Running PHP in Wordpress posts
July 2nd, 2004
To display photos from the gallery section of this site in posts, I use PHP to call a function that grabs the details from a database. Wordpress doesn’t natively allow you to do this due to the obvious potential security issues so I searched for a plugin to allow me to do it. I found Stevarino and also Pascal’s Hack, but I couldn’t get them to work (despite some help – big thanks Pascal!) so I just started from scratch with my own. Thanks to Stephen and Pascal for demonstrating how to apply filters to stuff in Wordpress – I still have much to learn about the workings of Wordpress. Spookily we came up with pretty damn similar code.
This is version 0.1, I can’t stress this enough 0.2 0.2.2, an early version – I developed it enough to get it working for my needs and then stopped. It hasn’t had any testing beyond that. In the winter, when I fancy using my computer more, I’ll try to improve it all. Not promising awesome support or anything, but feel free to leave comments and stuff as I do intend to maintain the code at some point. Obviously you should think about who has access to your blog and the code you’re going to be running when using this plugin.
Using Wordpress 1.2, copy this code to a file named “runphp.php” and upload it to your “wp-content/plugins/” directory, then enable it in the admin panel. Use <phpcode>echo "hello mum!";</phpcode> to run some php.
<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Run PHP
Version: 0.2.2
Plugin URI: http://mark.scottishclimbs.com/archives/2004/07/02/running-php-in-wordpress-posts/
Description: Allows PHP to run in posts by using custom HTML style tags
Author: Mark Somerville
Author URI: http://mark.scottishclimbs.com/
*/
/*
run_php
This function runs and outputs PHP code that exists within <phpcode></phpcode> tags.
*/
function run_php($data) {
$tag = "phpcode";
$taglength = strlen($tag);
//html_entity_decode doesn't work! These lines change ' and " instead. Maybe other entities needed?
$data = str_replace(array("‘", "’"), "'",$data);
$data = str_replace(array("”", "“"), '"', $data);
$data = str_replace("″", '"', $data);
$data = str_replace("′", "'", $data);
while($phpstart = strpos($data, "<".$tag.">")) {
$phpend = strpos($data, "</".$tag.">");
$phptrueend = $phpend + $taglenth + 3 + $taglength;
$before = substr($data, 0, $phpstart);
$after = substr($data, $phptrueend);
$phpcodelength = $phpend - ($phpstart+2+$taglength);
$phpcode = substr($data, $phpstart+2+$taglength, $phpcodelength);
//remove the <br /> and <p></p> tags that WP adds to the code
$phpcode = str_replace('<br />', ' ', $phpcode);
$phpcode = str_replace('<p>', '', $phpcode);
$phpcode = str_replace('</p>', '', $phpcode);
ob_start();
eval($phpcode);
$data = $before.ob_get_clean().$after;
}
return $data;
}
add_filter('the_content', 'run_php');
?>
Changelog
- 0.1
- Initial release, scrappy.
- 0.2
- Fixed problem that meant PHP could only be on one line.
- 0.2.1
- Fixed an HTML entity problem with ″ (really need to get html_entity_decode working!)
- 0.2.2
- Fixed another HTML entity problem with ′ (still really need to get html_entity_decode working!)
Problems with Textile or Markdown?
Jeff suggests that you try changing the last line to:add_filter('the_content', 'run_php', 5);
Dev note – I couldn’t get html_entity_decode to work at all and ended up just searching for single and double quotes. There are almost certainly some HTML entities that will screw things up. Has anyone had any luck with html_entity_decode?
Regarding html_entity_decode – a recent user contributed note (14/11/04) for html_entity_decode on the PHP documentation sheds a little light on the subject. The function doesn’t work with numeric encodings (which is the first type of error I encountered) and also doesn’t work with UTF-8 encoded text (which I use). I’m going to have a think about character sets and PHP versions to see what the best overall solution is.
