WordPress Plugin: PHP Exec

Have you ever wanted to execute PHP codes inside a post? If yes, you need to install PHP Exec which is a plugin for WordPress that lets you execute dynamic PHP code in posts.

It masks PHP code before balanceTags, and unmask them afterwards, so it should be safe to use PHP code that has literal HTML tags in it, for example: code which print out HTML.

Installation is pretty simple. Download the plugin, put it into your wp-content/plugins directory and activate it. And when you need to execute PHP codes, enclose the code with …

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Posted on December 28th, 2006 | Category: WordPress Plugins |

11 responses so far,

Ari

December 28, 2006 at 10:54 pm

This code is especially important if you want to install such items as a star rating bar or similar device to let visitors to your blog rate the products/photos/whatever you post.

Aseem N

December 29, 2006 at 12:06 am

Hey… didnt knw this… thanks.

Deep

December 29, 2006 at 12:58 am

hmm I think runPHP plugin already does this.

Fanatyk

December 29, 2006 at 2:58 am

I’m using runPHP too

Enblogopedia

December 29, 2006 at 3:51 am

I searched for this plug-in last week(I think)..It`s a very helpful tool which will make you add some features to the post..I think you can put Poll or as Ari said!

dotone

December 29, 2006 at 6:30 am

Neat, but if you were a TXP user as I am then you would’ve had that built-in in your blogware ;), you enable that in your dashboard ticking a checkbox

I can only assume that this would work for WordPress template tags or functional tags that you would like to use in a post as well. There have been occasions I have wanted to “list links” in a post and it failed. I will need to test this out.