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Note: The ExecPHP widget does not work in the upcoming WordPress 2.5. Therefore, if you upgrade to 2.5, you will need to install the updated version of this widget. It can be found here, now and forever more: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/php-code-widget/
A new plugin for Wordpress came out that’s kinda cool. It’s called Widgets, and the general idea of it is to make the sidebars on your blog a bit more configurable, a bit more easily.
So, I decided to spend an hour or so converting my sidebars to Widgets so I could manage them a bit simpler. Editing PHP code is easy but time consuming, while dragging stuff and dropping it to rearrange the blog, well, that’s quick and easy.
Few things I learned:
- The Widgets Plugin does not like Windows. Since I run this site on a Windows box (edit: I did then, I don’t anymore, and anyway, they have fixed this problem since then), it needed some tweaking to make it work. For those who want to know, the problem is in the sidebar_admin_setup() function in widgets.php. More info on this problem is in the comments of this post.
- Text boxes are extremely useful when converting from your existing customized webpage to a widgets based one, as you can simply cut and paste chunks of HTML into them and voila, you’ve got a sidebar widget. However, there’s not a lot of text widgets available. If you need more text widgets, you will need to edit these functions: widget_text_setup(), widget_text_page(), and widget_text_register(). As it turned out, I didn’t need but 4 text widgets because:
- Despite how useful text boxes were for a quick migration, they were not enough.
So, I ended up writing two plugins of my own.
The first one is a Google AdSense plugin. You can download it here: gadsense.zip. It’s exactly the same as the Text widgets, but with (very) minor tweaks specifically for inserting Google Ads in the sidebars. Also, it shows a name of “Google AdSense” in the widgets panel, which is nice. Like the Text widget, you can have more than 1 of them, but unlike the Text widget, you can only have 4 of them, since Google’s TOS only allows 3 ads and 1 link block on a page.
The next one is also like the Text plugin, however it will also let you put PHP code into the text and have it actually work. Here’s the download: execphp.zip. Like the Text plugin, you can have up to 9 of them (more if you want to tweak the code). Note that any PHP code you put into the widget MUST be surrounded by <?php and ?> tags, just like writing PHP normally. Also note that this is isn’t exactly safe, as it’s just doing an eval() on whatever you put in there, so you have complete and full access, as does anybody else who can get to your admin screen. Still, it’s very useful.
Both of those are plugins. Just drop them in the widgets folder under the plugins folder, and activate them on the plugins screen. Then the widgets will be available for you to use on the widgets screen.
Hope these help somebody. They sure helped me. 
i just downloads the adsense widget and upload to specific folder, activate it…
but
at the widgets layout page, its appears a blank widget, with no title…
i am using latest upgraded wp 2.6.2
any guide?
The adsense widget is way out of date and should not be used any more. Use a standard text widget instead, or one of the wonderful plugins for adsense over at http://wordpress.org/extend.
Awesome widget! Exactly what I needed. Thanks so much.
If I want to use php code widget with a theme that is not widget-aware, what should I do? Thanks
Hi Otto,
I was looking for a plugin that does exactly what yours does. My problem is, i have activated it already, but how and where do i put the adsense code? sorry i’m really new at this, hope you could help so I could put up the adsense on the right side of my site. Thanks for your help Otto.
That is a great plug in. It is working perfect. I am using it to get the latest posts from my phpBB forum. However, I had to re-install the forum and the widget went crazy. I cannot access my php code in the widget as the code corrupted my widget section in the admin panel. Is there a .php file where my code I entered in the widget is stored, so that I can edit it. As I have no more access to the widget/code from WP-Admin. I can deactivate the plug-in an all is working again but I would like to use it. I tried to override the execphp with a fresh file but the plugin still remembers my code. Where can I edit it ?
http://codex.wordpress.org/Plu.....bility/2.5 says this plugin is not compatible with 2.5, do you plan to update it?
