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Greetings All!

I have a simple php page here:
http://www.volume4.com/japarker/about_u ... tent=about

What is the simplest way to embed serendipity into this 'template'? I have searched the forum and found some direction but none that really addresses my situation(I might have missed something).

Any help or pointers to a tutorial/how-to would be extremely appreciated. Thank you!

1. Either use an iframe to embed the s9y content into that content block, and edit your s9y template so that it does not print the "serendipity_banner" information in index.tpl

2. Or you search the forum and the s9y documentation for "embed", there have been many threads about the issue of embedding a script with the s9y api and using output buffering:
http://www.s9y.org/index.php?node=55
http://www.s9y.org/forums/viewtopic.php ... ed+obstart,
http://www.s9y.org/forums/viewtopic.php ... ed+obstart
http://www.s9y.org/forums/viewtopic.php ... ed+obstart
http://www.s9y.org/forums/viewtopic.php ... ed+obstart
http://www.s9y.org/forums/viewtopic.php ... ed+obstart
http://www.s9y.org/forums/viewtopic.php ... ed+obstart

Best regards,
Garvin

Garvin

First thing, does Serendipity 0.8.4 work with PHP5? I have gotten it tto work standalone so I guess the answer is yes.

Now my problem is as follows:
1) I have a directory structure as follows:
* root
* newsforum (aka serendipity)
2) Within newsforum I have both the wrapper.php and content.php files.
3) In wrapper I have:
<?php
// Let serendipity generate our content:
ob_start();
require 'index.php';
$blog_data = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
require 'content.php';
?>
4) Inside my content.php I have: <?php echo $blog_data ?>
5) I have serendipity's Index File set to wrapper.php
6) Here is where the difference to the other come in:
When I link to http://localhost/japarker/newsforum/wrapper.php I get a blank screen. Absolutely nothing Even when selecting view source the source page is empty.

Any ideas? I am running on WindowsXP, Apache and PHP 5.0.3


Thanks a million!

First off, PHP5 compatibility should be ensured with all s9y releases, yes.

A blank page like yours usually happens when PHP coredumps or the apache process dies. Have you looked at access/error logs and looked for terminating childs? Try to check if the PHP errorlevel is high enough to report all errors?

Your setup of the files/embed machnism basically sounds correct!

Regards,
Garvin

Thanks Garvin. Got it! I will post what I have done on my website and place a link to it here on the message board.

Just a side note: my s9y install was on PHP5 from day one and had no
problems whatsoever. Just an empirical evidence to throw in...