PHP code in new created sidebox

[rauldan2005]

Hello all,
Firstly let me say a big "HELLO" to everyone and let me show my consideration for this amazyng e-commerce called ZENCART.
I have been using Zencart for some time now and wanted to customize a little.
Basicall I have created a new sidebox and want to show some links in it.
Everyhting is OK, the sidebox shows up and everything but I cant get php code to be runned in it.
I want to set some variables and according to that variables to show various links but when I put my php code in content.=' <?php ...php-code... ?>'; it simply doesnt run.
Has anybody tried this ?

[stevesh]

How did you create the sidebox ? Have you tried the Blank Sidebox mod which will run PHP ?

[rauldan2005]

Hello,
Thank you for your reply,
I have just installed the Blank Box.
Entered my php test code and still doesnt show up.

See bellow I have tested with a simple php echo code but nothing.
<?php
/**
* blank sidebox - allows a blank sidebox to be added to your site
*
* @package templateSystem
* @copyright 2007 Kuroi Web Design
* @copyright Portions Copyright 2003-2007 Zen Cart Development Team
* @license http://www.zen-cart.com/license/2_0.txt GNU Public License V2.0
* @version $Id: blank_sidebox.php 2007-05-26 kuroi $
*/

$content = '';
$content .= '<div id="' . str_replace('_', '-', $box_id . 'Content') . '" class="sideBoxContent">';

// Replace the text and HTML tags between the apostophes on lines 19 and 20.
// Use as many or as few lines using this model as you need for your custom content.
// If you have a multilingual site define your text in the languages/YOUR_LANGUAGE/extra_definitions/blank_sidebox_defines.php and include it as

shown in line 19.
// If your site is monolingual, you can put the text right here as shown on line 20 (and nobody will know!)
$content .= '<p>' . TEXT_BLANK_SIDEBOX . '</p>';
$content .= '<?php echo="Text should be visible" ?>';

$content .= '</div>';
?>

[swguy]

Change this:

$content .= '<?php echo="Text should be visible" ?>';

to this:

$content .= "Text should be visible";

[rauldan2005]

Hello,
The "Text should be visible" was just for an example.
I want ro use php because I need to access some variables.
Ig I want to echo the value of variable $test for example I will need to enter <?php echo $test ?> but this doesnt work.
Is there a reason for not executing the php code ?
If I view my source code of page where the sidebox is enabled I see exactly <?php echo $test ?> but this shouldnt be there, the php code should be executed but somethign stops it, this is what I guess.
Anybody any clue on this ?

[swguy]

You're already in PHP. You don't need the beginning and end tags. That's your problem.