102 Responses to “Running PHP in Wordpress posts”
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July 3rd, 2004 at 08:32 AM
Cool, I like what you’ve done. I’ve been meaning to convert the code to a plugin forever (this is one of my faves) but havn’t had the time.
html_entity_decodeis available in php 4.30 and above. I’ve found that a large number of wp users have older installs, so I try to keep it at about 4 and lower.And out of curiosity, why do you call it “Pascal’s hack?”
July 5th, 2004 at 01:30 PM
Hi Stephen. Think I’ve sussed out what’s happened!
A guy called Pascal developed his own hack based on your code (I think). My small brain got confused and thought that both bits of code were his :o. Oops, sorry.
I’ve changed the post so it hopefully makes more sense! Nice one on getting the hack going in the first place.
I can’t remember what was happening with
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August 17th, 2004 at 06:31 AM
hi i tried install this plugin but i got
Parse error: parse error in /home/pure/public_html/wp-content/plugins/run_php.php(33) : eval()’d code on line 2
any idea?
August 17th, 2004 at 11:44 AM
Hi there. There was a problem with spreading PHP code over more than one line. It was something I was going to fix but never got round to…
I’ve changed the code a bit, and it should be working now. Thanks for the kickstart! :)
September 3rd, 2004 at 02:34 AM
After enabling this plugin, whenever I edit a post, I get:
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at …/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/runphp.php:45) in …/wordpress/wp-admin/post.php on line 340
Yet the post seems to save, and shows up correctly on the webpage.
Ideas?
September 3rd, 2004 at 02:41 AM
I get that same error when logging out too.
September 3rd, 2004 at 06:21 PM
Hmm, that’s pretty strange – something is trying to send headers from post.php. Has this been modified in any way? Perhaps another plugin is conflicting?
September 6th, 2004 at 11:46 PM
I’ve managed to get the Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at …/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/runphp.php:45) in …/wordpress/wp-admin/post.php on line 340 error. By trying to call a function in another plugin. Say calling the wp_ozh_getCountryName(); function in the wp_ozg plugin.
Its a great addon though many thanks, i’m sure its going to be useful.
Regards, Shimirel
September 7th, 2004 at 03:08 PM
Thanks Shimirel, that could help a lot when I get round to looking at the plugin again (hopefully soon). Hope you find it useful somehow.
September 8th, 2004 at 12:03 AM
Mark, I used your exact code. I was running the Textile 2 plugin as well.
However, I’ve left WordPress for this project, so I don’t need it anymore. Thanks for your work, though.
September 9th, 2004 at 03:06 PM
To those getting the “Cannot send headers….” error. Make sure there is no whitespace after the closing ?>. This a common issue, and 99% of the time happens when copying from a webpage is involved. If you put your cursor at the end of the file, it should be immediatly after the closing ?>. If there is a space, or the cursor is on the next line below, then hit the backspace a few times.
TG
September 10th, 2004 at 11:42 PM
Yeah your spot on TechGnome I just came back to post a message saying the exact same thing. I found whitespaces at the end of Marks script and the one I was trying to call. Removed them and now I’ve got my random spell script to work yay ;)
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October 9th, 2004 at 11:09 AM
Hello, Mark I have installed the Run PHP plugin and found an error in my post like this:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected ‘< ’ in /home/kkk/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/run-php.php(39) : eval()’d code on line 1
I noticed that wordpress has changed following line in my post from: <phpcode>< ? phone_list() ?> to: <phpcode>< ? phone_list() ?></></phpcode>It seem that wordpress has added the </> and was not removed by the RunPhp code. Can you suggest how I can solve this problem ? Thank you
October 9th, 2004 at 11:36 AM
Although it doesn’t show up right on your comment, I got the code you posted in my e-mail alert.
I think the problem is that you have added PHP open and close tags within the [phpcode] tags. You don’t need to do this as the [phpcode] tags replace the open and close tags. Your code should run using something like:
[phpcode] phonelist(); [/phpcode]
:)
October 9th, 2004 at 09:21 PM
Mark Thanks for the pointer, I have corrected that, but I still get an error:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in /home/kcl/public_html/kkk/wp-content/plugins/run-php.php(38) : eval()’d code on line 1
The line 38 is : eval($phpcode); I do not see a $ in this line. Can you help ?
