Wordpress' PHP Header/footer

Hi

I'm trying to integrate MiniBB into my Wordpress based site but I have run into a few problems.

Basically the header and footer (including div contain menu) both use php in them.

Creating two files - header.php and footer.php
Adding to bb_plugins $myheadertop and $myfooter = includes for the relecvent php files
Then I delete all the content from main_header.html and main_footer.html and add in the respective {myheadertop}{myfooter}
To handle insertion of the php code into the html files of the template.

Now if I put plain text in both header.php and footer.php I get

this is plain text header

[ MiniBB content ]

this is plain text footer

If i add php to header php I get ....

this is php header (rendered as expected)

[ MiniBB content ]

this is plain text footer


But when I make both header and footer php I get

this is php header (rendered as expected)
this is php footer (rendered as expected)1
[ MiniBB content ] 1

(NB Number ones do appear)

Now I don't know why making footer.php contain php mucks up the rendering and its driving me up the wall does anyone have any ideas?

Okay heres where I've got to ...

bb_plugins contains the following...

<?php
$wpheader = include('./templates/wp_header.php');
$wpfooter = include('./templates/wp_footer.php');
?>

Main Header contains ....

{$wpheader}

<p>
{$l_menu[0]}{$l_menu[7]}{$l_menu[3]}{$l_menu[2]}{$l_menu[1]}{$l_menu[4 ]}{$l_menu[5]}{$l_menu[8]}{$l_menu[6]}{$l_sepr}</p>

Main footer.html contains ....

<p>{$l_adminpanel_link}</p>

<!--Copyright link. Having only free GPL licence, you can not remove it!-->
<p>Powered by <a href="http://www.miniBB.com">miniBB {$version}</a> &copy; 2001-2004<p>
<!--End of copyright link-->

{$wpfooter}


Now what I think happens is that when the page is called rather than wait for the script to call {$wpfooter} {$wpheader} it appears that it just calls both them at the start of the page and then renders the rest of the content . Also prior to doing so it inserts the character 1

Any ideas guys??

Chris

Changing bb plugins to

<?php
$wpheader == include('./templates/wp_header.php');
$wpfooter == include('./templates/wp_footer.php');
?>

Gets rid of the 1 character but still renders incorrectly

The include() statement includes and evaluates the specified file. It doesn't return any value, so probably you can't associate it with variable.

Sorry for the noobie question but how should I associate the include with the var and return the value?

Chris

After including some script, the variables and their values you get in this script are becoming available also in the script you are including from. Example: you have a.php:

<?
$var=1;
?>

You have b.php:

<?
include ('./a.php');
echo $var;
?>

The output you'll get will be "1".

Yes, but how do I set the vars
$wpheader and $wpfooter
equal to the generated content from
./templates/wp_header.php

From looking at http://uk.php.net/function.include

return.php
<?php

$var = 'PHP';

return $var;

?>


testreturns.php

<?php

$foo = include 'return.php';

echo $foo; // prints 'PHP'

?>

but when I do

<?php
$wpheader = include('./templates/wp_header.php');
$wpfooter = include('./templates/wp_footer.php');
?>

It just outputs the two php files automatically rather than waiting till $wpheader and $footer in the template header and footer html files

<?php
$wpheader == include('./templates/wp_header.php');
$wpfooter == include('./templates/wp_footer.php');
?>

this won't work.

in your bb_plugins.php, include the two files, eg:

<?php
include('./templates/wp_header.php');
include('./templates/wp_footer.php');
?>

now when minibb calls bb_plugins.php it'll run those two php files. assuming that inside those files are the vars $wpheader and $wpfooter, you can put those vars in the templates and their values will be output to the page.

eg, wp_header.php could look like this:

<?php
$wpheader="my site";
?>

now when the template is parsed, it'll say 'my site' anywhere {$wpheader} appears.

The trouble I have with that is that if I want to include PHP in the header and footer.

If all I needed to do was include plain text I can do
bb_plugins.php....

<?php
$wpheader="my site";
$wpfooter="blah";
?>

And it would do the same thing as putting

<?php
$wpheader="my site";
?>

but If I want to use header or footer to pull say a dynamically generated menu I can't do it this way - or if I can I'm not good enough at PHP to realise how. (ie can't have

<?php
$wpheader="<?php some php script ?>";
?>

or can I?

arthuc01
:) yes you can .. you need to learn a bit programming though

for example in some php script there's $wpheader variable

you include this script in bb_plugins.php for example
using include 'somescript.php'; directive

and then $wpheader becomes available in all other files where bb_plugins.php is included(like index.php in our example) and in the bb_plugins.php itself of cours


I suggest you to read some tutorials about how basic php functions work and about php includes as well

maybe you can try this.

in your bb_plugins.php :

<?php

function execute($phpfile) {
$descriptorspec = array(
0 => array("pipe", "r"),
1 => array("pipe", "w"),
2 => array("file", "/dev/null", "a"),
);
$process = proc_open("php", $descriptorspec, $pipes);
if (is_resource($process)) {
$code = file_get_contents ($phpfile, true);
fwrite($pipes[0], $code);
fclose($pipes[0]);
$res="";
while(!feof($pipes[1])) {
$res .= fgets($pipes[1], 1024);
}
fclose($pipes[1]);
$phpfooter = $res;
proc_close($process);
}
return $res;
}

$phpheader = execute('./templates/php_header.php');
$phpfooter = execute('./templates/php_footer.php');

?>


good luck.

Rusty

Hi,

thanks for that but when I do it like you explained I always get X-Powered-By: PHP/5.1.6 Content-type: text/html before the php include.

Any reason why?
Thanks

Guest_Rik
Could you search in Google before posting?

http://www.google.lv/search?hl=en&q=X-Powered-By+text%2Fhtml+php+inclu de

The rightaway link I found:

Apache Tips & Tricks: Hide PHP version (X-Powered-By)

Thanks for the link, that's exactly what I was searching.

I do need to say that I did do Google searchs (for more than a half hour) without finding anything.
And that it was only after not finding anything that I posted here.

Just curious: what kind of phrases to search have you entered?

I've entered just what you have posted here and found it within less than a minute...