Including PHP

[Joe McPlumber]

Hi,

I have a PHP script for querying Amazon and displaying the results. It works fine on its own.

If i put it into a UDT it's unhappy until i move all the functions to the beginning of the script. Once i do that it mostly works except i get an error like this:

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Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/test/public_html/lib/content.functions.php(771) : eval()'d code on line 166

If i leave the script alone and place it between {php} tags, i get an error like this:

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Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/test/public_html/tmp/templates_c/%%06^065^065BC93F%%tpl_body%3A27.php on line 517

But it's not an invalid argument since it works outside of CMSMS.

I'd be happy to solve this, but mostly i'd like to get a general handle on what i should or should not try to do with PHP inside of CMSMS, and what sort of guidelines i should follow. I put a lot of work into modifying this script, assuming that when i was done i'd just make a UDT and be done with it. Is that not a generally safe assumption?

Thanks,
-joe

[RonnyK]

you can put the logic in a UDT, but have to remember to NOT use the opening/ending

Ronny