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1. matthewvanb
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I'm creating a calander plugin, and on the first line of one of my PHP pages, I declare the $wpdb global so I can use a select statment to grab the data I need from the database... for some reason it says that the $wpdb global is null...

   here's the code...
   

   <?php
   global $wpdb;
   var_dump($wpdb);
   ?>

   this declared on the very first line of the file... any suggestions?

2. matthewvanb
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   just for clarification, I figured this out because when I tried to use wpdb->prefix it wasn't returning the tables prefix into the select statement. That's when I tried using the var_dump($wpdb) to see what it would return, and it told me it was NULL..

3. rcaf
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   add the file wp-load.php,

   for example:

   require_once('../../wp-load.php');

4. rcaf
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   http://wordpress.org/support/topic/314470?replies=4

5. matthewvanb
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   you are a life saver! thanks.

   would you by chance know anything about creating "veiws"?

   a little explanation: like with the podcasting plugin, you place the "[podcast file]" code where you want the podcast file to be played....

   how do you create the [podcast file] code?

   I wanted the user to be able the type of calendar they wanted, and based off of their choices, create a [calendar view] code that would reflect there choice of options for that calander....

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