WP-Codebox fix so that it doesn’t prevent posts export

May 15, 2010 — Florent Clairambault

If you have a PHP configured with some open_basedir restriction (which is recommended), the WP-Codebox plugin will prevent you from exporting the posts of your blog.

Go to your blog, go in the “wp-content/plugins/wp-codebox” dir and edit the “wp-codebox.php” file :
On line 27, you should have :

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include_once "../../../wp-config.php";
include_once "../../../wp-settings.php";

Well, it fails because the plugin doesn’t use the good practices, so it’s pretty easy to fix :

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require_once( ABSPATH.'/wp-config.php' );
require_once( ABSPATH.'/wp-settings.php' );

I’d like to thank the developer of this plugin for doing such a great job. It brings the power of geshi (not the latest version by the way) into wordpress.

BTW, why change :
* include_once to require_once : Why should we accept that a file couldn’t be included on go on ?
* double quote to simple quote : php reads it faster because it doesn’t parse vars (“$” starting words).
* no parenthesis to parenthesis : Well, it’s a method isn’t it ?
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3 Responses to “WP-Codebox fix so that it doesn’t prevent posts export”

  1. John Says:
    February 8, 2011 at 7:09 am

    Thanks for the post.

    When I use the file option and click on download.txt, I get the following error.

    I have my wp-config installed above my root directory … any thoughts?

    Warning: include_once(../../../wp-config.php) [function.include-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /homepages/xx/xxxxxxxxxx/htdocs/xxxxxxxxxxxx/wp-content/plugins/wp-codebox/wp-codebox.php on line 27

    Warning: include_once() [function.include]: Failed opening ‘../../../wp-config.php’ for inclusion (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php5′) in /homepages/xx/xxxxxxxxxx/htdocs/xxxxxxxxxxxx/wp-content/plugins/wp-codebox/wp-codebox.php on line 27

    Warning: require(ABSPATHwp-includes/load.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /homepages/xx/xxxxxxxxxx/htdocs/xxxxxxxxxxxx/wp-settings.php on line 19

    Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘ABSPATHwp-includes/load.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php5′) in /homepages/xx/xxxxxxxxxx/htdocs/xxxxxxxxxxxx/wp-settings.php on line 19

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  2. fix wp-codebox to solve the export error - Robert's DBA Road Says:
    March 18, 2011 at 3:50 am

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  3. baallord Says:
    March 18, 2011 at 3:52 am

    thank you! it helps.

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