Plugin not usable without separately installing the dotenv package

[anatol06]

Hi! I tried to install but I get Error.
The idea is nice! i would like to get such a functionality for custom posts but to insert all data in one table, in order to have all post data in one line.

[mircobabini]

but to insert all data in one table

What do you mean? Maybe you are looking for MB Custom Table.

[hannahtinkler]

I can see this was some time ago and you may no longer be experiencing this, but if you can explain the error you were seeing I'd be happy to try and help 😄

[benleeth]

@hannahtinkler I'm interested in using this plugin, as I see too much slow down with ACF & CPTs. As soon as I installed the plugin, I was greeted with a 500 error. Log shows -

"NOTICE: PHP message: PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function env() in /var/www/html/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-custom-post-type-tables-master/config.php:9"

Should be a quick fix but perhaps that is what @anatol06 was/is seeing.

[hannahtinkler]

Hi @benleeth,

This was originally written to be used with the Roots stack which includes the dotenv package. This allows use of the function env() to grab environment variables from a .env file (allowing you to customise data which might change depending on whether the app is in UAT, staging production etc such as passwords or keys).

This hasn't been included in the composer.json for this plugin or in the documentation which is an oversight on my part! If you're using a setup that allows you to install composer packages then in the short term I'd suggest installing the dotenv package. In the meantime I'll double check the usage to see if I could get away with using the PHP native getenv() instead, to ensure support for people not using a composer-compatible setup.

[benjibee]

Hi @hannahtinkler thanks for setting up such a clean and elegant solution for this problem! I also don't use Roots for the themes I build, but would really benefit from using this plugin. Since it's only these two lines that break this plugin for non-Roots users, would you consider removing them?

From my understanding the table prefix returned via $wpdb->prefix should also match that used by Roots. This variable is normally defined in wp-config.php as $table_prefix is it not?

[zmayyem]

Hello @hannahtinkler , thanks for sharing this plugin, but I need your help to make it work Please !!

Same error undefined function env() in /var/www/html/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-custom-post-type-tables-master/config.php:9

I dont know if @benjibee find a solution for this but any one can help please ?

Could you please edit the code of the config file to make this work, as well could you please share the (.env) file and where to put it exactly ? on the /www/ directorty or inside the wp-content/plugins/wordpress-custom-post-type-tables directory?