running custom php scripts

[Fed]

hello guys
I've spent more than half an hour searching the forums for how to run custom php code inside a template but it seems I'm not able to find anything regarding this...

I obviously tried adding <?php myscripthere ?> in the template but...

how can I have my php code executed inside coppermine?

sorry for the "asked 1000 times" question but I couldn't find any thread discussing this

if it's useful I'm running cpg 1.4

[Sami]

If you want to run it on all pages try custom header or custom footer if you want it on index only try anycontent.php

[Joachim Müller]

Just for clarification: you can't have PHP in themes/yourtheme/template.html, no matter what you do. Do as Sami suggested, or come up with a custom token and then modify themes/yourtheme/theme.php as well. However, you'll need some coding skills to accomplish this, so you better go for one of the options Sami suggested.

[Fed]

Just for clarification: you can't have PHP in themes/yourtheme/template.html, no matter what you do. Do as Sami suggested, or come up with a custom token and then modify themes/yourtheme/theme.php as well. However, you'll need some coding skills to accomplish this, so you better go for one of the options Sami suggested.

I solved using a custom token
the themes.inc.php, in the function pageheader() I added my php code that stores the value in a variable named $i_t_user then added

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'{USERSONLINE}' => $i_t_user,
to the $template_vars array then put {USERSONLINE} in the template and it's working smooth
I'm not sure if this is what you meant

thanks guys

[Sami]

Never edit theme.inc.php , copy the function you want to change (pageheader() in your case) from themes/sample/theme.php to themes/your-theme/theme.php  instead and mod it the way you want to

[Fed]

Never edit theme.inc.php , copy the function you want to change (pageheader() in your case) from themes/sample/theme.php to themes/your-theme/theme.php  instead and mod it the way you want to

ah ok I didn't know theme.inc.php shouldn't be touched (I was sceptical on editing it because it might have been a problem at the time of upgrading to a newer version)
if I edit /mythere/theme.php, how does CPG know that should use the pageheader() in theme.php and not the one in theme.inc.php? is this a coppermine default behaviour?

thanks again

[Nibbler]

Your custom theme.php is loaded up first. Then themes.inc.php is loaded and defines any functions that are not already defined by your custom theme.