php include

Is it possible to include a php file in a document?

Quote from: banzai at Jun 27, 2005, 12:35 PM

Is it possible to include a php file in a document?

Sure you can.

1) Create a TV called MyFile
2) Inside the default value enter @EVAL include ’yourfile.php’;
3) Save the TV
4) Edit the document and add [*MyFile*] inside it’s content
5) Save document

That’s it!

Thank very much i’ll try it

..included file appears in the top of the page

Quote from: banzai at Jun 27, 2005, 01:07 PM

..included file appears in the top of the page

Change the @EVAL to :

@EVAL
ob_start();
include "yourfile.php";
$rt = ob_get_content();
ob_end_clean();
return $rt;

Hi, I want to include a php file that uses another database and I get an error stating a table it uses doesn’t exist, plus another error about myssql_free-result..even though the later works perfectly in the other program which is in a folder inside the modx(root) folder. Basically I’m trying to call up the minicart that works with the shopping cart(other program).

Any ideas are welcome.
Tracyjs

Maybe I’m misunderstanding you, but why not put the php code in a snippet and include a call to that snippet in the document?

Quote from: tracyjs at Jan 07, 2009, 11:35 PM

Hi, I want to include a php file that uses another database and I get an error stating a table it uses doesn’t exist, plus another error about myssql_free-result..even though the later works perfectly in the other program which is in a folder inside the modx(root) folder. Basically I’m trying to call up the minicart that works with the shopping cart(other program).

Typically this means that the include is hijacking the mysql connection that MODx is already using. The external script would have to be modified to create and explicitly use it’s own connection to the separate database without affecting the MODx connection. This would be accomplished by using mysql_connect with the optional parameter to create a new connection, and then passing that connection handle specifically to all subsequent mysql_ function calls.

Quote from: xwisdom at Jun 27, 2005, 02:47 PM

Quote from: banzai at Jun 27, 2005, 01:07 PM

..included file appears in the top of the page

Change the @EVAL to :

@EVAL
ob_start();
include "yourfile.php";
$rt = ob_get_content();
ob_end_clean();
return $rt;

I create a snippet with this code and as a result I’m getting.

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ’(’ in /<removed path>/manager/includes/document.parser.class.inc.php(769) : eval()’d code on line 2

Can it not be a snippet or have I missed something obvious?

You can’t use EVAL in a snippet, remove that line, the rest should be OK, if you need to use the $modx object put ’global $modx’ as the first line