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thanks soooo much for this great plugin
OMG thanks soooo much!!
I’ve been trying to find a plugin like this for days now
Thanks, I had no clue a plugin like execphp existed but have wished one did for quite some time now.
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If the function is coming up as undefined like that, then either the other plugin is not activated, or it’s misspelled…
ok, I’m just a goober at this, so here is a link to the code http://www.thecosmeticcounter.com/code.txt
Cheers Otto! Fantastic! I had problems getting WordTube to work as a widget (wanted multiple songs listed, not just one), and couldn’t get the multi-version to go into a sidebox. Your widget did the trick
Now I just have to figure out why anything under the widget is way out of alignment (like off the bottom).
Cheers!
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@myself
Ok, nothing to do with execphp. Why this confusion ? Because the problem occured when i activated execphp … If you have a dispaly problem with IE (or any other browser but Firefox seems less touchy) when adding a widget with a plugin, you should test adding a built-in wordpress widget at the same place … Correlation is not causality, old story … ;o) Thanks for your time.
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AllyAnderson: No, I’m sorry, but there is no problem whatsoever with the PHP Code widget. The exephpwidget DIV is coded correctly, and everything inside that DIV is generated by the PHP code that you type into the widget!
I too had the problem with the code messing up in IE. It was not a php code problem. In the plugin file I had to add a right after the div class execphpwidget. Now everything works beautifully in IE.
I knew it wasn’t the code because all of the various codes I tried from half a different plugins messed up the sidebar. 6 plugin writers couldn’t write php code snippets that poorly in my opinion.
Glad it’s fixed. Hope this works for someone else!
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Hello Otto,
Excellent plugin. Thanks a lot for that, since i needed it to get the just-as-excellent wp-ajax-newsletter plugin to work (http://code.google.com/p/wp-ajax-newsletter/). One question though: you refer to some safety problem, although you don’t explain this. What’s the danger of using the plugin? For your information: it works at my site, so there’s no problem to be solved. Just curious.
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Otto: Bruce was having a problem with “permissions” with widgets.php. I had a similar problem stating “Method not implemented – POST to /wp-admin/widgets.php”. I suspect others are having similar problems.
The problem was that the “ModSecurity” module in Apache was detecting what it though was a “PHP Injection Attack” when posting (submitting) the php code in your widget. (Normally you would not want a visitor to your website to post php code that would be executed.)
My (crappy) solution was to turn off (comment out) that part (2 lines) of the modsecurity, submit the php widget, then re-enable the modsecurity. It means you have to have access to your Apache config while making changes to the php widget code, OR you need to permanently disable the modsecurity — NOT a good idea!
But if you don’t update the PHP widget code very often, temporarily disabling the modsecurity while submitting the code works okay.
A possible work-around: Do as described above to submit a php code widget that is simply a PHP include command. Then modify the separate php file using FTP, vi, or whatever appropriate tools you have.
Otherwise, after a little digging through error logs and other messing around, the widget works as advertised. THANKS!
Brooke: The plugin works perfectly well with 2.3.1, there’s nothing wrong with it. You need to understand that by itself, the PHP widget does nothing of importance. Any code that is created on your page is created by the PHP you put into the widget. If it’s broken, then either your code is broken or the theme is broken.
Yes, having the same problem as Chewru Guru with 2.3.1 wordpress…. any ideas??? I’ve used this plugin for many other sites with older versions of wp just fine.
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Thanks, i just used this plugin.
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Without knowing the specific PHP code you’re putting in the widget, I cannot tell you what the problem is. However, it’s absolutely certain that it’s the code you’re putting into the widget. The ExecPHP widget is like the Text widget: by itself, it does absolutely nothing. It’s just a container for your own code.
I suggest running your site through the W3C validator. If your code is valid, it will likely show up correctly in all browsers. If your code is invalid, then it won’t. That’s sort of the point of validation.
