script in my html code directly? For example, if I want to use the output from the PHP script in my Wordpress sidebar widget?
You can use file_get_contents() like this:
<div class="sidebar">
<?php
$html = file_get_contents("http://www.myserver.com/myscript.php?size=300");
echo $html;
?>
</div>
If your Current page's extension is not php, you cannot call php in it directly.
You have to use some javascript/jquery/ajax to run the php file externally and load the data into a class or id using one of those javascript based code.
If your current page is already a php file than,you can use include(); or require(); functions and it does the job.
above answers are correct, but that might be not concerned for wordpress, that are of core php functionality.
i have a different way for sidebar use, that's provide by wordpress already.
it is an inbuilt functionality, please take a look towards my answer.
Show active sidebar in Wordpress
How to make wordpress sidebar
you can found ::
try this one, it is different way of using sidebar
[1] put your all "left_bar"(sidebar) code in a new file named "sidebar-left_bar"
[2] save it with header.php, function.php and all files (saving location)
[3] now just use <?php get_sidebar( 'left_bar' ); ?> where you want to use
Thanks
I have a wordpress theme that I like to duplicate. To make things easier on myself, I'm trying to use the bloginfo function to call my jquery file..like this:
<script type="text/javascript" src="<?php echo bloginfo("template_url"); ?>/js/jquery-1.4.2.min.js"></script>
I just can't get it to work. When I check my source file it looks exactly like the code above.
Can this even be done, or should I just forget it? Thanks guys!
Are you sure the above code is actually in a PHP-file and gets parsed by the server? I can't think of a different reason why PHP-code should just be printed and not executed.
See the Referencing Files From a Template chapter in http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development
Whats the name of this file? It should end in .php.
What does the source look like when you view it from the browser?
Are there other places in the file where you use and is that data correct?
Make sure there are no blank lines at the end of the source file. PHP doesn't like blanks lines at the end of the code.
Two problems: No need for the echo in the WP template tag; should be
<?php bloginfo("template_url"); ?>
Template Tags/info « WordPress Codex
And, why are you trying to include jQuery from the template directory, when it resides in wp-includes/js? You should be using Function Reference/wp enqueue script, if your theme doesn't already include jQuery.
You should try to edit your theme's header.php file directly because custom fields of your theme may not be executed by PHP interpreter.
As I've never used PHP, this is only a guess...
PHP is a server side language, and you're tyring to use it on the client side?