I am very new to WordPress, so I would appreciate some help.
I am using WordPress as a CMS, and I am trying to make the thing work so that when I select a page to edit, there is a special box where I can input PHP code that will execute on my page.
I have found the PHP exec plugin, which works perfectly, but I would like to keep the code out of my main text editor, out of the way of my client's careless fingers.
Any suggestions would be very, very appreciated. Thanks!
You could create a template for each one, and include your PHP there.
Simply select the template from the page edit page.
But if you are only including a little PHP per page, you could get the slug via WordPress in your page template and act on it accordingly.
You can also add an extra meta box on the post editor page, only visible to you, with a textarea where you can add the code. You would save it as a meta field of the post. Your template can check for the existence of this field, and execute it if found.
PHP Exec is the best plugin I have found, and I looked long and hard for that one. The problem with doing it as you suggest is that if the PHP code displays an item on the page, it still has to be formatted within the page as well. It is a simple logistical problem, but somewhat of a complex coding problem. I haven't been able to get around to working on creating a better plugin for it.
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(I am not sure if this is the proper place for this post. If not, just let me know where to repost it. I don't have a lot of experience with PHP. I 'know' just enough to be dangerous.)
I am using the CMS, HTMLy, and am trying to list the archives on a separate page, instead of a side column.
In the main page the following command is used to display the archives in the column:
<?php echo archive_list() ?>
However, I am having a problem getting the PHP to display the list on a web page. The system uses markdown (.md) so I can't run it from there.
Any suggestions?
I'm working on a website, that was done by someone else previously. Owner didn't end up with previous dev on a good terms and I cant contact him now with questions.
For most of part, code is a regular PHP. However, in some places I see weird tags that I cant recognize.
for example:
<php:dropdownlist:ddlTypeOfResidence></php:dropdownlist:ddlTypeOfResidence>
The code above, generates the dropdown with values. I don't understand how to read this tag, on the sidebar, they have the get a quote form, and I need to add this field on that sidebar form. I copy pasted the line given above, and it works only on pages, where the original form exists that includes that line as well.
Example, page freeQuote has a form, and on that page on sidebar, get a free quote mini form is also displayed. On this page, input field gets the values dynamically, so that TAG works on this page...
On the other pages, where the original full form is not loaded, this dropdown is still displayed on the sidebar mini form, however, the values are empty.
Anyways, before everything else, I need to understand what language / tag is that, how to read it.
I believe it is a basic XML converter. The below code is actually a XML code:
<php:dropdownlist:ddlTypeOfResidence></php:dropdownlist:ddlTypeOfResidence>
What it does is: It parses php:dropdownlist:ddlTypeOfResidence string using .split(':') and does the needed functionality accordingly.
This is a template engine that change some tags into native PHP renders.
I don't know if it's a regular engine ( maybe a custom engine ), but most powerful and simple PHP engine is Smarty. ( This isn't Smarty )
You can look at the PHP codes hope that you find the engine.
Good Luck
I'm a beginner in PHP but an expert in programming in general, so I program C and C++ usually, but I have no experience with posting and getting with PHP, so I don't really understand the exact mechanism how this works.
Yesterday I worked for like two hours on my webserver and set a page on my Wordpress to make visitors upload a file. The page submits a form to a custom PHP page, but that page is empty and dull, and I would like to make the confirmation page in Wordpress itself. What I tried to do for that is that I created a new page, and used the plugin "insert PHP", and simply pasted the code from the page, to which the form submits, and made my upload form post to that Wordpress page. This doesn't seem to work.
How can I get this to work?
Simplifying the question: How can I make my form in wordpress post to another wordpress page and give the response in a wordpress page rather than a PHP page created from scratch?
If my question is not clear or requires any additional information to be answered, please let me know.
Thank you.
You're going to want to get to know specialized page templates in WordPress, and the page templating system in general. Ideally, you'd create a page in wp-admin and create a specialized page template for it.