I’m having a problem with IE7/Opera and the Exec-PHP (4.2) plugin on latest wordpress 2.3.1. In firefox, it works gloriously. In IE7 and Opera, however, if anything is BELOW the widget containing the php code, the alignment goes to hell and everything is screwy. Im using the cutline 3.1 theme and the widget in question is Star Ratings for Reviews 0.4.
The workaround is to put the Exec-PHP widget as the last widget on the sidebar, but obviously in this case that’s not where I want it to be. =)
I’ve seen you state that it’s the PHP code, but I imagine I dont get why it would work in firefox then. Of course it’s a superior browser, but.. heh.
Thanks for all your hard work! Let me know if you have any ideas.
I wish I had this plugin sooner for one of my clients! Thanks a lot for doing all this work Otto! Great plugin, works as advertised.
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Thank you very much.
It works fine!
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Michel: Update to the latest WordPress. Either 2.2.3 or 2.3. This will fix your problem.
Hmmm. It seems that when I add a second widget, the results is a repeat of the first one. So I get two instances of the first execphp widget output on the sidebar.
(I’m using WP 2.2.)
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Just used this – works great – Thanks!
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Hi Otto,
it doesn´t works with my WordPressMU 1.2.4. Only text will be saved, no php-code.
WP 2.2.2 –> it works.
Viele Grüße,
Maxoo
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David,
No, ExecPHP is perfectly compatible with Beta 3, something’s just wrong with the code you put into the widget. Because your code executes in the context of the execphp plugin, any error in your own PHP code causes the error to appear to come from the plugin. But the key here is that the error is in the “eval()’d code”. Your own code is the code that’s being “eval()’d”.
Sorry, I know that that doesn’t help much, but it’ll tell you where to look at least.
Hi Otto,
I’m currently using 2.3 Beta 3 of WP and am getting the following error when I try to insert my FAlbum php script to display 4 random photos:
Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/.valenzuela/dcelis/david.sebastiancelis.com/wp-content/plugins/execphp.php(24) : eval()’d code on line 1
Is this compatability issues with Beta 3, or is something wrong just happening?
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If that update fixes your problem, then you need to update WordPress. One version of WP had a bug that required that fix, but the latest version works perfectly with the original version.
Update the widgets.php according to post 32 http://ottodestruct.com/blog/2.....omment-756 solve my problem.
Thanks
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ExecPHP widget – Great plugin, thanks for building it!
Steve
Heri: You are using an older or incorrect version of Widgets. The version of Widgets that was included in the first release of Widgets in the core code had this problem. It was patched for subsequent releases of WordPress.
In other words, update WordPress to the latest version (2.2.2 as of this writing) and the problem will go away.
Hi Otto, I write at montrealtechwatch.com
I used the phpcode to pull most commented posts. however, I noticed that if you add another php code widget, for another php function, it displays the exactly the same thing, i.e. the results from the first php code 1 widget. looked at the database, and it stores both php code in the wp_options row. i don’t know now where to look at.
????
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Thanks a lot !! I’m a complete newcomer to wordpress and spent days and night trying to figure how to insert my html code from amazon or del.icio.us like I did on Blogger ! Thanx a lot ! You saved my next 2 or 3 coming nights for sleeping !
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Worked like a charm for Technorati Rank, but not Stumble Crumble.
Any ideas?
THANKS!
Works as advertised. Great plugin.
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Otto, not attempting to edit the widget file. That’s what’s odd. I just add the PHP widget to my sidebar, put some code in it, and get the following message
You don’t have permission to access /keenstuff/kltestblog/wp-admin/widgets.php on this server.
The code I put in is simple
Recent Posts
">
Strange. The widgets file is showing a permission of 644.
I know I am doing something wrong somewhere but just don’t know what. Any suggestions? By the way, I get an odd “you cannot write to such and such directory” for some other admin items,too. Not a pattern. There must be a permission screwed up somewhere along the way.