Thank you.
October 10th, 2004 at 11:23 AM
eval($phpcode); is the line that actually runs (evaluates) the PHP code, so any parse errors that you get there are a result of an error in the PHP between your [phpcode] tags. I’ve no doubt that there are a few wee problems with the plugin script that will sometimes mean you have parse errors in what looks like valid code though!
However, let’s just get some very simple PHP going, to make sure it all works as it should. After that you should be able to add in your code.
is about the simplest I can think of. Change the square brackets to pointey ones and let me know how it goes.
October 14th, 2004 at 10:21 AM
So I was messing around with your nifty script. At first it worked great, but I ran in to a bug of sorts. For some reason or another when I pass a variable that ends with a number things get weird.
like try <phpcode> callthisfunction(“sometext1”) </phpcode> When it tries to eval the close quotes have a funky ” mark and in html it says callthisfunction(“sometext1″);
What is going on?!
October 14th, 2004 at 10:26 AM
When I posted, it seems to have converted a bit of what I typed…
Like callthisfunction( ” s o m e t e x t 1 & P r i m e ; ) ; added spaces…hopefully it will print…
Parse error: parse error in wp-content/plugins/runphp.php(38) : eval()’d code on line 1
Email me if you want the exact output.
October 14th, 2004 at 02:10 PM
Jacob – this stems from my problem with getting html_entity_decode to work properly. Until I get off my arse and try to fix the problem properly, I suggest you use the new code that I have posted. Let’s call it version 0.2.1.
Let me know if that doesn’t work.
November 1st, 2004 at 03:07 PM
I’m a Wordpress newbie who has happily found your plugin.I’ve run the test code as stated in comment no. 18 ([phpcode]echo ‘[p]RunPHP is a buggy pile of poo![/p]’;[/phpcode]) and it worked perfectly. My other attempts result in a parse error:
“Parse error: parse error in …/plugins/runphp.php(39) : eval()’d code on line 1”
I’m trying to run the following php within my post (substituted square for pointy brackets here):
Any thoughts on how this can be fixed? I’ve tried
November 1st, 2004 at 03:09 PM
oops, hit the submit button ahead of schedule there. I meant to say ” I’ve tried both with and without the extra php brackets.”
Cheers, Colin
November 1st, 2004 at 04:25 PM
OK – the solution was easy – only had to identify the problem, which was spelled “HUMAN ERROR.” One little extra bracket that fatigue rendered invisible.
Thanks a million for this code. Without it, I really couldn’t have tweaked Wordpress to do what I need it to do.
best regards, Colin
November 1st, 2004 at 04:58 PM
Thanks, glad you’ve got it sorted and find it useful.
November 2nd, 2004 at 01:18 AM
Hi ya Mark
Just loaded this nifty plugin onto 1.2 and it’s working a treat so far…only loaded the date but even thats better than nothing eh :0)
I’m sure it will keep this :newbie: entertained for hours. Added to my ever growing list of plugins.
Its people like yourself who make wordpress so neat. Thanks a bunch.
November 3rd, 2004 at 12:21 AM
Thanks! This helped me build by stats page, worked just perfectly!
November 18th, 2004 at 08:43 PM
Hi Mark -
Great plugin! It’s allowed me to FINALLY accomplish what I wanted to do with my discount tools and hardware blog!!!!!
THANK YOU! When I have time, I’ll also update my blogging tips site to link to your code! It’s a MUST-HAVE!
November 18th, 2004 at 10:32 PM
by the way, the site I’m using your code on is my wordpress installation at http://www.sealectric.com/tools/
It allows me to run code from w/in my WordPress post so that the posts themselves are actually dynamic! I’m so excited. Thank you again SO MUCH for this plugin!
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December 4th, 2004 at 10:00 PM
The script doesn’t seem to be able to handle strings containgin numbers. If I do echo ‘test’, there’s no problem. If I do echo ‘234’ or echo ‘test2’, I get this error: Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in /home/ryan4321/public_html/webcommunicate/projects/wp-content/plugins/runphp.php(39) : eval()’d code on line 1
December 4th, 2004 at 10:06 PM
re: my post above, I’m running WP 1.2.1 and runphp 0.2.1.
