XF 2.1 How do I embed a PHP script in a Xenforo page?

[Joe Blow]

I'm just about to upgrade to XF2.1 and I need to embed a PHP script in a Xenforo page.

I can't find any instructions or tutorial on how to do this.

Can anyone tell me how it is done or point me in the direction of information that tells me what to do?

Thanks for any help.

 

[Joe Blow]

Anyone?

 

[Joe Blow]

Hoping someone else out there has figured out how to do this.

 

[Kirby]

Please explain what "embed a PHP script" does mean (to you).

 

[arn]

I muddled my way through this before. I'm not the best person to answer. But hope this helps.

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Create an AddOn. Answer "No" to Does your add-on need a Setup file. Name it DIRECTORY/NAME. In my case, it's AHK/BrowseImages

I created a PHP file called "Browse.php" in that directory which lives at src/addons/AHK/BrowseImages

<?php
namespace AHK\BrowseImages;
class Browse
{
  public static function getHtml()
  {
    $output=file_get_contents("file.txt");
    return $output;
  }

}

On the Page in the TEMPLATE Html, I added this:

<xf:callback class="\AHK\BrowseImages\Browse" method="getHtml"></xf:callback>

and it read the file and outputted it onto a XF page.

It was by trial/error based on posts here. So it may be wrong in ways.

arn

 

[Joe Blow]

Please explain what "embed a PHP script" does mean (to you).

Sorry for the delay in replying but I didn't get a notification that there was a reply in this thread.

I have a small PHP script that outputs a basic table with data retrieved from a simple database.

I want this script to display this output in a Xenforo page.

I have it working on XF 1.5 using the Kotomi Generic Script Bridge but there doesn't appear to be anything like that for XF 2.1

 

[Joe Blow]

I muddled my way through this before. I'm not the best person to answer. But hope this helps.

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For some people, getting stuck straight into a project is the best way to learn, and the aim is that in the following sections you will learn how to build an add-on, from scratch. Be prepared; this isn't a simple 'Hello world' type demo. This is actually a fairly full featured demo add-on which...

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Create an AddOn. Answer "No" to Does your add-on need a Setup file. Name it DIRECTORY/NAME. In my case, it's AHK/BrowseImages

I created a PHP file called "Browse.php" in that directory which lives at src/addons/AHK/BrowseImages

<?php
namespace AHK\BrowseImages;
class Browse
{
  public static function getHtml()
  {
    $output=file_get_contents("file.txt");
    return $output;
  }

}

On the Page in the TEMPLATE Html, I added this:

<xf:callback class="\AHK\BrowseImages\Browse" method="getHtml"></xf:callback>

and it read the file and outputted it onto a XF page.

It was by trial/error based on posts here. So it may be wrong in ways.

arn

Thanks, I'll give this a try on the weekend and see what happens.

 

[Joe Blow]

I muddled my way through this before. I'm not the best person to answer. But hope this helps.

Let's build an add-on | XenForo

For some people, getting stuck straight into a project is the best way to learn, and the aim is that in the following sections you will learn how to build an add-on, from scratch. Be prepared; this isn't a simple 'Hello world' type demo. This is actually a fairly full featured demo add-on which...

xenforo.com

Create an AddOn. Answer "No" to Does your add-on need a Setup file. Name it DIRECTORY/NAME. In my case, it's AHK/BrowseImages

I created a PHP file called "Browse.php" in that directory which lives at src/addons/AHK/BrowseImages

<?php
namespace AHK\BrowseImages;
class Browse
{
  public static function getHtml()
  {
    $output=file_get_contents("file.txt");
    return $output;
  }

}

On the Page in the TEMPLATE Html, I added this:

<xf:callback class="\AHK\BrowseImages\Browse" method="getHtml"></xf:callback>

and it read the file and outputted it onto a XF page.

It was by trial/error based on posts here. So it may be wrong in ways.

arn

Hi, I tried this but it didn't quite work as expected. I see that your file is named file.txt. Is that because you're outputting a text file?

I'm trying to output a php file but unfortunately it just dumped the content of the file onto the page like this:



I feel like I'm getting close but something still isn't right. Wish I knew how to fix.

 

[arn]

That was just an example of a small amount of php.

Replace “ $output=file_get_contents("file.txt");” with your PHP.

it might as well have been

echo “hello world”;