castus

Whenever I try to set up the code as shown, the PHP fails and nothing is outputted.

I tried putting in echo ‘test’; throughout the code to see where it stops. It stopped right after require(‘/news/wp-blog-header.php’);. I changed this to include rather than require and the php got to the next line, but failed again at get_header();

I have made a fresh php file and only have the code on the create a static page in the php file. But it doesn’t seem to be working.

My wp install is in /news/ and here is my code so far (all i want it a list of posts)

<?php
define(‘WP_USE_THEMES’, false);
include(‘/news/wp-blog-header.php’);
// get_header();
?>
<div id=”content” class=”narrowcolumn”>
<?php
# Here starts Mini Loop trick: You can use this code, but _at your own risk_
# If you want to improve this code, you’re welcome 😉
$how_many=7; //How many posts do you want to show
?>
<ul class=”whats-new”>
<?
$news=$wpdb->get_results(“SELECT ID,post_title FROM $wpdb->posts
WHERE ‘post_type’=\”post\” AND ‘post_status’= \”publish\” ORDER BY ‘ID’ DESC LIMIT “.$how_many);
foreach($news as $np){
printf (“<.li><.a href=\”/news/index.php?p=%s\”>%s</.a></.li>”, $np->ID,$np->post_title);
}
?>

</div>