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I want to put some PHP and HTML code in a plugin that will fetch the newest images from my coppermine album.

So basically, I want to make a custom plugin.

Will the html nugget work? How bout gutting a pre-existing plugin and replacing it with my own code?

Can someone tell me how to approach this?

Hi!

The HTML nugget is not for PHP code. You'll need to create your own plugin!

However, there is already a "Media sidebar" plugin that can output plugins from a gallery installation. Checkout serendipity_plugin_imagesidebar (on spartacus), this already has a coppermine_sidebar.php file that you might want to modify.

Regards,
Garvin

Hi!

May I add a related question?!

In this Page: http://www.shopanbieter.de/news/index.php

I would like to 'extract' the code parts of the main menue (top) as well as of the newsletter-box (right) into separate text-files as both are elements of the whole site and should be maintained in a central file (e.g. mainmenue.inc)

So I need to make something like this:
<? include('include/common_navi.php');?>

Only of course, this doesn't work. So do I really need to create plugins for this simple task? Isn't there some smarty-something that does a simple include or so?

Thanks for your hints (I did not really understand the plugin-concept as described here: http://www.s9y.org/78.html#A4, I'm more in HTML and only very very basic PHP, like 'include' ;-((

Nicola

You could use the smarty include function which is identical to the php version, for example {include file="file name"} where 'file name' is the .inc, or .tpl file

Hi!

Check the "include_php" command from smarty. First you need to disable smarty security in your template's config.inc.php file:
to be able to use that inside your .tpl files.

Regards,
Garvin

Hi to both of you!

garvinhicking wrote:Hi!
Check the "include_php" command from smarty. First you need to disable smarty security in your template's config.inc.php file:

I read about that at the mentioned page. And dismissed this option
because I fear, that this means that ma project then be somehow
'insecure'... Is it?

Greetings
Nicola

Hi!

Well, it's the only way. If you want to include a foreign piece of code (which your header/footer is), you can only do it that way, or not include it at all.

Regards,
Garvin

Hi!

garvinhicking wrote: in your template's config.inc.php file:

Seems, I'm to dumb or to blind ;-( Where do I find this file? It's
NOT in _my_ Template-Folder (nor in one of the others like "default",
as I can see). Nor can I find it somewhere else. Not a
"config.inc.php", nor a
"config.inc.php.file" (as written on http://www.s9y.org/78.html#A4,
but that's a mistake, is it? Just wanted to be sure about the name...)

Should I create such a file? Inside my Template-Folder and/or
any template folders, I've have (I use an nother template-style
for one special cathegory)?

TIA
Nicola

Hi!

This file might not exist for your template. You can create the file, if it's not there.

Regards,
Garvin

[quote="garvinhicking"]This file might not exist for your template. You can create the file, if it's not there./quote]

Thanks - works very well!

Regards
Nicola

Nicola wrote: Thanks - works very well!

Just, that it breaks the RSS-Feed:

XML-Verarbeitungsfehler: XML-Deklaration nicht am Beginn von externer Entität
Adresse: http://www.shopanbieter.de/news/feeds/index.rss2
Zeile Nr. 1, Spalte 2: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
-^
http://www.shopanbieter.de/news/feeds/index.rss2

How does the 'insecure-Mode' affect the RSS-Feeds? Can I have
my includes AND a proper RSS-Feed?

As we _need_ the RSS-Feeds, I will have to return to old
Version very soon, so if You want to have a look, please
hurry ;-(

Greetings
Nicola

Hi!

Ok, what it does is this:

RSS-File 'normal' (=secure mode):
-----------------------------------------------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

<rss version="2.0"
xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
xmlns:admin="http://webns.net/mvcb/"
xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
-----------------------------------------------

RSS File with "insecure-mode":
-----------------------------------------------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

<rss version="2.0"
xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
xmlns:admin="http://webns.net/mvcb/"
xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
-----------------------------------------------

You see: It's a space that causes the problems...
Any idea, where this space comes from?
And - more important, how we get rid of it?

Thanks
Nicola

Mist. You don't see the space ;-(

Believe me, it's here:

RSS File with "insecure-mode":
-----------------------------------------------
_<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

<rss version="2.0"
xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
xmlns:admin="http://webns.net/mvcb/"
xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
-----------------------------------------------

Hi!

Make sure you don't have any spaces in your config.inc.php file - it comes from there.

regards,
Garvin

garvinhicking wrote:Make sure you don't have any spaces in your config.inc.php file - it comes from there.

true, there it was. *SIGH*

THANKS!
Nicola