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Folks,

I would like to be able to call PHP functions in a static page, and am wondering if this would be easy to hack, and if so where I should concentrate my efforts. I am thinking I could use [call] [/call] tags with the function in between, and when the page gets parsed away we go.

The reason I want to use this is that in many spots on my site I have tables listing things like for example varieties of hops. Rather than update the page manually every time I want to add hop varieties, I'd much rather just poke them into the DB and away we go!

thanks,
-Alan the Beer Geek

In other words: You would like to use PHP in static pages. So you need Tom's version of that plugin.

bye, Dirk

Thanks, but I find that kind of clunky. I'm almost done of my hack to allow you to put [call]FunctionName[/call] blocks anywhere you want within staticpages to have that function called and the return value of it inserted inline. It's actually only about 10 lines of code or so (you really PHP hackers could probably do it in 5 ;-)) Now I just have to figure out where exactly to call my function "ParseForFunctionCalls". It looks to me like it should go right before this comment in index.php // Check for type (ie html or php) Which in my 1.3.6 is line 112. It's getting late so I may not finish tonight, but should have it done tomorrow. cheers, -Alan