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Chrome
Newbie   Posts: 2 Registered: 1/7/2003 Status: Offline
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 posted on 3/2/2003 at 12:36 PM |
Well folks, it might not sound like much to some of the more experienced
folks in the pn world, but I finally got the API func's to work INSIDE of
PostWrap! The first caveat must be that I have no idea of the security
implications of how I got to this point, so perhaps a kindly mentor would
be willing to look through it all...
The first part I learned is that basically there is no Wrapper (not
PostWrap, not htmlpages, not blank.php, not sections, not ContentExpress)
program that can do this natively with PHP (ton's of bboards, believe me I
looked for weeks on this...). The closest I found was the "blank.php" file
that gave me some basic hints that the API was available regardless of
location or referer, just had to figure it out. Since it's now 4am and I
just figured it out, forgive me if I'm not putting together complete
sentances...
So, figuring I'd just go the brute force route under Phoenix w/ PostWrap, I
grabbed the admin.php file and stripped it down so as to be absolutely sure
of the API framework. I threw in one include, the PHP file I've been
trying to populate with pnUserGetVar variables and VIOLA!!! The damn thing
worked!! Now just so you know, I'm on pn0.7.2.3 (Phoenix) and have turned
global's on via PHP just to be compatible in hopes that that wasn't my
problem.
One of the other things that I've notived but can't seem to figure out, is
why I can call the originating script in the root dir, but if I attempt to
call any subdir it fails (could be just me not grasping how the hosting
platform I'm on is dealing with ref dirs, but even explicitly, it still
doesn't work unless in the home dir of PN). Willing to discuss this more
if you're interested...
So, back to the meat of the story...
quote:
<?php
// File: $Id: admin.php,v 1.4 2003/01/04 08:42:58 larsneo Exp $ $Name:
$
include 'includes/pnAPI.php';
pnInit();
include 'includes/legacy.php';
/* Allows Postnuke to work with register_globals set to off
* Patch for php 4.2.x or greater
*/
if ( function_exists('ini_get') ) {
$onoff = ini_get('register_globals');
} else {
$onoff = get_cfg_var('register_globals');
}
if ($onoff != 1) {
@extract($HTTP_SERVER_VARS, EXTR_SKIP);
@extract($HTTP_COOKIE_VARS, EXTR_SKIP);
@extract($HTTP_POST_FILES, EXTR_SKIP);
@extract($HTTP_POST_VARS, EXTR_SKIP);
@extract($HTTP_GET_VARS, EXTR_SKIP);
@extract($HTTP_ENV_VARS, EXTR_SKIP);
@extract($HTTP_SESSION_VARS, EXTR_SKIP);
}
include 'step1.php';
?>
is all I use to call the subordinate scripts (step1.php) and since they are
included the API functions are made available to them as well!!! Just so
you know, previously I've seen similiar postings and every attempt to make
them work failed. Seems that the extraction of the var's is significant
here, and again, I can't profess to being a great PHP or PN programmer, so
any insight as to why this method works and all others seem to fail would
be a nice help.
I'm assuming now that I must call every script explicitly with this mod'ed
framework (ie, an include statement).
Okay, that's enough for tonight, I'm back to coding a bit more then
sleep...if anyone is interested in pursuing this experience, let me
know...
Chrome! 
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shawn
Administrator   Posts: 4608 Registered: 10/7/2002 Status: Offline
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posted on 3/10/2003 at 07:07 PM |
Very cool... I'll look it over.
Thanks!
Shawn
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Switch17
Newbie  Posts: 6 Registered: 3/17/2003 Status: Offline
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posted on 3/17/2003 at 11:48 PM |
Very good news. I believe this may be exactly what I've been looking for
myself this past week. When you get the chance, I'm hoping maybe you can
explain this a little bit better for me, as i'm very new to php and
postnuke. I've got a nice menu system created by someone else that uses
variables as well that i've been trying to implement with postwrap as well
on content express.
My first question is this, what does your actual url look like, as its not
the actual file names.
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