Displaying form data in a post

  • mathechr

    (@mathechr)


    16 years, 7 months ago

    Starting out, I created a couple bear-bones Page templates. One served as a form (several lines of text input) and the other template pulls that data in order to echo it and populate the page. In WordPress, I created 2 pages, each one using one of the templates i created, and they work fine.

    Now, I want to do this same thing in posts (for easier addition of new) but it doesn’t work. Is PHP crippled in posts?

    The form is showing up fine in Post1, and the data is being sent to Post2 properly (it shows up in the url: post2?data1=X1&data2=Y… etc.) but the data isn’t being populated into the post itself.

    This is the code I’m using to pull and display the form data:

    <?php $word1 = $_GET['word1']; echo htmlspecialchars($word1, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8'); ?>

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  • jon

    (@adiant)

    16 years, 7 months ago

    PHP cannot be entered in Posts or Pages, though you can overcome that problem for Pages by coding PHP in the Page’s Template. It was a conscious decision by WordPress to avoid security issues.

    There are PHP plug-ins. I chose to build my own “infrastructure” using Custom Fields, though I don’t use Posts, only Pages.

    There is some discussion of this (why no PHP and the plug-ins) in the Codex.

    Thread Starter mathechr

    (@mathechr)

    16 years, 7 months ago

    Thanks for the info.

    I installed the Exec-PHP plugin, and it works like a dream.

    /cheers

    jon

    (@adiant)

    16 years, 7 months ago

    Just the usual warning: be sure that only people you trust can insert PHP into a Post. Or you’ll open yourself up for Hackers.

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