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1. haydenm92
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   I'm storing a value into a variable I've created called $mov_sub. I'm using the Exec-PHP plugin to put PHP into posts. This is the PHP I've got in my post:

   <?php mov_sub = "123"; ?>

   Then I've got a file included using PHP in my header.php file. The source code for the included file is along the lines of:

   <?php
   
   if(is_single( array( 1079, 1088 ) ) )
   
   if(isset($mov_sub)) {
   	$sid = "&sid=$mov_sub";
   }
   else {
   	$sid = "&sid=";
   }
   	echo "$sid";
   }
   ?>

   It's only echoing &sid, not &sid=123 like it should be doing. I tested this outside of WordPress and it works fine. I thought maybe it wasn't working because WordPress uses a function to create the post content called the_content() and I think functions only allow local variables unless you declare a global variable. So I edited the post-template.php file in wp-includes where the_content() function is located and added:

   global $mov_sub;

   but that didn't work either. I'm really new to PHP and have been struggling with this for a few hours now. Does anyone know why it's not working?

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