WordPress and global.php

Anyone have any experience with WordPress plugins? I'm trying like crazy to include the global.php file from vB into a plugin so I can do some conditional stuff within my posts but I always tend to get a fatal error any time i use require() or require_once()

I was hoping it would be as ease as:

PHP Code:

$vwd = '/path/to/forums';
$cwd = getcwd();
chdir($vwd);
//always fails out on the next line.
require_once('./global.php');
chdir($cwd); 


conditionals, like template conditionals?

including global.php into wordpress won't help you there.

wordpress has it's own template engine.


that said, are you sure you're in the right spot?

try

require_once('/public/forums/global.php');

with whatever your home directory path is

Try

PHP Code:

$vwd = '/your/forum/path';
if ($vwd)
{
    chdir($vwd);
}
require_once('./global.php'); 


I'm trying to consolidate everything into one plugin. If I include global.php into the wordpress config.php file, this plugin (well the bottom half atleast ) works as intended. But I cannot seem to get the global.php file to load from the plugin script itself.

They got the global.php file to load in another plugin over at Complete Wordpress/Vbulletin Bridge - Share Users And Postings - vBulletin.org Forum but it is bugged out pretty hard at the moment (due to WordPress updating to 2.6) and is why I wanted to just move the include code over. Otherwise I would just keep using their script with my stuff just appended to the end

I tried

PHP Code:

require_once('/public/forums/global.php'); 


and

PHP Code:

$vwd = '/your/forum/path';
if ($vwd)
{
    chdir($vwd);
}
require_once('./global.php'); 


but both fail out when run as a wordpress plugin. When run as a standalone php file though they both work fine. I'm sure the path is correct now at least

Here's my problem code, followed by the full plugin.

I really appreciate you guys lookin at this. Now back to crawling the WP docs.

PHP Code:

// --- Problem Code Start ----//
//Get vB's global.php
$cwd = getcwd();
$vwd = '/path/to/forums';
chdir($vwd);
require_once('/absolute/path/to/forums/global.php');
chdir($cwd);
// --- Problem Code End----// 


And the (unfinished) full plugin for completeness...

PHP Code:

<?php
/* 
Plugin Name: *
Plugin URI: *
Description:  *
Plugin Version: *
Plugin Author: *
Author URI: *
 */ 

// --- Problem Code Start ----//
//Get vB's global.php
$cwd = getcwd();
$vwd = '/path/to/forums';
chdir($vwd);
require_once('/absolute/path/to/forums/global.php');
chdir($cwd);
// --- Problem Code End----//
 
//WordPress specific stuff
add_filter('the_content', 'hidden');

function hidden($content) { 
global $post;
global $vbulletin;
 
$out=$content; 

for ($number=1;$number<=9;$number++)
            {
            $key="HIDE".$number;
            $html= get_post_meta($post->ID, $key,false);
            if ($vbulletin->userinfo['usergroupid'] != 6) {
            $html=$html[0];
            } else {
            $html = "<a href='http://".$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . "/expert/external_login.php?r=http://". $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] .$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] . "&g=6'>TEST</a>";
            }
            $find="[".$key."]";
            $out=str_replace($find,$html, $out); 
            }
    
return $out;
    }
?>

I gave up on the plugin and just added the require() code to wp-config. lol, ill revisit it another day.

I did want to get your guys feedback though

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