December 5th, 2004 at 01:43 AM
Hi Ryan.
Hopefully this new version has sorted that problem out. :)
December 6th, 2004 at 10:30 PM
wow. very nice! it’s working great on my site. I’m using it to integrate a screenshots database with my blog. My screenshots database builds the PHP code for the screenshot, w/ url, caption and dimensions for thumbnail and large image, and I drop something like the following into my blog entry:
<phpcode>require (‘http://www.mysite.com/screenshots/insert.php?id=31’);</phpcode>December 8th, 2004 at 04:13 PM
well, just when I thought it was working… and it was indeed working for a few days, but now I get this error on my page:
Warning: Unknown(): php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known in /path/on/my/server/to/runphp.php(40) : eval()’d code on line 1
Warning: Unknown(http://www.webcommunicate.net/screenshots_pub/insert.php?id=34): failed to open stream: Success in /path/on/my/server/to/runphp.php(40) : eval()’d code on line 1
Fatal error: (null)(): Failed opening required ‘http://www.webcommunicate.net/screenshots_pub/insert.php?id=34’ (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /path/on/my/server/to/runphp.php(40) : eval()’d code on line 1
FYI this happened just after I added a new category in WP, then assigned an existing entry to that category, then tried to navigate to the entry through the new category link… that’s when the above error occurred.
December 8th, 2004 at 04:19 PM
update: The above mentioned error also occurs when I use my browser back arrow to return to a page that has a WP entry that uses runphp.php. It’s the same error message as above. This all appears to be intermittent
- sometimes the pages function perfectly well -which is perhaps more worrisome than if it happened every time. Also, sometimes my pages seem to take a long to open when I use runphp.php, but it’s hard to say whether that’s the fault of runphp or something else.December 8th, 2004 at 05:24 PM
are you aware that there’s a plugin by the same name that purports to do the same thing: http://www.nosq.com/technology/2004/10/runphp-wordpress-plugin/
December 9th, 2004 at 12:13 AM
That’s a pretty funky error, Ryan! I’m not sure what is causing it. I also cannot reproduce any long load times. As you say, perhaps the strangest thing is that the problem only occurs intermittently. Knowing that it was working for a few days at least tells us that something somewhere must have changed, but I’ve no idea what. Let us know how you get on with the problem.
I wasn’t aware of that other plugin, thanks for pointing it out.
Good luck!
December 28th, 2004 at 10:31 AM
I’ve noticed a small problem with this plugin; it’s interfering with the wptexturize function (wp-includes/functions-formatting.php) which converts single quotes and double quotes into the typographically-correct curly equivalent. When this plugin is activated, those quotes aren’t converted anymore, and this is true for every single post, not simply those that are using <phpcode> within them.
January 13th, 2005 at 03:30 PM
top plugin! :)
January 17th, 2005 at 05:27 PM fyi, the function ob_get_clean didn’t show up until php v4.3, so if you want to extend the backwards compatibility of your plugin, just replace the last two lines inside the while loop with:
$data = $before . ob_get_contents() . $after; ob_end_clean();January 19th, 2005 at 01:47 AM
Thanks Justin. I’ll incorporate that once I get round to re-coding it.
Keep the bugs coming… :)
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January 21st, 2005 at 12:44 AM
Awesome. Works like a charm.
January 29th, 2005 at 09:25 PM
This plugin can do some amazing things however I had to deactivate because it brought down my whole isp server!
I was using it for a simple “include” for bringing in parsed rss feeds.
The results were stunning. However somehow in the process I had a gig of error logs in two days! This in turn shut my site and since it was in my root, it also shut the whole server! (and my site is not that busy!!!)
I’ve dropped back to using iframe for the parsed rss. It looks crappy but I haven’t had any more problems.
