sidebar text/html widget does not allow php include

  • chuckpeters

    (@chuckpeters)


    16 years, 5 months ago

    On the right sidebar of http://starryskies.net/ I am trying to have a “More News” list of stories. Prior to the widgets thing I coded it in the sidebar.php using something like get_posts(‘numberposts=20&offset=20’);.

    Now I have been trying to include,
    http://starryskies.net/headlines-w-20-offest-output.php, the stories with a text/html widget using the following code.

      <?php include ($_SERVER[‘DOCUMENT_ROOT’].’/headlines-w-20-offest-output.php); ?>

    I haven’t found any documentation saying this why it doesn’t work… I was planning on running this script via cron because it looks like it takes 1.5-2 seconds to run this get_posts script and that would certainly slow things down if it ran every time the sidebar is displayed.

    How can I get this More News list to work in the sidebar?

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  • s_ha_dum

    (@apljdi)

    16 years, 5 months ago

    So far as I know WP has never allowed executable PHP in a text widget. You can create a widget and run all the PHP you want though, or run something like PHPExec.

    Maybe its just me but I don’t think that query should be taking 1.5 seconds. I’ve done much more complicated stuff much quicker than that even on my intentionally slow local server.

    Thread Starter chuckpeters

    (@chuckpeters)

    16 years, 5 months ago

    Well one of these days I’ll research how to do a widget… Writing a widget seem like too much work for this. Someone must have done a widget that would work for this. Searching for one has just been a waste of time. Anyone know of one?

    For the time being I did the old thing of modifying sidebar.php, thus it will get blown away next wordpress update.

    $ diff -u sidebar.php sidebar.php-2.9
--- sidebar.php 2010-01-03 05:14:29.923688368 -0500
+++ sidebar.php-2.9     2009-12-30 05:04:03.699148551 -0500
@@ -79,10 +79,5 @@

                        <?php endif; ?>
                </ul>
-
-                        <h2>More News</h2>
-                                <ul>
-                                <?php include ($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/headlines-w-20-offest-output.php'); ?>
-                                </ul>
-
        </div>
    s_ha_dum

    (@apljdi)

    16 years, 5 months ago

    Widgets are actually very easy in basic structure. You should look into it. Here is a shell I posted for someone else.

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