[wp-hackers] Widget Weirdness - Doesn't like the file name widgets.php

[John Blackbourn]

On 27 June 2011 15:45, John Blackbourn <johnbillion+wp at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 27 June 2011 14:13, Alex Andrews <awgandrews at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hey folks,
>>
>> Getting something odd going on with Widgets. In the context of a
>> theme, I am attempting to add customised widgets. For ease of coding,
>> widgets live in another file includes/widgets.php.
>>
>> If I do, in the functions.php file:
>>
>> require_once('includes/widgets.php');
>>
>> function buffer_widgets_init () {
>>    register_widget('buffer_latest_features_widget');
>> }
>> add_action('widgets_init', 'buffer_widgets_init');
>>
>> Then it fails with a message: Fatal error: Class
>> 'buffer_latest_features_widget' not found in
>> /Users/alex/Sites/wp-includes/widgets.php on line 324.
>
> Your include() line is trying to include the widgets.php file inside
> wp-admin/includes. You should either use a full path in your
> include(), or rename the file.
>

Sorry, I meant your require_once() line, not include().