Parsing variables from URLs into custom PHP / Getting Header/Footer to show up

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#1

Hey there,
So I have a website that has a lot of sections off the root directory (i.e outside the ‘wp-content’ folder) that use custom .htaccess and PHP to pull from a database. The old Wordpress theme was a Child Theme based on TwentyTwelve so it was easy to get the header and footer with get_header() and get_footer().

Now I’m trying to modernize the site, but I’m having a problem whereby the get_header() and get_footer() won’t snag the lovely Header and Footer I created with the Header and Footer builder.

Since the site is dependent on having these .htaccess Rewrite PHP database calls (at least for now) I would love to know if there’s a way to get the header and footer to show up in the PHP pages I’m using.

I know that seems a little vague but I’d be grateful for any discussion on how this can be achieved.

thank you!
Dan

#2

Hello @dgoldwas,

Thanks for writing to us.

In case if you have created a custom Header/Footer from Pro Header/Footer builder you can call the Header/ Footer by assigning the Header/Footer condition. Please have a look at our doc https://theme.co/docs/header-footer-overview#assigning-your-first-header-footer

You don’t need extra coding to call custom Header/Footer that has is been created through Pro Header/Footer builder.

Hope it helps
Thanks

#3

Thanks Prakash

Unfortunately that doesn’t help since the PHP files are outside the Wordpress system. (The PHP files are located in /video/, for example, in the file system structure, outside of wp_content)

For the older WP theme they pulled in the Wordpress environment with

<?php
define('WP_USE_THEMES', false);
require($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/wp-load.php');
/// pre-header code went here
get_header();
?>

And it worked very nicely and allowed for all the variables from the .htaccess rewrite to be pushed through:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /video/
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/?$ detail.php?id=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/index.php?$ detail.php?id=$1 [L]

So I know that right now get_header() doesn’t pull the Themeco Header I designed, but I’m hoping there is some way to get that to work? OR is there a way to set it up so that there’s a Wordpress page called “Videos” (with /video/ as the slug) that will let me pass variables such as /video/123/ even though such a WP page doesn’t exist?

thanks!
Dan

#4

Hello Dan,

Sorry for the confusion. The feature that you want would require custom development. I would suggest you contact a developer who can assist you with your concern. Please note that we don’t provide custom development support. It is out of the support scope.

You may have a look at the action and filter hook documentation it might help you.

To use custom code you need to have a child theme for that you can download the child theme from here.

Thanks for understanding

#5

That’s too bad. Hopefully you can add something where we can pull the Themeco headers and footers into custom PHP in the future.

#6

Noted. If there is anything else we can help you with, please do not hesitate to open another thread.

#7

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