If you're doing form processing, you can do that in the new template...but may be better off moving that logic to the functions.php file. Use action hooks to ensure that your processing functions are run on submit.
I'm starting with "PrestaShop" and I just can't figure out, how to put a link in template to custom page I created in CMS module... I thought, there might be some easy way, as there is in WordPress, like "get_permalink(ID)", but there's nothing like this and I can't find anything about this anywhere and it just drives me mad.
So, here's the deal, I've got a custom template, and there are some top links, like "About Us". I've created this page in CMS and it has ID "6".
How do I make this bloody "PrestaShop" to generate a link to this page in my template file?
About
I think you're looking for SMARTY template tags and custom variables defined for Prestashop specifically. The one the you probably need is {$base_dir} which will be translated to http://www.yoursite.com/ obviously with appropriate protocol (non-secure HTTP or secured HTTPS).
After that, you only need to include page URL, which you can get from Admin->Tools->CMS section.
If I find any specific tags that you can use to call the content, I will update my post here.
Your Text
the "WHAT goes here" is just the url you want your link drives the client to when clicking on that link.
You need to understand a little minimum of HTML for this I guess. Check html tag a meaning .
Prestashop has a fairly good and extensive documentation. Two and half seconds googling drives me here, just like answering your question it looks like.
Since I had some comments on the formulation of my question, I decided to rewrite it completely. And also, I understand a little bit more about wordpress so it should make more sense now.
So, let's start with what I'm trying to accomplish by using a simple example:
Goal:
Make a search engine for some products and link to them using a database to generate the information.
Result:
http://my.site.url/wordpress/<plugin-name> <-- The page with the "search" and "search result
http://my.site.url/wordpress/<plugin-name>/products/<product_name> <-- When click on a search result
Part 1:
I want to make a plugin with the name "plugin-name" Right now, I put my code in
http://my.site.url/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/<plugin-name>
On the activate, I create some tables with some data. Since there is no page yet, I create 1 on the fly using the API call 'wp_insert_post'. I give the name and slug "myPlugin".
So, when I go on the main site, I can see my newly created page "myPlugin". But right now, there is no content attached to it. To do so, from what I understand, I need to create a page in my plug-in directory named "myPlugin.php".
http://my.site.url/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/<plugin-name>/myPlugin.php
So, how do I link the page I created manually and the source file in the plugin directory?
Part 2
When clicking on a link in the search result, I would like to have a page "product.php" and display its information. So, is it possible to create a "temporary url" for the result using sub pages (see result at the beginning)? And if possible, how can we achieve that?
Thanks in advance and I hope it's clearer.
u can find how to create plugin from
http://ditio.net/2007/08/09/how-to-create-wordpress-plugin-from-a-scratch/
in plugin write function for search(as per u r logic) fetch result
create a custom page refer video from www.wordpressmax.com/customize-wordpress/custom-page
in custom pages template in between get_header(); and get_footer(); call search function and display records.
Thats it.
thisMayhem is right. This sounds like a bunch of nonsense. But, if you're trying to make a WP page that executes some custom PHP, look up the WP template hierarchy.
What you can do is this:
create a WP "page" - call it "Search results."
create a template directory file called page-search-results.php (filename corresponds with slug of page from step 1)
put some generic header/footer stuff there (see other template files - most often it's just a question of putting in <?php get_header(); ?> and <?php get_footer(); ?>)
put PHP code in that thar page. in them hills.
if you use a caching plugin, may want to put an exemption for /search-results/
So, when someone pulls up http://your.site/search-results/ - your custom PHP code will execute. It's up to you to make that logic and communication happen - whether via $_GET or $_POST, etc.
I'm sorry you're experiencing some problems. Unfortunately as we say above because it's a 'one off' for a client project we can't support it - it works for them :) Feel free to rip it apart and retest and if you have any success let us know.