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.

[rauldan2005]

OK, eliminated the php start and end,
For a quick test I have declared a variable and tried to echo:
$content .= '
$test="test";
echo $test;';
Just to mention I have tried this already yesterday, but this give the text "$test="test"; echo $test;" in my sidebox. Its just that php isnt executed.

[swguy]

This is what you want:

$test = "A test string ABCDE";
$content .= $test;

[rauldan2005]

YES, YES, YES, YES
This is what exactly what I wanted.
I never would have thought to lose the ' ' from content.=' '
This worked like a charm
Thank you very much.

[DivaVocals]

This is what you want:

$test = "A test string ABCDE";
$content .= $test;

I really hate to resurrect such an old post, but I cannot find a support thread for the Blank Sidebox module.. After reading through every possible "Blank Sidebox" post this is the ONLY one that comes CLOSE to what I am trying to do..

Trying to add the sign-up form for my client's mailing list to his store.. This code works on a defined page:

<?php
echo do_shortcode('[wysija_form id="1"]');
?>

This code does NOT work using the Editable Sidebox module (Editable Sidebox parses the PHP code effectively disabling it). So I'm now trying to figure out how to work this using the Blank Sidebox module.. Can any kind hearted person help me sort out how to add this to the Blank Sidebox??

I've tried:

$content .= echo do_shortcode('[wysija_form id="1"]');

AND

$content .= do_shortcode('[wysija_form id="1"]');

Neither worked