phpchick

anybody?

I figured it out.

I didn’t put the $page variable, back into the $args array

the corresponding part should have looked like this

$args = array(
	'posts_per_page' => 3,
	'post_type'=> 'post',
	'category_name' => 'premium-news-updates',
	'paged' => $paged
);

It was working, the culprit was that I was editing the header file from the original wordpress installation and not the current one that I was trying to modify

I’m calling it from the same file from which the header-member.php file is located.

The files in the wordpress installation are a copy from another instance, will that make a difference?

If so, where does one edit the file path from which the get_header function gets the path?

looks like you have to include the wp-config.php file, which is what I added:

include “../public_html/wp-config.php”;

Found it Andrew, but when I go in there, the value looks like this…

a:2:{i:2;a:41:{s:5:”title”;s:18:”Last 5 Predictions”;s:7:”symbol1″;s:4:”KORS”;s:7:”symbol2″;s:4:”GMCR”;s:7:”symbol3″;s:4:”MSFT”;s:7:”symbol4″;s:1:”M”;s:7:”symbol5″;s:4:”LULU”;s:6:”price1″;s:5:”48.34″;s:6:”price2″;s:5:”17.92″;s:6:”price3″;s:5:”32.87″;s:6:”price4″;s:5:”35.87″;s:6:”price5″;s:5:”58.98″;s:12:”shortsymbol1″;s:3:”TIF”;s:12:”shortsymbol2″;s:3:”KSS”;s:12:”shortsymbol3″;s:3:”BKS”;s:12:”shortsymbol4″;s:4:”LQDT”;s:12:”shortsymbol5″;s:4:”DECK”;s:11:”shortprice1″;s:5:”60.34″;s:11:”shortprice2″;s:5:”60.87″;s:11:”shortprice3″;s:5:”20.28″;s:11:”shortprice4″;s:5:”32.87″;s:11:”shortprice5″;s:5:”60.83″;s:4:”cat1″;s:11:”Sales Accel”;s:4:”cat2″;s:11:”Competition”;s:4:”cat3″;s:7:”Surface”;s:4:”cat4″;s:11:”Holiday Str”;s:4:”cat5″;s:11:”Sales Accel”;s:9:”shortcat1″;s:14:”Sandy Exposure”;s:9:”shortcat2″;s:11:”Macro Conce”;s:9:”shortcat3″;s:10:”Nook Decel”;s:9:”shortcat4″;s:13:”Decel Traffic”;s:9:”shortcat5″;s:8:”Ugg Risk”;s:5:”date1″;s:5:”11/16″;s:5:”date2″;s:5:”11/16″;s:5:”date3″;s:5:”11/17″;s:5:”date4″;s:5:”11/17″;s:5:”date5″;s:5:”11/20″;s:10:”shortdate1″;s:5:”11/15″;s:10:”shortdate2″;s:5:”11/08″;s:10:”shortdate3″;s:5:”11/20″;s:10:”shortdate4″;s:5:”11/17″;s:10:”shortdate5″;s:5:”11/18″;}s:12:”_multiwidget”;i:1;}

How in bloody hell does one take that and turn it into something nice to work with? There must be some short cut?

Solved!

I removed the quotes.

$objYahooStock->addStock($stocksymbol);

Thank you everybody for so much help ??

One more issue

$objYahooStock->addStock(“$stocksymbol”);

That line is getting read as $stocksymbol
What do I have to do change in order to make it read the variable, as opposed to $stocksymbol?

I’ve tried wrapping in braces like

$objYahooStock->addStock(“{$stocksymbol}”);

but it did not work

UGH.

The directory starts in the plugin root and NOT the directory that the file is located in.

I changed
include_once(‘class.yahoostock.php’);
to
include_once(‘prediction-widget/class.yahoostock.php’);

and now it works. ARGH

One last question,

function widget($args, $instance)
  {

  function getstockstats($stocksymbol)
  {
	include_once('class.yahoostock.php');
	$objYahooStock = new YahooStock;
	$objYahooStock->addFormat("snl1d1t1cvc1p2");
	$objYahooStock->addStock("msft");

	foreach( $objYahooStock->getQuotes() as $code => $stock)
{
    ?>
    Code: <?php echo $stock[0]; ?> <br />
    Name: <?php echo $stock[1]; ?> <br />
    Last Trade Price: <?php echo $stock[2]; ?> <br />
    Last Trade Date: <?php echo $stock[3]; ?> <br />
    Last Trade Time: <?php echo $stock[4]; ?> <br />
    Change and Percent Change: <?php echo $stock[5]; ?> <br />
    Volume: <?php echo $stock[6]; ?> <br /><br />
    <?php
}

 if ( $stocksymbol == "aapl" ) {
	$result = "Test!<br />";
	echo $result;
}
  }

getstockstats("aapl");
    echo $after_widget;
  }

Why doesn’t my function work when I add the echos inside that foreach loop? I have a feeling it is some sort of permissions issue but am not sure

I changed to this,

function getstockstats($stocksymbol)
  {
 if ( $stocksymbol == "aapl" ) {
	$result = "Test!<br />";
}
echo $result;
  }

and it worked. But shouldnt returning $result also print it out?

whats the difference between echo and return ?

All I wanted to do was print “yourname is some guy”

Just want to follow up. I solved the problem and I did it by adding these lines

global $paged, $wp_query, $wp;
$args = wp_parse_args($wp->matched_query);
if ( !empty ( $args['paged'] ) && 0 == $paged ) {
  $wp_query->set('paged', $args['paged']);
  $paged = $args['paged'];
}

I added them right before these lines

$wp_query = new WP_Query( $args );    //these 3 $wp_query use to be "$the_query"   --  when you change these to wp_query, it seems to enable the wp_paginate
		while ( $wp_query->have_posts() ) : $wp_query->the_post();

and the reason is this

“$paged (it doesnt matter if you make it global and access via the variable $paged or you use get_query_var(‘paged’) always resolves to 0.
The /page/2 matches the correct rewrite rules.

matched_rule: page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$
matched_query: index.php?&paged=$matches[1]
matched_query (evaluated): &paged=2

but, $paged is 0 no matter what.”

And I found the above (and the solution), here https://wpquestions.com/question/show/id/701

And then, to get wp_paginate working properly (it was showing every post on the same page, while looping the html over and over again),

I added wp_reset_query immediately following the code for wp-paginate, like so

<?php if(function_exists('wp_paginate')) {
	    wp_paginate();
	}
			wp_reset_query();
	?>

Thanks for all the help alchymyth x0x0

So using that snippet causes at least the link “older entries” to show up.

When you click on it however, it goes to url.com/page/2/ but all the stories are the same as the first.

In addition, the link on ‘page/2’ is a link to itself, ‘page/2’ if that makes sense.

Just want to follow up so others can use the code if they need help.

I was able to fix the code thanks to esmi and here it is

add_filter('query_vars', 'geturlvar' );
function geturlvar( $qvars )
{
  $qvars[] = 'sector';
  return $qvars;
}

$args = array(
	'post_type' => 'earnings', // use to be stock
	'posts_per_page' => 3,
	'offset' => $_GET['offset'],
	'meta_query' => array(
            array(
			'key' => 'sector',
			'value' => $_GET['sector']
			))
);

Thank you so much esmi! <3