I am newbie. My basic question is what will be the appropriate location to put the above sample code given? I am not very much familiar with anatomy of wordpress right now. Do I need to create a separate plugin for this or i can put this code in functions.php? Please guide me.

Thanks

The database field is appearing but with an empty value. I can’t figure out where you’re getting the ‘text_string’ value in this line:

echo “”;

This is my first time building anything for wordpress, forgive the silly mistakes. I’m building my own theme. I have a lot of theme settings to add. Near the end of your tut you outlined a way to add more fields etc. I will have a go at that.

Check out my partially finished theme dude: http://programming.wecaribbean.net/

Thanks a million.

Regards,

Mike

The $input variable contains your new settings. The $options variable contains the old settings. You need to merge the new, validated settings into the $options array and then return that.


// add the admin options page
add_action('admin_menu', 'plugin_admin_add_page');
function plugin_admin_add_page() {
add_options_page('Custom Plugin Page', 'Custom Plugin Menu', 'manage_options', 'plugin', 'plugin_options_page');
}

// validate our options
function plugin_options_validate($input) {
$options = get_option('plugin_options');
/*
$options['text_string'] = trim($input['text_string']);
if(!preg_match('/^[a-z0-9]{5}$/i', $options['text_string'])) {
$options['text_string'] = '';
}
*/
return $options;
}



function plugin_options_validate($input) {
$options = get_option('plugin_options');
$options['text_string'] = trim($input['text_string']);
if(!preg_match('/^[a-z0-9]{32}$/i', $options['text_string'])) {
$options['text_string'] = '';
}
return $options;
}