Need help creating an options page for a plugin

  • viper007bond

    (@viper007bond)


    20 years, 10 months ago

    So I’ve been working on WeatherIcon a lot lately with one of the plugin’s original makers and my latest project for it is updating it to WP 1.5 standards.

    It had been before doing an add_options_page on itself and then a if (is_plugin()) { or whatever it is to display the configuration page.

    Since that is depreciated, I’m trying to switch it to using a function to display the options page and I cannot figure out for the life of me what I’m doing wrong.

    Here’s what I have currently: http://test.viper007bond.com/WeatherIcon.phps

    And the error I’m getting:

    Fatal error: Cannot redeclare weather_options_page() (previously declared in c:phpdevprivateprojectsnewblogwordpresswp-contentpluginsWeatherIconWeatherIcon.php:169) in c:phpdevprivateprojectsnewblogwordpresswp-contentpluginsWeatherIconWeatherIcon.php on line 168

    Ideas?

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  • skippy

    (@skippy)

    20 years, 10 months ago

    Have you read Writing a Plugin and the Plugin API documentation?

    See, particularly, the Adding Administration Panels section from the first link above.

    // This function displays the options page in the WP admin area
    if (! function_exists('weather_options_page')) {
    function weather_options_page() {
    ... weather options code here
    } // close function
    } // close if function_exists

    Thread Starter viper007bond

    (@viper007bond)

    20 years, 10 months ago

    I know how to do it. I even threw together a test plugin that makes a tab that displays “Test!” for it’s content to double check that I did and it worked fine:

    add_action('admin_menu', 'viper_add_options_page');

    function viper_add_options_page() {
    if (function_exists('add_options_page'))
    add_options_page("Viper's Page", "Viper's Tab", 5, __FILE__, 'viper_options_page');
    }

    function viper_options_page() {
    echo "Testing!!! :D";
    }

    My problem isn’t with how to do it, it’s with what I’m doing wrong in the above link. 😉

    jalenack

    (@jalenack)

    20 years, 10 months ago

    I experienced this before, and I worked around it by not using __FILE__. You can just use a unique string and you should be fine.

    add_options_page("Viper's Page", "Viper's Tab", 5, 'ViperTab', 'viper_options_page');

    Thread Starter viper007bond

    (@viper007bond)

    20 years, 10 months ago

    Going back to the old method for this current release. I’ll deal with in a few days when working on the next build. Hopefully then I won’t hate PHP/WordPress so much. 😛

    Thanks for all of your guys’ help. 🙂

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