January 31st, 2005 at 02:53 AM
Wonderful plugin. Other than problems with headers due to spaces, it works well. Also, the last line, when you add the function to the content, you should add another argument. It should read like this:
add_filter('the_content', 'run_php', 5);instead, so that it is not already processed by Markdown or Textile, messing up the quotes.
January 31st, 2005 at 03:48 PM
Does this plugin work OK with 1.5 (Jan 31st)?
February 7th, 2005 at 06:24 AM
Very cool, I was looking to run PHP in my Wordpress posts. Basically using it to populate a photo gallery. My php function simply reads a DIR I pass and then displays the photos. So in my WP post I’m able to call the function and pass the DIR to read now. Thanks!!!!!
One thing. When I look at my WP plug-ins admin
-There’s a bunch of text for this plugin. The others have 1 or 2 lines of text, but this one has a bunch of text expanding the table really big.Is that normal? Thx.
February 7th, 2005 at 09:37 PM
Roger – funky error, sorry!
Jeff – that line did some funny stuff to my PHP output – I’ve added it as a note.
Davin – no idea!
ODB – glad it’s working well for you, but that doesn’t sound too right. The text in that table should just come from the first few lines of the plugin code. Maybe try messing with them to see what happens.
February 8th, 2005 at 09:28 PM
The answer is no – it does not work with 1.5. It gives some sort of header error – probably not a big deal to fix, though.
February 11th, 2005 at 06:26 PM
Hi,
I successfully got this to work in 1.5.
There are two things to jook out for: 1. make sure you have a ; 2. the action nehds the have a high numbe, as in add_filter(‘the_content’, ‘run_php’, 1);
February 22nd, 2005 at 10:19 PM
Hi, thanks for the code? Will it work in Custom Fields? I tried adding a filter but that doesn’t seem to work…
February 25th, 2005 at 12:35 AM
Jess, I really don’t know. Sorry!
If you get a chance, let us know what you find out though.
March 5th, 2005 at 03:36 AM
How could I get this to php in post thing in Wordpress 1.5? Need to run php within posts.
March 5th, 2005 at 06:12 PM
The first time I followed the directions of the script author which resulted in a plugin that I could activate, but then failed at line 17. I read over the website several times, uninstalled the plug and started over.
Steps I took toward solving this problem:- Followed the author’s directions, again
- Used this alternative, but I changed the third parameter to a 1 for my system…dunno why, just decided to do it after reading his website.
original code in the author’s file
‘run_php’);[/php]
updated to
‘run_php’, 5);[/php]
looks like after
‘run_php’, 1);[/php]
- Realized none of these worked and so I hunted in recent memory for a solution. I remembered many problems pasting text and code from websites. I removed all stray white spaces and replaced all line breaks with fresh returns in Dreamweaver.
- On uploading the file after this revision to the interstitial spacing—success! Success in that it did not crash wordpress and I was able to activate the plugin.
- Tested with the simple [code]echo ‘runphp is poop’;[code] and it was a success.
Now it works nicely and I can show you things that exist in php function calls like this one:
Radical!
March 6th, 2005 at 01:51 AM
Hi I’m a newbie :( and I’m trying to use this plugin to insert my blog archive in a brand new page (wordpress 1.5).
This code:
<phpcode>< ?php wp_get_archives(‘type=monthly&format=other&after=‘); ?></></phpcode>
get me the following error:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected ‘<’ in /membri/videodrome/wp-content/plugins/runphp.php(40) : eval()’d code on line 1
What should I do? Please help!
March 6th, 2005 at 01:59 AM
Ops, the post I wrote doesn’t work properly… anyway I put the code “WP GET ARCHIVES…” between <phpcode> and </phpcode> but I get an error:
“Parse error: parse error, unexpected ‘<’ wp-content/plugins/runphp.php(40) : eval()’d code on line 1”
March 6th, 2005 at 02:00 AM
Sorry I don’t know how to post my code here in the right way…
March 8th, 2005 at 05:19 AM
ZoneKiller, I had the same problem with the extra ’ until I screwed around with the code as above. Also don’t forget to change your [ braces ] with < symbols >.
