How to create a plugin

[Andrew]

So here is my code to display on the homepage only except the first if statement is always evaluated as true on all pages. Any help would be appreciated.

I am using the global_start hook.

if(empty($FORM['a']) && empty($FORM['app']) && empty($FORM['method']) && empty($FORM['cat'])){
        $path = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];
        $path .= "/tla.php";
        include_once($path);
        $TMPL['TLA'] = tla_ads();
        $TMPL['sidebar_1_bottom'] .= $TMPL['TLA'];
        $TMPL['sidebar_1_bottom'] .= "This is homepage";
}
else
{
        $TMPL['errormsg'] = "This is not homepage";
        $TMPL['sidebar_1_bottom'] .= $TMPL['errormsg'];
}

 

[Andrew]

I used this instead

$urlpath = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
if($urlpath == "/" || $urlpath == ""){

 

[Andrew]

One last error

including this in my global_start.php gives me an error

$TMPL['sidebar_1_bottom'] .= $this->do_plugin_skin('./plugins/HomepageTextLinks','text_links_homepage');

 PHP Fatal error:  Using $this when not in object context in /var/www/html/index.php(156) : eval()'d code on line 3

 

[Basti]

$this is out of the context. using base::do_plugin_skin should work

 

[Mark]

to work with some hosting environment where /stats/ was reserved, the stats.php file is now details.php

 

[Mark]

The file name needs to match your plugin hook location.

So instead of my-plugin-text.php rename that file to global_start.php

The file name dictates where your code will be inserted.