dynamic content in template

jawbreaker · December 15, 2006, 10:45:01 AM

i want to display a rss feed of wordpress posts on my cpg site. i already have a working php rss script. i have added it to anycontent.php and confirmed that it works...

my cpg theme (andreas09) is a 3 column layout (sidebar|content|sidebar). i want to display the feed in the right sidebar. i know that i cannot add the php code to template.html. so how do i do this? i would like to be able to just add a tag like {RSS_FEED} where i want the feed displayed. but i have no idea how to do this.

can anyone offer some suggestions?

Gizmo · December 15, 2006, 01:55:40 PM

You can modify the custom include code to suit your needs.

Copy and paste this code into your theme.php file at the end before the ?>.

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/**
 * cpg_get_custom_include_2()
 *
 * @param string $path
 * @return
 **/
function cpg_get_custom_include_2()
{
    global $CONFIG;
    $path2 = 'rss.php'; // path to file from root
    $return = '';

    // check if the include file exists
    if (!file_exists($path2))
    {
        return $return;
    }
    ob_start();
    include($path2);
    $return = ob_get_contents();
    ob_end_clean();
    // crude sub-routine to remove the most basic "no-no" stuff from possible includes
    // could need improvement
    $return = str_replace('<html>', '', $return);
    $return = str_replace('<head>', '', $return);
    $return = str_replace('<body>', '', $return);
    $return = str_replace('</html>', '', $return);
    $return = str_replace('</head>', '', $return);
    $return = str_replace('</body>', '', $return);
    return $return;
}

Edit the path to your rss.php file in this line of the above code:

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$path2 = 'rss.php'; // path to file from root

If you don't have function pageheader($section, $meta = '') in your theme.php, copy and paste it from the sample theme.php file. Create a new variable under $template_vars to hold the new custom include function such as

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'{RSS_FEED}' => cpg_get_custom_include_2(),

Your final pageheader function will look like this:

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// Function for writing a pageheader
function pageheader($section, $meta = '')
{
    global $CONFIG, $THEME_DIR;
    global $template_header, $lang_charset, $lang_text_dir;

    $custom_header = cpg_get_custom_include($CONFIG['custom_header_path']);

        $charset = ($CONFIG['charset'] == 'language file') ? $lang_charset : $CONFIG['charset'];

    header('P3P: CP="CAO DSP COR CURa ADMa DEVa OUR IND PHY ONL UNI COM NAV INT DEM PRE"');
        header("Content-Type: text/html; charset=$charset");
    user_save_profile();

    $template_vars = array('{LANG_DIR}' => $lang_text_dir,
        '{TITLE}' => $CONFIG['gallery_name'] . ' - ' . strip_tags(bb_decode($section)),
        '{CHARSET}' => $charset,
        '{META}' => $meta,
        '{GAL_NAME}' => $CONFIG['gallery_name'],
        '{GAL_DESCRIPTION}' => $CONFIG['gallery_description'],
        '{SYS_MENU}' => theme_main_menu('sys_menu'),
        '{SUB_MENU}' => theme_main_menu('sub_menu'),
        '{ADMIN_MENU}' => theme_admin_mode_menu(),
        '{CUSTOM_HEADER}' => $custom_header,
        '{RSS_FEED}' => cpg_get_custom_include_2(),
        );

    echo template_eval($template_header, $template_vars);
}

Place {RSS_FEED} in your template where you want it to display the feed and I'm assuming this tag will go above the {GALLERY} tag but if not, use function pagefooter().

jawbreaker · December 16, 2006, 09:16:14 AM

thank you. i was able to make the changes you suggest. and it is reading the rss script. i'm still having trouble getting my code to run, but i think i just need to prepare it better for this method.

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