Integrating PHP applications in Plone
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cbonnet
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last modified
Dec 30, 2008 03:02 PM
How to use PHPParser to display content from an external PHP application inside Plone.
Here are the steps to follow:
- Install PHParser
- From the ZMI, add a PHParser item that references each of your existing PHP page. For instance, if one of your PHP pages is located in
/myphp/index.php, your PHParser item will contain:<?php
include="/myphp/index.php";
?> - In the ZMI, create a Page template for each PHP file. Each Page template will reference a PHParser item. For instance, if you have called your PHParser item
mainPage:<html metal:use-macro="here/main_template/macros/master">
<head>
</head>
<body>
<tal:block metal:fill-slot="content" content="structure here/mainPage">
</tal:block>
</body>
</html>
You need the keyword structure if your PHP file generates HTML. If your PHP file generates plain text, you can simply use: content="here/mainPage".
Thanks to Wei He, creator of PHParser, for his help.
A more generic way
If you have many php files this is very tedious. There is in fact a more generic way, using one single template for all:
- Create the template in your portal_skins/custom folder instead, call it
php_viewand modify it slightly
- Replace
<tal:block metal:fill-slot="content" content="structure here/mainPage">
- With
<tal:block metal:fill-slot="content" content="structure here">
- Then you access all your PHParser pages with myphppage/php_view
Note that you must consider security if you take the generic approach: remember that all your PHP files in that particular folder will be accessible.
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