PHP support for Pod Templates and Pod Pages

Same problem here ??

Moving functions and calculations out of the template with code snippets and inserting results into the template worked for me.

Sample: https://docs.pods.io/code-snippets/return-calculated-value-pods-template/

Custome Code with pods: https://docs.pods.io/faqs/where-should-i-put-code-for-use-by-pods/

• This reply was modified 2 months, 3 weeks ago by Juan Clientea.
• This reply was modified 2 months, 3 weeks ago by Juan Clientea.

Yes, helper functions can be used in case where a new function would take a single field value as an argument.

For more complex logic, the simplest route is usually adding a shortcode:

// Calculate the difference between two fields.
// Usage: [difference field1="field1_name" field2="field2_name"]
add_shortcode(
    'difference',
    function( $atts, $content, $tag ) {
        $pod = pods();
        $value1 = $pod->field( $atts['field1'] );
        $value2 = $pod->field( $atts['field2'] );

        
        return sprintf(
            '<pre>
                The field named <code>%s</code> contains %s.
                The field named <code>%s</code> contains %s.

                The field1 minus field2 is %s.
            </pre>',
            $atts['field1'],
            $value1,
            $atts['field2'],
            $value2,
            number_format(
                ( floatval( $value1 ) - floatval( $value2 ) ),
                2,
                '.',
                ','
            )
        );
    }

);

This is great. Thank you for your replies. It makes a lot of sense now.

Hi , I cant use: define( ‘PODS_DISABLE_EVAL’, true ); it doesnt work in my wp-config.php

Hi @manuel1610

By setting it to true you are actually disabling it. Try setting it to false and PHP will work again. But as mentioned, this is deprecated so I would suggest switching to the helper functions as described above.

Cheers, Jory

Hi Guys, hey this is big issue for us as we have PHP functions interspersed throughout our templates and is necessary for what we’re doing. Why the need to depricate and ultimately remove? Could you please reconsider and keep this functionality?

If not, this involves a lot of heavy lifting for us. Does it work to use PHP shortcode inserts (such as WP CODE Lite)?

@jefftobler Yes shortcodes are a viable standard way of inserting PHP into content. Also see add_shortcode.