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1. blots
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   I am attempting to write a plugin which will display a dynamic page based on a GET request. For example:

   http://mydomain.com/?showme=thisitem

   would display a page with information about "thisitem".

   I would also like to make this theme independent so I would like to not require a special template. I'm not sure of the best way to do this.

   I thought this would be the approach to take but I can not figure out how to bulldog my page content into the page. This, of course, doesn't work but it demonstrates what I'm trying to do:

   add_action('init', 'show_item');
   
   function show_item() {
     $showme = $_GET['showme'];
     if ( !empty($showme) ){
       $post="My Dynamic Page Content";
       include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/page.php');
       exit;
     }
   }

   how do I go about getting my own page content to display like normal page content?

2. blots
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Can anyone point me in the right direction here?

3. blots
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   As a side note, how does one post in the advanced forum?

   This is what I ended up doing although I can't help but think there is a much better way to do this. Please, any comments welcome, abusive or otherwise ;)

   what this does is gets one post then modifies it to contain my content:

   add_action('init', 'show_item');
   
   function show_item() {
     $showme = $_GET['showme'];
     if ( !empty($showme) ){
        add_filter('the_content', 'replace_content');
        add_filter('the_title', 'replace_title');
        add_filter('post_limits', 'limit_1_post' );
        //addfilter([other filters to remove other stuff you dont want to display]);
        add_action('template_redirect', 'replace_template');
     }
   }
   
   function replace_content($text) {
     //do somthing to generate content with $_GET['showme']
     $mycontent = "My Dynamic Content";
     return $mycontent;
   } 
   
   function replace_title($text) {
     return "My Title";
   }
   
   function limit_1_post($limit) {
     return 'LIMIT 1';
   }
   
   function replace_template() {
     include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/page.php');
     exit;
   }

4. mike_L
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   I don't know... that seems to make sense to me.

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