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I enabled php in all my templates so that I could use a ratings system plugin (which works fine if I use it in a separate index.php test page that is not an EE template). To get the plugin to work, I have to add <?php require(‘_plugin.php’); ?> at the top of the page and then <?php echo function(); ?> in the part of the page that I want to execute the plugin function.

For some reason, when I do this in an EE template, the template loses all CSS style as well as the {embed} function. This happens whether I run php on input or output. Any ideas?

Without actually seeing the page, it’s hard to troubleshoot. Do you have a link we can look at?

Which version/build of EE are you using?

build: 20070512
version: 1.5.2 (I would really like to avoid upgrading as I do not yet have a good handle on all I’ve done so far)

Here is what the page looks like without the php function (though the <?php require… is at the top of the template code: http://www.thedailyslant.com/index.php/site/comments/self_doubt_hypocrisy_and_the_wests_demise/

Here’s what the page looks like when I put a <?php function… into the template to draw from the required file and js: http://www.thedailyslant.com/index.php/site/test/self_doubt_hypocrisy_and_the_wests_demise/

I suspect you need the full path in that require.  And it looks like the first embeds aren’t getting parsed in the broken page- thus no styling etc.  If I had to guess, I’d say you’re throwing errors that we can’t see.  Do you have ‘Show php errors to superadmins’ set in ‘Admin- System Prefs- Output and Debug’?  If so, do you see any errors?  Can do a quick test on an empty template:

<?php
$dog = 'booter'
echo $dog;
?>

With php parsing on, you should see an error message rather than a blank template.