I'm working on a WordPress Widget and the examples all have huge HTML/PHP chunks intermixed and it is impossible to read, so in the interest of trying to clean stuff up I'd like to move all of the HTML rendering to a separate PHP file that will be include()
'd.
The trick to this is, the file I include doesn't appear to have access to $this
and I'm unsure how to fix that.
widget.php
class Preorder extends WP_Widget {
...
function form() {
include('form.php');
}
}
form.php
<p>
<?php echo $this->get_field_id('title'); ?>
</p>
Which results in [31-Aug-2011 19:59:19] PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function get_field_id() on a non-object in ...
so clearly $this
doesn't come along for free. I've tried aliasing $this
to another variable & even just for fun using the global
keyword without success.
Hopefully I missed something easy.