Thanks,
Bruce
Bruce: What are you talking about? It’s a plugin. Drop it anywhere in the plugins folder, activate the plugin. You don’t need to edit any widgets.php file or anything like that.
All the files in the Wordpress directory must have at least 444 permissions, most likely, but that’s normal for Wordpress.
Tried it on my test site, which has 2.2.1 installed, and got a message along the lines of “you don’t have permission to edit (or access?) widget.php file on this server …”
Smells like I need to fool with my file permissions but not sure what setting to assign. Currently have set to write by me only.
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Wordpress 2.2.1 works with the ExecPHP widget as is, no changes required.
And no, you will not lose any settings by updating the widget.
I have the problem with Wordpress 2.2 and understand that I need to update my widgets.php as per link at the top of this page. Will this effect my current widgets settings?
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Thx a lot for the solution with the execphp. I use it for my latest Pixelpost photograph to be displayed in WP.
Best wishes!!
Jens
that is so amazing plugin to wordpress and me
Thank u so much,? am so funny
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@chutney: Something is wrong with the PHP code you put into the widget. That’s what causes that error.
@rogilvie: I can’t tell you what’s wrong with your code, exactly. The widget itself doesn’t modify anything or produce any real output of its own. If it’s breaking the page, it’s your code that is doing it, somehow.
sry – this is the whole code, removed the php tags at start and end to get it in the post…
wp_list_pages(’exclude=44,45,46,48,50,51,52,53&title_li=’ . __(’Pages’) . ” );
Getting this error:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/.dino/chutney/makingchutney.com/wp-content/plugins/execphp.php(24) : eval()'d code on line 1Well… duh!
Nevermind, I deleted and reloaded the plugin and it works as advertised.
Steven: The PHP widget is basically identical to the Text widget. It cannot “screw up” anything by itself.
It’s certainly possible for the code you use to do something like that though. So I’d suggest changing your code.
Executable PHP widget seems to screw the sidebar up in IE 7. No problem in Firefox. Using WordPress 2.2. Makes the bottom half of the sidebar move to the opposite side and not lined up. Using default theme.
Here is the code I put in the widget
‘ . __(’Pages’) . ” ); ?>
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thanks..
i really dont understand about php
so with this widget its easy
just copy paste..lol
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There’s a fix for Wordpress 2.2 that will correct this problem:
Download this file: widgets.php.
Replace your /wp-includes/widgets.php with this file. Problem solved for the moment.
I’ll have a fix to the widget itself that should allow it to work with anything sometime tonight.
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Thanks.
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Look at http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4275
Hmm…Samsarin’s PHP widget seems to have the same bizarre problem.
I’m having trouble using this plugin with WP 2.2. Whenever I have more than one of these widgets in use at one time, the contents of the first to be evaluated are copied to every other instance of the widget.
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OK. That didn’t work either. Here’s the link if anyone needs it:
http://wordpress.org/support/t.....ost-557660
Oops here the advice from Otto
You need to edit that widget and add and around the function call that you’re making. Why? Because the html it’s creating has each link inside of an li tag, but you don’t have a list around those for the li tags to make sense.
Just edit the widget and change this:
// //
to this:
//
//
forgot to put in the backslashes. The backslashes are like quotation marks around the code. They are not part of the answer.
Otto, Thank you so much for coming over to wordpress/support to help me with my question. Your answer worked perfectly. I’ll put it here too in case anyone is having trouble with Top Commentators or Popularity Contest formatting.
Here was Otto’s response:
You need to edit that widget and add and around the function call that you’re making. Why? Because the html it’s creating has each link inside of an li tag, but you don’t have a list around those for the li tags to make sense.
Just edit the widget and change this:
to this:
Thanks again!