March 8th, 2005 at 05:20 AM
These guys < and > need to be used but don’t show up on the comment page…
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March 23rd, 2005 at 01:38 AM
if you add:
global $allowphp if($allowphp != 3) { // or some other weird number/phrase return; }at the beginning of your plugin, and then in your index.php (and/or other applicable pages) add:
global $allowphp $allowphp = 3 // code that cycles through posts $allowphp = 0;it allows you to use php in your posts but keeps it from being allowed in comments, which seems to be a security concern among the sites i’ve read that talk about implementing this. there might be a more elegant way of doing it that won’t involve more than just the plugin, but i’ve only been working with wp for a few days, so i’m not too sure.
now that i’m typing this up i suppose you can edit which html is allowed in comments, though, so i wonder if it’s even an issue!
anyway, thanks for the code, it worked in 1.5 for me as long as i didn’t try to edit/save it through the administration panel. i poooossibly had to change the last line to
add_filter(’the_content’, ‘run_php’, 1);
or some such.
anyway, if php comment usage is a problem hopefully this’ll help kids who stumble upon this in their search.
March 23rd, 2005 at 09:05 AM
AFAIK, the plugin doesn’t allow PHP in comments, it should just strip the tags (unless you have WordPress setup to allow <phpcode> tags, of course). Here’s a wee test:
<phpcode>echo ‘this is PHP’;</phpcode>If anyone can highlight a situation where it does allow them though, I’d be very interested.
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March 28th, 2005 at 06:51 PM
I installed this plugin and (I think) I did everything correctly… However, when I try out the suggested
[phpcode]echo "hello mum!";[/phpcode]it returns:Parse error: parse error, unexpected '&', expecting ',' or ';' in /home/radesign/public_html/words/wp-content/plugins/runphp.php(40) : eval()'d code on line 1WP 1.5… any ideas? This would be key to some stuff I want to be able to do with WP. Thanks!
March 28th, 2005 at 09:42 PM
I haven’t tried the plugin with WP 1.5, but it sounds like the encoding of the quotes isn’t working correctly.
Try using single quotes rather than double ones, then try commenting out some of the lines at the top that start: ”$data = str_replace”, they are the ones that turn the quotes into HTML entities.
When I was debugging it, I found it useful to check the source (with the plugin disabled) to see what WP was outputting.
Have fun :)
March 29th, 2005 at 07:40 PM
Hello!
Thanks for the plugin but I can’t get it running. I uploaded the stuff and activated runphp in admin-tools. But nothing happens! Look at my site and try the Archive or the Test pages in the sidebar. Doesn’t work!
Regards Dennis
April 15th, 2005 at 09:43 AM
i had problems bringing this to work under wp 1.5. i edited the specific line to “add_filter(’the_content’, ‘run_php’, 1);” but not i just get the following error:
Warning: call_user_func_array(): First argumented is expected to be a valid callback, ‘run_php’ was given in /www/blog/wp-includes/functions.php on line 882
dunno what to do. any ideas?
April 22nd, 2005 at 10:38 PM
This is an awesome plugin that I am using on my other website. There is one issue, and if someone has already solved it, I apologize… there were way to many comments to skim through. :)
I’m trying to run this: include (TEMPLATEPATH . ’/searchform.php’);
and this: wp_get_archives(‘type=monthly’);
to create an archives page.
I am getting these errors:
<b>Parse error</b>: parse error, unexpected '&' in <b>/home/spit/public_html/wp-content/plugins/runphp.php(33) : eval()'d code</b> on line <b>1</b>AND
<b>Parse error</b>: parse error, unexpected $, expecting T_VARIABLE or '$' in <b>/home/spit/public_html/wp-content/plugins/runphp.php(33) : eval()'d code</b> on line <b>1</b>Do you know of any way that I can fix this?
April 23rd, 2005 at 12:38 AM
Assuming TEMPLATEPATH is a variable of some sort, put a dollar sign directly in front of it to let PHP know that it’s a vairable that you’re talking about.
