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M66B
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Could you please post the error message?
I didn’t realize I had tried this plugin before but I just reinstalled it again. Same results so I came here for support and found my own post. (This time I’m checkmarking the ‘notify me of follow-up posts’)
This plugin sounds like a perfect solution for my needs, where I’d like to keep the php code out of the pages themselves because other, less-experienced editors could mess it up.
When I click the test button (and when I add the test shortcode on a page) I get the following message:
[php_test]=”
<b>Parse error</b>: syntax error, unexpected ‘<‘ in <b>/home/xxxmyaccountxxx/public_html/xxxmydomainxxx/wp-content/plugins/shortcode-exec-php/shortcode-exec-php-class.php(1069) : eval()’d code</b> on line <b>1</b>
”
Plugin Contributor
M66B
(@m66b)
This message means that there is a syntax error in your shortcode definition.
I can help you with this, but you’ll have to post the shortcode definition.
This is all straight out of the box. At first the shortcode said [test] but thought that may conflict with something so I changed it to [php_test]. In both cases it didn’t work.
As for the code being executed, it is exactly the default.
<?
<p style=”text-align: center;”>test</p>
?>
I haven’t touched any settings.
Plugin Contributor
M66B
(@m66b)
That is not the example code out of the box and it is indeed wrong.
Try it like this:
?>
<p style="text-align: center;">test</p>
<?php
Thanks for the help. All I see different is the ?> and <?php being reversed but I tried it anyway and go the same error code. So I then decided to change the code to be executed to nothing other than <b>test</b> and still got the same results. Must not be a problem with the php code trying to be executed by the shortcode.
`[test3]=”
<b>Parse error</b>: syntax error, unexpected $end in <b>/home/xxxxx/public_html/xxxxx.net/wp-content/plugins/shortcode-exec-php/shortcode-exec-php-class.php(1069) : eval()’d code</b> on line <b>1</b>
“‘
Plugin Contributor
M66B
(@m66b)
It is definitely a problem with the shortcode (because eval()’d code on line 1).
And <b>test</b> is not PHP but HTML, so you must use the closing PHP tag and after it the PHP opening tag again.
Try this to see that it works:
echo 'Test';
(no PHP opening and closing tags, because this is PHP code).
This plugin is not meant for HTML (although it is possible to a certain extend).
Hey, that one worked!!! Thanks!!!
So I’ll have to test later with the code I really want to use, but it seems that the <? and ?> are not necessary for the php code itself? (The default test code that was there did have those characters at the top and bottom so I assumed they needed to be there. If that’s not normal than I wonder how that happened on two different fresh install.)
And if my code has non-php elements in it, I suppose I should just go through the effort of changing it to php standards, right?
Thanks again.
Plugin Contributor
M66B
(@m66b)
So I’ll have to test later with the code I really want to use, but it seems that the <? and ?> are not necessary for the php code itself?
No, these are not necessary.
The default test code that was there did have those characters at the top and bottom so I assumed they needed to be there. If that’s not normal than I wonder how that happened on two different fresh install
The default test code does not contain PHP starting and ending tags.
The default test code is:
extract(shortcode_atts(array('arg' => 'default'), $atts));
echo "Hello world!" . PHP_EOL;
echo "Arg=" . $arg . PHP_EOL;
echo "Content=" . $content . PHP_EOL;
And if my code has non-php elements in it, I suppose I should just go through the effort of changing it to php standards, right?
Yes, or use PHP closing and opening tags for HTML code.
