Title: php load function not working
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# php load function not working

 *  [matheyrichs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matheyrichs/)
 * (@matheyrichs)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-load-function-not-working/)
 * Hi,
 * I’m using a code snipet that creates a spinning album of photos from a picasa
   web album RSS feed. Up until recently I was just using 1 album, which is really
   simple and straightforward. However, I thought it would be really cool to write
   a php script that would randomly display one album from all of a specific Picasa
   user’s albums.
 * Shouldn’t be too tricky, right?
 * I got this to work on my local deployment of wordpress using the following code(
   separate php file, randomImageGallery.php):
 * _[Code moderated as per the [Forum Rules](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/68664).
   Please use the [pastebin](http://wordpress.pastebin.ca/)]_
 * I then just used an include for this file on my index.php and had no problems
   whatsoever.
 * Here’s the kicker: I tried uploading this as a brand new theme, tried editing
   the old theme through the wordpress editor, tried FTPing index.php and randomImageGenerator.
   php to my site online. Nothing worked. I thought maybe this was because my server
   was set up with php 4.4.9 by default, but I just upgraded to 5.2.12 and there’s
   no difference. No matter what I do, nothing in my index.php file after the include
   line for randomImageGenerator.php shows up. Oh I also tried putting everything
   inline in index.php and that didn’t work either.
 * I tried removing the main block of php (first php tag in the code above) and 
   the rest of my code below showed up. So I went line-by-line adding a single line
   of php back in at a time, and everything was fine until I hit:
 * `$xmlDoc->load($xml);`
 * Deleting this line alone does not solve the problem, and I’m really not sure 
   at this point what could be going wrong. Can anyone help me out? Thanks in advance!

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 * Last activity: [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-load-function-not-working/)
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