Where am I going wrong - attempted addon

[Jonnyism]

PHP Code:

$addon_name = "Jonnyisms Blog Addon";
$addon_description = "Displays Jonnyisms Blog in a page.";
$addon_version = "0.1";

$cutenews_current_blog = $number = "1"; include("cutenews/show_news.php");
$tpl = str_replace("<CUTENEWSBLOG>",$cutenews_current_blog,$tpl); 


I have attempted to make an addon allowing me to put my cute news powered blog into a template page using the above code (I did this by editing the current date example), however, when I turn this on it puts my blog at the top of every page, and does not put it in place of the tag.

I am not too confident with php so really don't know what to look for, could anybody help me out with this one?

[jaywilliams+]

Try this and see how it works: (untested)

PHP Code:

$addon_name = "Jonnyisms Blog Addon"; 
$addon_description = "Displays Jonnyisms Blog in a page."; 
$addon_version = "0.1"; 

function showNews(){
    $number = "1"; 
    include_once("cutenews/show_news.php"); 
}

$cutenews_current_blog = showNews();
$tpl = str_replace("<CUTENEWSBLOG>",$cutenews_current_blog,$tpl); 


[kevincrafts]

Well, whatever the show_news.php does could change things. For instance, if in that file you had something that said "echo $string;" - that would be displayed at the top of the page.

[TheMarco]

Kevincrafts is right. You must make sure that whatever you call, NOTHING echo's out anything. Instead, showNews() should return something:

PHP Code:

function showNews(){

 ...
 ...
 ...

  return $stuff;
    

} 


and then

PHP Code:

$cutenews_current_blog = showNews();
$tpl = str_replace("<CUTENEWSBLOG>",$cutenews_current_blog,$tpl); 


Functions not returning something but spitting out content in echo statements instead are most of the time bad practice anyway.