Widgetizing

[doorlight]

I have a question.
Is there any way I could use widgets and php tags?
php can't execute with widgets right? only txt and html tags?

And was that a moronic question?

[ses5909]

no it's not a moronic question and hopefully can answer it for you. I think a widget executes independently of your blog and are typically written in HTML and JS. If you want to use PHP, I think you need to make a plugin.

Is there something specific you are wanting to do?

[doorlight]

Ah ic. A plugin.
Anyway, I'm just too lazy to edit the php files. hihihihi. You know, wordpress makes bloggers lazy. :p

[smittenbite]

well i think editing the wordpress php would be easier than making a plugin. although if you do that when you switch themes you gotta do it again or upload the original wordpress file again or else it might mess things up a bit

[goldfries]

editing PHP is definitely easier than making Plugin.

i've fully integrated my photo-gallery (which i custom made in PHP) into WP pages by installing a PHP plugin.

heck before the plugin, it the gallery was on the source. after the plugin, the gallery was on a WP Page. :)

sure is much easier than making a plugin.

so instead of making a plugin, you can actually have your own PHP file which you can use include tags to run.

[mccormicky]

I just widgetized a great wp theme called activate-10. It was so easy I thought that's it? This was to get the dynamic sidebar function so I could use the drag and drop widget manager, which is very cool.
Then I got the get_recent_comments plugin because the default get_comments plugin broke the layout a tiny weeny bit.
I'm guessign you are using an older theme if you don't have widgets already...but they are really easy to upgrade because I did it :)

[doorlight]

Update: I found the plugin for this, it's called Executable PHP Widgets. Go here Michael Martin entry (http://feeds.problogdesign.com/~r/ProBlogDesign/~3/151572235/)

I laahhhhhveeeeeet it.

[ses5909]

It's always great when we can link back to something one of our member's blogs!

[Michael Martin]

Wow! When you said that you'd asked on TBE, I thought you meant before I joined! I didn't realise you meant just a few hours before that post went live. lol!

For what it's worth, I future post my posts, so the post was written before this question, and that's why I didn't reply here. What a coincidence. xD

And thanks for sharing the link. :D