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Good morning!
First off I’d like to say fantastic work developing Piklist. I made the decision to switch over to your framework half way through developing a plugin, and I’ve never looked back!
I do have some questions however. I’m finding myself needing to include a file within a settings file in /parts/settings/. I’m developing a twitter plugin and within /settings/ I have a “twitter.php”. Within that file are the settings associated with authenticating. What I am trying to do is include the twitter API library from that settings file so I can store the user’s profile data in option fields. Everytime I try to include the file (whether its an absolute, or relative path), I get a “No such file” error.
If this is not possible, how would I go about passing data from my main plugin class file (that isn’t yet in the database) to the settings field files.
Let me know.
Thanks! 🙂
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@egnsh98– You should be able to
required_oncein any php file in the parts/ folder. Is it possible you are not including the correct or full path to the file?Fortunately, Piklist can help you with this since it stores the paths of all Piklist Plugins in:
piklist::$paths['my-plugin-folder']So if your code is located in /my-plugin/api/api.php, try including it like this:
require_once(piklist::$paths['my-plugin'] . '/api/api.php');Make sure you include
Plugin Type:in your plugins header block, so Piklist will store the path.Let us know if that works for you.
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@egnsh98–- Instead of
$this, you can call it using your class and function:class::function()the same way you just calledpiklist::$paths().If you still need help, let us know the name of your class and function
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Still having some trouble, OOP is still new to me. I am trying to call a Class method from outside my main plugin class. My
get_user()call works fine inside of my “Main” class, but when trying to call it from outside,NULLis returned. Here is what I have done so far, I have included only the code I thought was relevant to the problem and have put comments where necessary.<?php class Main { protected $user = null; public function __construct() { // Init and admin init action hooks } public function init() { // Check for piklist plugin // Enqeue admin styles and scripts // Action hook on authenticate function } public function authenticate() { $this->set_user( "John Smith" ); } public function set_user( $new_user ) { $this->user = $new_user; } public function get_user() { return $this->user; } } /* ------------------------------------------------ * Code from /parts/settings/twitter.php * ------------------------------------------------*/ $instance = Main::get_instance(); $user = $instance->get_user(); var_dump ( $user ); // Hidden field gets the username and registers it as a setting in the database piklist('field', array( 'type' => 'hidden' ,'field' => 'user_name' ,'value' => $user )); ?> -
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Here it is. And as I said,
$userhas a value if I echo it, but does not get passed into the value parameter of the hidden field.<?php /* Title: Twitter Setting: twitter_settings Tab: Twitter Settings Order: 200 */ // Consumer Key piklist('field', array( 'type' => 'text' ,'field' => 'consumer_key' ,'label' => __('Consumer Key') ,'value' => __('Consumer Key') ,'help' => __('Enter the Consumer Key found in your Twitter Apps settings') ,'capability' => 'manage_options' ,'position' => 'wrap' ,'serialize' => 'false' ,'attributes' => array( 'title' => 'Twitter API Application Consumer Key' ,'alt' => 'Twitter API Application Consumer Key' ,'tabindex' => '1' ,'onfocus' => "if(this.value == 'Consumer Key') { this.value = ''; }" ,'columns' => '12' ) )); // Consumer Secret piklist('field', array( 'type' => 'text' ,'field' => 'consumer_secret' ,'label' => __('Consumer Secret') ,'value' => __('Consumer Secret') ,'help' => __('Enter the Consumer Secret found in your Twitter Apps settings') ,'capability' => 'manage_options' ,'position' => 'wrap' ,'serialize' => 'false' ,'attributes' => array( 'title' => 'Twitter API Application Consumer Secret' ,'alt' => 'Twitter API Application Consumer Secret' ,'tabindex' => '2' ,'onfocus' => "if(this.value == 'Consumer Secret') { this.value = ''; }" ,'columns' => '12' ) )); // Access Token piklist('field', array( 'type' => 'text' ,'field' => 'oauth_token' ,'label' => __('Access Token') ,'value' => __('Access Token') ,'help' => __('Enter the Access Token found in your Twitter Apps settings') ,'capability' => 'manage_options' ,'position' => 'wrap' ,'serialize' => 'false' ,'attributes' => array( 'title' => 'Twitter API Application Access Token' ,'alt' => 'Twitter API Application Access Token' ,'tabindex' => '1' ,'onfocus' => "if(this.value == 'Access Token') { this.value = ''; }" ,'columns' => '12' ) )); // Access Token Secret piklist('field', array( 'type' => 'text' ,'field' => 'oauth_token_secret' ,'label' => __('Access Token Secret') ,'value' => __('Access Token Secret') ,'help' => __('Enter the Access Token Secret found in your Twitter Apps settings') ,'capability' => 'manage_options' ,'position' => 'wrap' ,'serialize' => 'false' ,'attributes' => array( 'title' => 'Twitter API Application Access Token Secret' ,'alt' => 'Twitter API Application Access Token Secret' ,'tabindex' => '1' ,'onfocus' => "if(this.value == 'Access Token Secret') { this.value = ''; }" ,'columns' => '12' ) )); // Get the user's profile information $instance = Main::get_instance(); $user = $instance->get_user(); // Twitter Name piklist('field', array( 'type' => 'hidden' ,'field' => 'twitter_name' ,'value' => $user )); ?> -
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I’m not sure how changing my functions to static would help. The getter and setter functions I have in my other class reference
$thisso changing to static would place that out of context. If I understand correctly, when I save the settings the value of the hidden field would be$userand it would get stored into the database? Because that is what I am trying to achieve.Within /parts/settings/twitter.php if I echo the value of
$userbefore the hidden field it prints out what I would expect, but when I check the options in the database the value of the hidden field is 0, and not the value of$user -
If you want us to look at your plugin please zip it up and email to [email protected]
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After investigating further, even manually typing a string into the value parameter of the hidden field registers nothing in the database. This is leaning me towards thinking the syntax of my hidden field is wrong? The hidden field does not exist on a post, user, or taxonomy, but on a custom admin page that I have created and registered with WordPress.
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@egnsh98– I reviewed your code and it worked for me. The fastest way to resolve this is to email us your code.
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@egnsh98– After looking at your code I think there may be a better way to do it. We suggest using the Piklist Filter
<a href="http://piklist.com/user-guide/docs/piklist_pre_update_option/">piklist_pre_update_option</a>. This filter will allow you to manipulate the data entered into the settings page BEFORE the page is saved.You probably want to do something like this:
add_filter('piklist_pre_update_option','my_update_option',10,3); function my_update_option($settings, $new, $old) { $field_one = $settings['field_one']; $new_field_one = my_function($field_one); if (isset($_REQUEST['autotweet_settings'])) { $settings['field_one'] = 'new_field_one'; } return $settings; }Let me know if that works for you.
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