PHP script in block crashes site

By daddydo on 3 Sep 2008 at 10:08 UTC

Using drupal 6.4
What I want to achieve: having a PHP output in a block. I stored a PHP script in sites/all/default/files. This PHP script generates a html output. In admin/build/block I add a block and typed include('.all/default/files/myfile.php'); The site is in all/themes/mysite. When I saved the block the website crashed, got a Forbidden message and I had to delete the block from DB.
It should be possible to have this output in a block, but obviously I don't follow the right steps. How should this be done?

Comments

I assume the problem is in

marcvangend

he/him

Dutch

Amsterdam

commented 3 September 2008 at 10:39

I assume the problem is in the path to your php file: .all/default/files/myfile.php can never be right, it should at least be ./all/default/files/myfile.php. But even then: your site is not in all/themes/mysite; that's just where your theme is. Your site is, put simply, in the site root '/'. I think you should try to include /sites/all/default/files/myfile.php (note the starting slash).

You may also want to wrap the include in an if statement that checks if the file exists at all, to prevent crashes:

<?php
$file = 'myfile.php';
if(file_exists($file)) {
    include($file);
}
?>

yup

dman commented 3 September 2008 at 10:58

good advice x3.

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marc - problem solved thanks

daddydo commented 4 September 2008 at 17:23

marc - problem solved thanks to your suggestion.
dman - you're right. next time better!

BTW Is there a way to call a certain block in a sidebar using URL?

>> BTW Is there a way to

marcvangend

he/him

Dutch

Amsterdam

commented 4 September 2008 at 21:18

>> BTW Is there a way to call a certain block in a sidebar using URL?
What do you mean? Blocks don't have a url, you can't call them by url. Blocks are placed in a region. Displaying of a block can depend on the url of the page it is on.

you might be looking for

dman commented 4 September 2008 at 23:59

you might be looking for (drupal 5, the 'delta' indexes changed in D6)

print theme('block', (object)module_invoke($modulename, 'block', 'view', $delta))

eg $modulename ='user', $delta='1' for the login block.

... but maybe you mean something else.

.dan.
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daddydo commented 5 September 2008 at 14:48

Something went wrong posting...Why edit is on?

I want to have a nice little

daddydo commented 5 September 2008 at 11:53

I want to have a nice little contact form in a block, that is always there no matter what node number is opened and when 'send' button is pressed, the current node stays open. Most contact forms have a error page that jumps out of the block, unless you have pointed it to it's URL page where it is originally placed (think of a separate 'contact-page'), but in this case there is not such a page. mmmm...., complicated. I found a script, that does this and cannot change it's behaviour. Now maybe there's a module for d6 but couldn't find it. The point is that the error page should stay in the block (or better the errors are not send via a new page), and the correct filled in fields should be kept. And of course no contact form without captcha and other security in its place. I know, asking too much......