[wp-hackers] Weird 1.5 template behaviour

[Stephen Cropp]

Thanks for that Ryan. Something so fundamental I wasn't even looking at 
it straight.

Much appreciated :)

Ryan Boren wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 01:12 +1300, Stephen Cropp wrote:
> 
>>Stephen Cropp wrote:
>>
>>>Okay... This is a little bizarre and I cannot find any reason as to why 
>>>this might happen.
>>>
>>>Here are some of the errors that are appearing when you load the page...
>>>
>>>-----8<-----
>>>Warning:  Variable passed to each() is not an array or object in 
>>>/home/scropp/public_html/includes/lib-xmlrpc-class.inc.php on line 70
>>>
>>>Warning: main(): Failed opening '/includes/buttons.php' for inclusion 
>>>(include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in 
>>>/home/scropp/public_html/dev/wp-content/themes/dgenx/sidebar.php on line 21
>>>
>>>Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in 
>>>/home/scropp/public_html/dev/wp-content/themes/dgenx/sidebar.php on line 22
>>>-----8<-----
>>>
>>>So my simple question is, why is get_header(); not working while a 
>>>simple include(); does? That is ultimately the only difference between 
>>>the two. I've tried tracing it, but I really cannot find a reason for it 
>>>to do so.
>>>
>>>Anyone have any ideas? This one is kind of bugging me ;-)
>>
>>
>>Further to this, it appears that it happens with all get_*(); functions. 
>>I tried require('header.php'); and left get_sidebar(); there and the 
>>sidebar still had errors in it. So it appears that if I use get_*(); to 
>>include any part of the theme, even with a global $dgenxhome, those 
>>parts can't access the vars in dgenx.conf.php for some reason.
>>
>>But the weird part is the functions still works :-|
>>
>>So for now, I am sticking with require(); to put the various parts of 
>>the theme together.
>>
>>Still, any ideas would really be appreciated.
> 
> 
> Files included from a function get that function's context rather than
> the global context.  That's why get_header() and friends use
> load_template() to setup the standard WP environment.  Non-WP global
> variables will not be present, however.
> 
> Ryan
> 
> 
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