Help: How to use weblog entries in a PHP Include file

#1 / Sep 14, 2007 2:55pm
otane
5 posts
Do I need to do anything special to use an include file which contains weblog entries?

Here’s my draft page:

Linky

You can see the section “Latest Forum Posts” where the include fails.

Here’s the related code from the include:
```
<div id="sidebar_subcat">
  <h1>Latest Forum Posts</h1>
    <ul>
        {exp:weblog:entries weblog="membership_info"}                   
        <li><a href="http://{url_title_path=membership_info}">{title}</a></li>
        {/exp:weblog:entries}
    </ul>
</div>
```
Thanks in advance for your feedback!
#2 / Sep 14, 2007 4:55pm

grantmx
1439 posts

Did you turn on PHP for the template your include is sitting in?

#3 / Sep 14, 2007 6:31pm

otane

5 posts

Thanks for the reply. Yes. Where I don’t use an include file, the weblog entries are displayed correctly.

<?php session_start(); ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>BudoMembership.com - Martial Arts, MMA, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu</title>
<link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' media='all' href='{stylesheet=budo_membership/site}' />
</head>

<body>
<div id="Container">
    <?php include("http://www.budomembership.com/includes/header.inc.php"); ?>
    <?php include("http://www.budomembership.com/includes/menu.inc.php"); ?>
    <?php include("http://www.budomembership.com/includes/h_banner.inc.php"); ?>
    <div id="wrapper">
    <?php include("http://www.budomembership.com/includes/h_sidebar.inc.php"); ?>    
    <div id="h_centerbar">
        <h1>News</h1>
        <div class="news">
            {exp:weblog:entries weblog="budo_news"} 
            <h2 class="c_bar_news_h2"> {title}  </h2>
                         {summary} 
                         <a href="http://{permalink=">more</a> 
                {/exp:weblog:entries} 
        </div>
    </div>
    <div id="h_sidebar2">
      <h1>Videos</h1>
      <div id="videos">
            {exp:weblog:entries weblog="budo_sample_videos"} 
    <div>            
        <h2> {title}  </h2>
<p>            by {video_author} <br />
            » <a href="http://{permalink=">view</a><br />
    </div><br />
                  {/exp:weblog:entries} <br />
      </div><br />
    </div></p>

<p> </div>      <br />
    <?php include("http://www.budomembership.com/includes/footer.inc.php"); ?>  <br />
</div></p>

<p></body><br />
</html>

#4 / Sep 14, 2007 7:07pm
grantmx
1439 posts
I think my question should have been, is your include sitting in an EE template? Because it looks like its not.

Instead of putting that include with your external PHP file, place it in a template and embed it like this:
```
{embed="template_group/template"}
```
I believe its how EE parses the code if its not within the EE system.
#5 / Sep 15, 2007 9:01am

otane
5 posts

That did it! Thank you very much!
#6 / Sep 15, 2007 9:16am

grantmx
1439 posts

Cool beans man. Glad it worked.

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