May 3rd, 2005 at 07:16 AM
I get these errors in admin panel
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/flik/public_html/users/bob/wp-content/plugins/runphp.php:47) in /home/flik/public_html/users/bob/wp-admin/admin.php on line 6
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/flik/public_html/users/bob/wp-content/plugins/runphp.php:47) in /home/flik/public_html/users/bob/wp-admin/admin.php on line 7
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/flik/public_html/users/bob/wp-content/plugins/runphp.php:47) in /home/flik/public_html/users/bob/wp-admin/admin.php on line 8
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/flik/public_html/users/bob/wp-content/plugins/runphp.php:47) in /home/flik/public_html/users/bob/wp-admin/admin.php on line 9
And these errors on my pages
Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cookie – headers already sent by (output started at /home/flik/public_html/users/bob/wp-content/plugins/runphp.php:47) in /home/flik/public_html/users/bob/wp-content/themes/classic/header.php on line 2
Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cache limiter – headers already sent (output started at /home/flik/public_html/users/bob/wp-content/plugins/runphp.php:47) in /home/flik/public_html/users/bob/wp-content/themes/classic/header.php on line 2
May 8th, 2005 at 01:04 AM
Hi,
I love your plugin!!! For some reason it’s not taking out the line breaks. Anyone else having this problem?
Kindly John
May 10th, 2005 at 12:19 PM
Damn I would like to get this to work. BUT Have the same problem as comment 71. I have tryied all the things described here but with no luck :-(
May 10th, 2005 at 12:22 PM
Have you checked there is no whitespace, as per comment 12? That seems to fix it in most cases.
May 10th, 2005 at 03:42 PM
I have Mark and I also have tried to disable all other plugins and everything else described on this post. I have wp 1.5 and want to make it work with the mc_show_stats plugin but with no luck .
This is my warnings;
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/sv_blog-nokdk/wp-content/plugins/RunPHP.php:46) in /home/sv_blog-nokdk/wp-admin/admin.php on line 10
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/sv_blog-nokdk/wp-content/plugins/RunPHP.php:46) in /home/sv_blog-nokdk/wp-admin/admin.php on line 11
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/sv_blog-nokdk/wp-content/plugins/RunPHP.php:46) in /home/sv_blog-nokdk/wp-admin/admin.php on line 12
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/sv_blog-nokdk/wp-content/plugins/RunPHP.php:46) in /home/sv_blog-nokdk/wp-admin/admin.php on line 13
May 10th, 2005 at 04:26 PM
Sorry Morten, I don’t know what to do :(
I’m not using 1.5, not sure if that makes a difference or not.
May 10th, 2005 at 04:32 PM
Huiiii :) its working
And dispite my early statement it WAS what you said Mark . the whitespace .
NOW I have to say ” Cool Script”
May 10th, 2005 at 04:35 PM
Woohoo! :D
May 15th, 2005 at 04:44 AM
This plugin is a thing of beauty. I was finally able to move my recommended books in Amazon Media Manager to a separate page in WordPress. Thanks for this!
May 24th, 2005 at 02:55 PM
Nice – I just installed it and tested it on a 1.5 and it run out of the box, no problems at all.
Exactly what I was looking for. Need to do some testing with more complicated php but I had to tell you. A great plugin.
Many thanks
May 26th, 2005 at 01:46 AM
I just came back to doublecheck because I had a problem with some of the php code I was trying to run.
It turned out that adding that third parameter to add_filter(‘the_content’, ‘run_php’, 1) solved the problem. I was getting a parse error but only with certain kinds of multiline php (one of which included a number at the end of the line). Now it runs just fine.
I am really really happy with this plugin. Matt.
By the way it’s WP 1.5.1 that it’s doing such a great job on.
May 26th, 2005 at 02:55 PM
The plug-in is working well on 1.5.1.1. I installed it without modification and used it immediately.
Thanks!
May 29th, 2005 at 04:53 AM
The numbers thing is broken again with WP 1.5. Tried two different systems, same problem. Most code runs fine, but as soon as you use a numerical argument the eval() fails.
I stared at the add_filter function awhile, but I really don’t have a good enough understanding of what it does, to fix it.
Any suggestions?
