Flare Breaks PHP Code

fadibitz · Post by **fadibitz** » Tue Jun 26, 2012 4:33 am

Hi all,

We have multiple Help systems (for different products and versions) that all share the same corporate contact information. To prevent content anomalies in which some versions or products display different information on their respective contact pages, I decided I would try using <?php include() ?> to import a section of code from a folder common to all Help systems (our web server runs PHP):

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<div>...[content]...</div>

<?php include("../../../../../common_content_file.php") ?>

<div>...[content]...</div>

However, when I built the test project containing the PHP line, the following was the Flare output:

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<div>...[content]...</div>

<p>
</p>

<div>...[content]...</div>

Flare apparently interpreted and replaced the <?php include() ?> line with and empty HTML <p></p> tag.

Two questions:

1. Is this the expected behavior of Flare during the build process?

2. Because snippets are limited in scope to the project in which they reside, is there another way to achieve the effect I seek?

Thanks!

Post by **RamonS** » Tue Jun 26, 2012 5:17 am

This is a problem for a long time. And no, that behaviour is not expected, but Flare does it that way. I reported it as a bug a while ago and apparently it did not get fixed. The only two things I can think of are
- report it as a bug here: https://www.madcapsoftware.com/bugs/submit.aspx
- add the line after building output, a multi-file find & replace might help here

fadibitz · Post by **fadibitz** » Tue Jun 26, 2012 5:27 am

Thanks, Ramon.

That was very helpful. Disheartening, but helpful.

Post by **LTinker68** » Tue Jun 26, 2012 7:45 am

Could use put the PHP code in the toolbar and just invoke it from the topic, like description in this post for JavaScript --> http://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewto ... 785#p81753

fadibitz · Post by **fadibitz** » Tue Jun 26, 2012 9:13 am

That's is a good suggestion. I will check that out and return later with results or questions.

Thanks again, guys.

Post by **rob hollinger** » Fri Jun 29, 2012 7:57 am

There must be more to this than meets the eye. Support has your ticket and will probably be asking for an example topic or project that shows this issue.
Tested it with Flare V7 and V8.

Added this to a topic:

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    <body>
        <h1>Topic Title</h1>
        <div>
            <p>Delete this text and replace it with your own content.</p>
            <p>Delete this text and replace it with your own content.</p>
        </div>
        <?php include("../../../../../common_content_file.php") ?>
        <div>
            <p>Delete this text and replace it with your own content.</p>
            <p>Delete this text and replace it with your own content.</p>
        </div>
    </body>

This is what was in the output:

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<body>
        <div class="MCBreadcrumbsBox_0"><span class="MCBreadcrumbsPrefix">You are here: </span><span class="MCBreadcrumbs">Topic</span>
        </div>
        <h1>Topic Title</h1>
        <div>
            <p>Delete this text and replace it with your own content.</p>
            <p>Delete this text and replace it with your own content.</p>
        </div>
        <?php include("../../../../../common_content_file.php") ?>
        <div>
            <p>Delete this text and replace it with your own content.</p>
            <p>Delete this text and replace it with your own content.</p>
        </div>
        <div class="buttons inline-buttons clearfix topicToolbarProxy" style="mc-topic-toolbar-items: ;">
            <div class="button-group-container-left">
                <div class="button-group">
                    <button class="button needs-pie previous-topic-button" title="Navigate previous">
                    </button>
                    <div class="button current-topic-index-button disabled"><span class="sequence-index"></span> of <span class="sequence-total"></span></div>
                    <button class="button needs-pie next-topic-button" title="Navigate next">
                    </button>
                </div>
            </div>
        </div>
    </body>

hillaryfay · Post by **hillaryfay** » Tue Jan 22, 2013 2:02 pm

Hi, this might not be the correct area to ask this question, but I thought it was relevant. What is the "needs pie" class?

Post by **NorthEast** » Wed Jan 23, 2013 3:25 am

hillaryfay wrote:Hi, this might not be the correct area to ask this question, but I thought it was relevant. What is the "needs pie" class?

Pretty sure that'll be CSS3 PIE; which helps IE to support CSS3.

hillaryfay · Post by **hillaryfay** » Wed Jan 23, 2013 9:44 am

Thanks for clarifying!

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