PHP inside ezpages

[TecBrat]

MODERATOR COMMENT: Adding eval() to arbitrarily execute random PHP or other code in the manner suggested here opens your site up to security risks.
USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.

Not a Question, but I didn't know where else to post this.

I posted this in the infopages thread a while back. I have updated it to work with ezpages in 1.3.0

To allow PHP code to run inside a "page".

copy includes/templates/template_default/templates/tpl_page_default.php to
includes/templates/*your template*/templates/

Then edit the new copy as such
find between "<div></div>"

echo $var_pageDetails->fields['pages_html_text'];

and replace with:

$titlecheck=substr($var_pageDetails->fields[pages_title],0,9);
if ($titlecheck=="allowcode"){
eval(stripslashes($var_pageDetails->fields['pages_html_text']));}
else{echo $var_pageDetails->fields['pages_html_text']; }

Change "allocode" to whatever name you want your php code ezpages to have, or add more names or remove the if alltogether if you want. (dont forget to change ,0,9 to ,0,x where x is the length of your "allowcode" replacement string.

I hope this is helpful. (I notice that someone else was looking to use include in infopages or ezpages, That's exactly what I am doing. Apparently That person didn't dig deep enough in the other thread, it was 30+ pages long.)

[kuroi]

Thanks for this Techbrat. It looks interesting and potentially relevant to something I am about to do.

[Gerard]

And to think that I was about to tackle that little nightmare and along comes the solution

One question

dont forget to change ,0,9 to ,0,x where x is the length of your "allowcode" replacement string

Can this point be clarified since I am only new to the whole php experience.

Thx
Gerard

[Ajeh]

There is something down the pike for this that we have been fooling with for EZ-Pages to allow for an includes/require ...

Ideas of how you forsee using this are helpful to hear ...

[TecBrat]

And to think that I was about to tackle that little nightmare and along comes the solution

One question
"dont forget to change ,0,9 to ,0,x where x is the length of your 'allowcode' replacement string "
Can this point be clarified since I am only new to the whole php experience.

Thx
Gerard

I made it so that only certain page names will trigger this change. In case of the example it is allowcode. "allowcode" is 9 characters long. If I change that to "Form" then every form I create I could name Form1 or Form-1 or Form-Contact etc, then the forms will work. But you will need to change

$titlecheck=substr($var_pageDetails->fields[pages_title],0,9);
if ($titlecheck=="allowcode"){

to

$titlecheck=substr($var_pageDetails->fields[pages_title],0,4);
if ($titlecheck=="Form"){

Remember that "==" is a case sensitive evaluation.

I have used this to include dynamic content in an infopage (now ezpage), and to create a custom contact form with handler.

[TecBrat]

I think I forgot to mention,
With this setting, The ezpage with a title that begins with "allowcode", or "Form" in the second examle, will assume "<?" or one might say that PHP is already "on". If you want some HTML before your PHP code, start with "?>" Like

 
?>
<a href="http://www/zen-cart.com">Get Zenned</a>
<?
include ("some_great_file.php");
?>

otherwise, like this

include ("some_great_file.php");
?>
<a href="http://www/zen-cart.com">Get Zenned</a>

[brandtim]

MODERATOR COMMENT: Adding eval() to arbitrarily execute random PHP or other code in the manner suggested here opens your site up to security risks.
USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.

I definately needed this feature. Here's an even simpler version.

Replace this:

<div><?php echo $var_pageDetails->fields['pages_html_text']; ?></div>

with this:

<div><?php eval(stripslashes('?>' . $var_pageDetails->fields['pages_html_text'])); ?></div>

This way you don't have worry about php being 'on' in the ezpage - you can make the code of the page html with php inside it (a lot easier).

Tim

[TecBrat]

I definately needed this feature. Here's an even simpler version.
...
Tim

<div><?php eval(stripslashes('?>'.$var_pageDetails->fields['pages_html_text'])); ?></div>

Verified this works in 1.3.5

Thanks for the simplification Tim.
I am starting to really appreciate the concatenation operator!

[DrByte]

Be sure to thoroughly understand the security risks associated with using the eval() function.

[rambo]

I notice I can't input php with the default wysiwyg editor. It erases it and replaces it with a line break.

I'm wanting to replace ezpages with my own uploaded php pages to be wrapped by the site. Is there an easier way to do this than to have an include in the ezpage?