How to point "add_menu_page" to a file rather than function

  • moroshko

    (@moroshko)


    11 years, 8 months ago

    I added a new menu item for my plugin like this:

    add_menu_page(
  'Control Panel',
  'My Plugin',
  'manage_options',
  'control-panel',
  array($this, 'control_panel_page'),
  plugins_url('/images/menu_icon.png', __FILE__)
);
public function control_panel_page() {
  // My HTML goes here
}

    However, I feel uncomfortable with the fact that all my HTML resides in PHP function (“control_panel_page”).

    Is there an option/hack to point to HTML file rather than PHP function?

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  • s_ha_dum

    (@apljdi)

    11 years, 8 months ago

    However, I feel uncomfortable with the fact that all my HTML resides in PHP function (“control_panel_page”).

    Why are you uncomfortable with that? A huge percentage of your site’s HTML is in some PHP function or another. That is a big part of the “why” of using PHP.

    No, you cannot point that to a file. It needs to be a callback function. You can extract your code to a file and then do something like:

    control_panel_page() {
    include('control_panel_file.php');
}

    But there is no reason to do that unless you think it makes the code easier to maintain, which it does, sometimes, with large and complex pages.

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