NYCPHP Meetup

[Anthony Ferrara]

Well, there are mambots for doing that.  I'm not sure
if it's 1.5 compatible, but check this out for a
start...
http://www.joomlaperformance.com/component/option,com_docman/task,cat_view/gid,19/Itemid,39/
--- "David A. Roth" <rothmail at comcast.net> wrote:

> I am converting an HTML based web site to Joomla
> 1.5RC1. In the body  
> of the HTML, it has about 10 lines of PHP code which
> grabs a number  
> from another web site so it can display this number
> in the middle of  
> a sentence. Something like, "...with the current
> member now at 810  
> members...". The number 810 is grabbed from an
> external web site  
> which gets updated when the number of members
> increases or decreases.
> 
> OK, I thought about how this might be done. One was
> to write a Joomla  
> Module to do the PHP, but didn't want to deal with
> the formatting of  
> the rest of the article to make it look like a
> natural one that  
> Joomla does so well.
> 
> The other idea, is that I went to Edit the article
> and select for it  
> to display HTML. I then inserted the PHP code such
> as:
> <?PHP
> 
> php code goes here
> ?>
> 
> I saved that and proceeded to reload the page in
> Joomla and no output  
> was generated from the PHP code. I returned to the
> article, had it  
> display HTML once again, and my PHP I included was
> gone.
> Now I never did this before in Joomla 1.x, so I
> don't know if insert  
> PHP is supported in this manner or not.
> 
> Q: Can PHP be embedded into the body of text in
> Joomla as I described  
> above to carry out its task?
> 
> Q: Should I be forced to write a module and include
> the whole article  
> inside the module just to do the PHP?
> 
> Q: Is there a more clever Joomla-like way to
> accomplish this in the  
> manner similar to how mosimage (jpgs) are inserted
> into the body of  
> text, but executed a PHP script?
> 
> Q: And what of Timmy, trapped in the well with
> Lassie distracted by a  
> ripped box of vanilla flavored Frosty Paws®  that
> fell off the truck?  
> When will help ever arrive? :-)
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> David Roth
> rothmail at comcast.net
> 
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