I have the following issue. I want to load the Wordpress environment into an external php file. All my work is currently on a localhost and my php code is as follows:
<?php
require("../../wp-blog-header.php");
$admin = do_shortcode("[su_user field='user_email']");
if ($admin === "admin@email.com") {
// Do stuff here
}
else {
echo "<h1>Forbidden.</h1>";
}
This works perfectly fine in my localhost, so I figured that when I upload the file to the server it must work too, given that the file is stored in the same directory as it is locally, hence ../../wp-blog-header.php. Sadly, this does not work. When I echo $admin; the following error appears:
User: user ID is incorrect
I tried using the native Wordpress functions without using the shortcode like this:
<?php global $user_email;
get_currentuserinfo();
echo $user_email;
?>
This does not work either. Is there a more efficient way to load the Wordpress environment into an external php file? Any suggestions on what is happening here? It does not necessarily have to be an e-mail, it could be the user id as well, which I tried and gives me 0.
I forgot to mention, the php file loads and echoes Forbidden together with the error. This makes me believe that the file require("../../wp-blog-header.php") is actually being loaded because when I change the directory I directly get an error that the file is now working/available.
The shortcode works as I have tested it inside a new Page returning the e-mail address of the logged-in user.
UPDATE
My root is:
/var/www/vhosts/test-website.com/httpdocs/
Which I tested with require("/var/www/vhosts/test-website.com/httpdocs/wp-blog-header.php") as well. Still same result. The weird thing is that if I add wp_head() below this line, the header gets loaded. I reformulate my question:
How can I get the current e-mail address of a logged-in user in an external php file?
