External PHP Includes with content pages.

[silence]

I have a wordpress theme I created that contains a sidebar with a portion that the client wants to edit. I figured I could create a very basic "content" page under CMSMS with a blank template and then use php include to import it into the wordpress theme. It's mainly just going to be updating text with an image or two, nothing more.

I think the main problem is including a php file that doesnt have a proper file name. Since my page is index.php?page=blog-sidebar...

I realize its somewhat dangerous to have it setup this way, but I even tried the following code to retrieve the string query (my pagename) in my wordpress PHP (which is located at /blog/ and my CMSMS is located at the root):

$_GET['page'] = 'blog-sidebar';
include('../index.php');

What would you recommend the best way to do this would be.

I think If i could somehow make one of my pages have a URL of page.php instead of index.php?page=page it would work somewhat correctly.

[viebig]

allow_url_fopen must be enable and your host needs to be linux

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include 'file.php?foo=1&bar=2';

- will look for a file on the system

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include 'http://www.example.com/file.php?foo=1&bar=2';

- will get a generated page

further reading:

http://br2.php.net/function.include

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<?php

/* This example assumes that www.example.com is configured to parse .php
* files and not .txt files. Also, 'Works' here means that the variables
* $foo and $bar are available within the included file. */

// Won't work; file.txt wasn't handled by www.example.com as PHP
include 'http://www.example.com/file.txt?foo=1&bar=2';

// Won't work; looks for a file named 'file.php?foo=1&bar=2' on the
// local filesystem.
include 'file.php?foo=1&bar=2';

// Works.
include 'http://www.example.com/file.php?foo=1&bar=2';

$foo = 1;
$bar = 2;
include 'file.txt';  // Works.
include 'file.php';  // Works.

?>

[silence]

Thank you for the quick reply. My server is linux, where can I enable allow_url_fopen... Is it in the CMSMS config.php file?

By the way, here are the current errors I am receiving using the php include code I included above:

Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at /home/content/p/p/r/username/html/blog/wp-content/themes/pixeled.1.9.1/pixeled/header.php:7) in /home/content/p/p/r/username/html/include.php on line 34

Fatal error: Call to a member function GetConfig() on a non-object in /home/content/p/p/r/username/html/lib/adodb.functions.php on line 7

[Jeff]

Why don't you just copy the sidebar and other files into UDTs?

[Nullig]

Why don't you just use CMSMS as the input mechanism, but use straight db lookups for pulling the data into wordpress?

Nullig

[viebig]

Nulling and ajprog presented better alternatives to achieve the same goal. If you can provide a link I can teach you how to do it.

Regards

G

[silence]

The problem before was mainly with getting this file into my wordpress from CMSMS, and my host disabling allow_url_fopen wasnt helping at all....

I am going to try to have the blog use a db lookup to populate the page, instead of the multiple steps involved with includes....

I have this one page on my blog where I just want a small section of the page to come from the CMS. Is anyone familiar with using db lookups to get this done? Specifically with CMSMS.

Thanks again for all the help.