Hi Otto,
I think I’m having an problem with execphp, but I’m not sure if it’s that or the plugins I’m using. The two
I’m having issues with are “Popularity Contest” and “Top Commentators” – both use php code to call them.
would you mind taking a look at this thread over at wordpress support to see if you have any insight for me?
http://wordpress.org/support/t.....;id=116715
thanks so much!
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Martin: You put the php file into the wp-content/plugins folder. Then you go to the plugins screen and activate the plugin. Finally, you go to the widgets screen, and you’ll have a new widget available for dragging and dropping into the sidebar. When you configure it, it’ll have a textbox for pasting the adsense code into.
I’m new to WordPress, how do I exactly put my AdSense code into my sidebar using gadsense.php?. I know basic PHP and HTML, but I do not know WordPress Plug in API. I’ve also activated widgets plug in successfully.
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Every time I try to put the php code on it using your widget it says: The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.
No matter when I try it. It says that EVERY time.
if you could please email me if you know what’s wrong, i would really appreciate it. (the-musicinmyheadAThotmail.com)
thanks
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I cant express enough thanks for this wonderful widget, it has made my life very easy, thank you so much.
I’m new to WordPress, how do I exactly put my AdSense code into my sidebar using gadsense.php?. I know basic PHP and HTML, but I do not know WordPress Plug in API. I’ve also activated widgets plug in successfully.
James: Fixed.
The download links no longer work
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Just what I was looking for. I just updated my theme to a widget based, and had to move all my custom menu. Thanks, and keep up the good work.
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Thanks for the Adsense widget! It’s exactly what I’ve been looking for. Now it’s up and running. Thanks again.
Hi,
When I insert some PHP code into the widget and hit update/save, all the code dissapears! So it’s not working. Any ideas on what may be causing this? I am using WP 2.1 and on WP Mu.
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I realized that the code I’d put in my last comment didn’t come through in tact. In any case, I suspect it’s beside the point. The real question may be this: Would it be possible to alter the execphp widget so that it included conditionality? E.g., in addition to the title and code boxes that currently exist, there could be another box at top which allowed the option of attaching conditional code. If left blank, the widget would function as it does now. If filled it, the conditions would be assessed, and only if true woud the box then be added, again just as it works now, but if the conditions proved false, then no box would be added to the sidebar at all. This would probably solve everything I need, and it would open up a world of possibility for this widget’s usage!
execphp is a great little plugin! You can see the Categories block I created with it on my left sidebar at potluck.com — it shows only the top level items, no subcategories, just what I’d wanted.
I wonder, though — on the “Potluck Creative Arts” page and all its subpages, I’d love for an image to show up *instead* of the Category block. I tried this:
“;
} else {
echo “Categories” . wp_list_cats(’sort_column=ID&children=0&list=1&hide_empty=0′) . “”;
} ?>
…and I got close. The image shows up correctly on the appropriate pages instead of the category block. However, on all other pages/posts, the category block goes crazy — instead of showing up the way it does right now on the site, the “Categories” heading appears at the very bottom, below all the category items, and each category item is formatted as if it were its own little sidebar block, with the graphic outline. Looks terrible! Any idea what I could do, or is that just too much a general php/CSS question for me to ask here w/r/t to the execphp plugin?
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Thanks a lot. nice pair. Downloaded, installed, using
When I paste my adsense script in the adsense widget and click save changes, on re-opening the text disappears!
Should I do something to encode/escape the HTML tags?
Never mind the above; for whatever reason, the problem vanished after re-downloading, replacing the file, trashing the cache, and reloading the page.
-rob.
I’m having trouble with what should be quite simple — the plug-in is downloaded and it resides in the proper directory, but it won’t show in the list of available plug-ins. Help?
-rob.
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Awesome!! That execphp was just what I was looking for! You rock!
The link has been fixed. Sorry, I’ve had hosting issues lately.
hi, i just wanted to download exephp.zip. the link seems to be broken??
can you send me the zipfile to me email adress? would be sooo great!!!!!!!
thanks kris