I am using a wordpress template in php like this:
<?php
include('wp-blog-header.php');
get_header();
?>
...Hello World...
<?php get_footer(); ?>
ok, it works good… but the contents of title and other meta tags are empty. How can I change the header contents or use my own $variables inside the get_header() section? it doesnt work like this:
$test="Blabla";
get_header();
.. inside a wordpress header template:
echo $test;
the $test variable is empty :(.. any ideas? thanks!
The $test variable is empty because the header is included by a function, hence effectively ‘in’ the function, and more importantly, in a different scope.. think of it like
you can however use globals, or $_SESSION variables, or create a static class to hold variables in that can be called from anywhere.
the global option is probably the quickest fix here (not necessarily the strictest though).
hope that helps
put all your different custom function and/or variable in your functions.php
or replace
get_header();
by
include get_bloginfo(“template_url”).’/header.php’;
Simply replace:
with:
and the variable will be in scope. Try to avoid using globals.
By default get_header() pulls the header.php file. you could simply rewrite the header.php file to include what you want. If you don’t want to rewrite it for all templates but for only a few you could use get_header(‘name’) which would grab header-name.php in which you could have your own items.