Title: [Plugin: Exec-PHP] Extend PHP Capability for Text Widgets to Other Widgets?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Exec-PHP] Extend PHP Capability for Text Widgets to Other Widgets?

 *  [estetson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/estetson/)
 * (@estetson)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-exec-php-extend-php-capability-for-text-widgets-to-other-widgets/)
 * I have installed the Exec-PHP plugin and found that it works fine for text widgets,
   as it’s supposed to, but it does not work for other widget types that include
   text entry fields.
 * For example, I have the KB Advanced RSS plugin installed on my site, which allows
   me to display headlines and other data from external RSS feeds in a customized
   format. There are fields in this widget where you can enter HTML for custom display
   of data pulled from an RSS feed. To create the specific display features and 
   effects I want, I need to be able to put PHP code in there too, but even with
   the Exec-PHP plugin it doesn’t recognize it.
 * How can I extend Exec-PHP to enable recognition of PHP code in widgets such as
   the KB Advanced RSS widget which, like the normal text widget, allow entry of
   text or HTML?
 * I have tried looking through all the .php files in the Exec-PHP plugin but can’t
   figure out how to extend the plugin to do what I need. Any help would be appreciated!
   Thanks!

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 *  Thread Starter [estetson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/estetson/)
 * (@estetson)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-exec-php-extend-php-capability-for-text-widgets-to-other-widgets/#post-2203376)
 * This is what I already tried adding into the KB Advanced RSS plugin, which failed:
 *     ```
       <?php
       function filter_KB_RSS_output_format($output_format) {
       	ob_start();
       	eval("?>$output_format<?php ");
       	$output_format = ob_get_contents();
       	ob_end_clean();
       	return $output_format;
       }
       add_filter('widget_text', array(&$this, 'filter_KB_RSS_output_format'));
       ?>
       ```
   
 * $output_format is what the KB Advanced RSS plugin uses to store the user-entered
   HTML and code for how to format the display of the RSS feed being accessed.
 * I looked at the existing Exec-PHP plugin code to see how it works, and it uses
   a filter similar to the above.
 * One problem I found out is that the filter ‘widget_text’ can ONLY be used for
   the WordPress Text Widget and apparently cannot be used for other widgets in 
   which users enter fields of text, such as the one I want to modify. So I don’t
   know what filter hook name to use, since there doesn’t seem to be any that will
   work.
 * Also, since I’m a beginner with coding, there might be other problems with the
   code I wrote which I don’t realize.
 * I would very much appreciate any comment from somebody who knows what they’re
   doing. Am I at least on the right track, or is using a filter not the way to 
   accomplish what I want to do?

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 * [kb-advanced-rss](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/kb-advanced-rss/)
 * [text widget](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/text-widget/)

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