Avoid including code in your database.
Common places code is included:
- Pages
- Blocks
- Contentplate
Why?
- Revision control becomes impossible
- Difficult to document
- Difficult to debug
- Hard to move between systems
- Difficult to upgrade
How To Avoid
- Add your code into a new module
- Add your code to the theme template.php file
Comments
Code in template.php
Hi,
this is a fine idea moving code from the page to template php so I thought I would give it a try on one of my pages.
I created a new function foobar in my template.php and in there constructed an $output string. The final line of the function is return $output;.
In my new test page I created a very simple php script
<?php
print foobar() ;
?>
When I preview the page all is fine but when I submit the page I get...
"Fatal error: Call to undefined function foobar() in /homepages/24/d236848111/htdocs/hrfc/includes/common.inc(1352) : eval()'d code on line 2."
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks
Keith
[EDIT] - Solved it, I needed to put a call to init_theme before the call to my own function.