What's the best WordPress plugin for embedding/executing PHP code?

Question

Hi there.

I have an existing webapp created in PHP and would like to embed some of the PHP code into some WordPress pages.

What's the best WordPress plugin for that?

Answer 1

Pasting PHP code into a plugin isn't a good idea. There are three approaches to embedding PHP scripts into a WordPress site:

• Placing the code directly into a theme's main index template (messy)

• Placing the code into a theme's functions.php file and hooking it into the site using the Plugin API. (cleaner)

• Fully encapsulating the code in a plugin. (cleanest)

Answer 2

A lot of folks use EXEC-PHP. The Exec-PHP plugin executes code in your posts, pages and text widgets. One drawback may be that you will have to disable the WYSIWYG Editor but most people do that anyway.