June 3rd, 2005 at 11:40 AM
I’m trying to use the plugin to grab the users IP number when they submit a form embedded into a WP page. It worked the first time, not it’s broken…and I have no idea why :)
The line from the form I’m trying is this:
When I save that, WP strips out the phpcode closing tag. As you’d expect when it does that the code doesn’t work :)
The example “hello mum” example code works fine on the page itself.</input>
June 3rd, 2005 at 11:43 AM
See?!? It striped out phpcode end tage in my example code!
June 9th, 2005 at 08:32 AM
Just installed this thing, and it works great! Thanks Mark.
June 16th, 2005 at 02:53 PM
Just installed it on WP 1.5, works great! Thank you Mark!
June 21st, 2005 at 11:24 AM
hi still have a problem,when runing my php,when i write a code like < ?php phpinfo();php>it display nothing it just give a blanckpage or when i try to write other codes it give the codes themself
June 21st, 2005 at 07:03 PM
A friend of mine and I discovered today that the plugin only seems to work if you have something in the post/page before the <phpcode> section. If you put
tags around your code, it works. If you just type in some text, even just a space, then your php code, it works. No idea what could be causing that, but just a warning for you folks who are having trouble with the php tags getting stripped and the post displaying the code without evaluating it.
I wrote up a post on my blog with a little more detail on what works and what doesn’t. Hopefully it’s helpful for those of you having some problems. :)
</phpcode>June 21st, 2005 at 07:08 PM
Lost the link in my previous comment, but click on the jena link below this one to get to the appropriate post.
I’ll note that I’m running WP 1.5.1.2, and aside from the aforementioned peculiarity, the plugin works great. Thanks so much for all your hard work. ;)
June 24th, 2005 at 07:10 PM
Im getting the same error as comment #65 I tried adding the dollar sign but it still doesnt work
July 10th, 2005 at 11:15 AM
I’m getting this error:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected ‘<’ in /home/aznews/public_html/wp-content/plugins/runphp.php(35) : eval()’d code on line 1
After glancing through the comments, it seems like you had fixed that issue with an update of the code. I’m running WP 1.5.1.3 and was calling get_archives in a page.
Any ideas? Thanks!
July 10th, 2005 at 11:18 AM
Whoops. Hope it works this time.
Here’s the code again:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected '< ' in /home/aznews/public_html/wp-content/plugins/runphp.php(35) : eval()'d code on line 1In glancing through the comments, it seemed like this error had been corrected by the new code. I’m running WP 1.5.1.3 and was calling get_archives in a page.
Any ideas? Thanks!
July 13th, 2005 at 01:40 PM
Hi. I got this kewel little plug in too. Mine works, but the bug I have is when I write a Page with PHP code in it, when I click Publish, I get a blank page. The page is saved and published and the PHP code is working when I go to view the results. But the blank page I get when I click Publish button is just annoying. You have a fix?
July 13th, 2005 at 01:48 PM
WP 1.5.1.3 BTW
July 25th, 2005 at 10:12 AM
Thanks for the Plugin Mark. I’m using it to display on my site an auto-generated list of all my Firefox extensions, themes and plugins (using the InfoLister extension). Very cool!
P
July 28th, 2005 at 03:57 AM
I installed the plugin and tried to make a page with
<phpcode>echo “hello mum!”;</phpcode>and it spits out
echo “hello mum!”;
Is there a way to fix it?
July 28th, 2005 at 04:04 AM
*i meant i put in
<phpcode>echo “hello mum!”;</phpcode>and it puts out
echo “hello mum!”
btw, I’m using Wordpress 1.5.1.1
July 28th, 2005 at 04:51 AM
nvrmind b4
but a new question arose…
I am having trouble running php commands that deal with the mySQL databases.
August 5th, 2005 at 05:30 PM
Thanks Mark. Took about 20 seconds to copy, paste, acivate and use. Thanks again.
August 17th, 2005 at 04:47 PM
How about of pages? Could you edit the code that it would work with pages and post.
August 17th, 2005 at 06:37 PM
How can i get the code not to skip a line?